Quality Assurance Lead

About the role

The Quality Assurance Lead will head a growing QA team, championing high‑quality standards across the software development lifecycle. You will design testing strategies, drive automation, and ensure releases meet rigorous quality and security criteria.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop the QA team while promoting best practices.
• Define and implement QA strategies, processes, and testing methodologies.
• Review business and technical requirements to guarantee full test coverage.
• Design, develop and execute test plans, cases and scenarios for functional, integration, regression, system, smoke, API, performance and UAT testing.
• Build, maintain and enhance automated test frameworks.
• Collaborate with Development, Product Owners, Business Analysts and DevOps throughout the SDLC.
• Identify, track, prioritize and verify defects until closure, performing root‑cause analysis.
• Generate QA metrics, dashboards and quality reports for management.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement and release planning.
• Support CI/CD implementation and testing automation within deployment pipelines.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or related field.
• 4–5 years of hands‑on QA experience, including manual and automation testing.
• Previous experience leading QA activities or mentoring engineers.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced Agile environment.

Required skills

• Manual and Automation Testing
• API testing tools (Postman, Swagger)
• ALM tools (JIRA, Azure DevOps)
• SQL and database testing
• Version control (Git)
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
• REST APIs and microservices architecture
• Agile/Scrum methodologies