QE lead

Quality Engineering Lead

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Maintain an automation-first mindset and approach.
• Primary point of contact for the QE team and responsible for all QE deliverables
• Enforce testing best practices and guide the team to follow those standards.
• Finds opportunities for automation in lieu of manual testing and enforces the Automation First, Contract First approach.
• Design & develop test automation frameworks and customize test automation framework on project needs.
• Understand and follow business requirements, identify gaps in the business requirements, advice the client accordingly and helps the team in covering all business use cases.
• Able to define test strategy and leads the team in implementing it.
• Guide QEs on test plan, approach, tools, and test automation scripting needs.
• Identify, define, and manage tools and processes for the team.
• Mentor team members on Scrum and Agile framework.
• Effectively use and guide the team on test management tool (test design, execution, reporting, traceability matrix)
• Assist in implementation of the test management tool within the team.
• Establish, generate, and publish test execution & bug reports, testing metrics, trends etc.
• Effectively use and guide the team on defect management process (Create, set priority/severity, retest, close, root cause analysis, defect prevention)
• Guide team members on identifying the root cause of bugs (e.g. API/BE, data, UI, logs, or environment issues etc.)
• Generate and guide team members on bug metrics and reports.
• Coordinate bug triage between business, dev, and test teams across all kinds of bugs.
• Drive and train team members to execute automated test cases (happy path, edge cases, negative, complex business scenarios) for browser-based or mobile applications.
• Drive and train team members to create and execute test cases (happy path, edge cases, negative, complex business scenarios) for REST or SOAP APIs.
• Train team members to write and execute complex SQL queries and commands.
• Lead internal team meetings and drive communication with clients.
• Actively participate in client meetings, project-wide reviews of requirements, system architecture and detailed design documents 
• Manage and perform load and stress tests using enterprise level test automation tools.    
• Manage, lead, and maintain physical, virtualized, and simulated test environments.

Required Skills: 

• Experience in designing and developing a new test automation framework from scratch using a test automation tool like Playwright/JavaScript/TypeScript or /Selenium/Cucumber/Java or Selenium/C#.net/Spec Flow or similar frameworks.
• Hands-on experience in software testing and writing test automation code in at least one programming or scripting language (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C# and/or Python) and guide team members on technical front.
• Hands-on experience in developing and executing test scripts for REST or SOAP based APIs.
• Experience in intercepting and mocking complex HTTP API calls in UI and API tests.
• Experience in writing and guiding teams on complex end-to-end tests automation.
• Experience on test management and defect tracking tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, HP ALM, etc.
• Experience in driving defect management strategy (create, set priority/severity, retest, close, traceability, reporting etc.)
• Experience in driving the team to implement automated test suites for all testing types (unit, component, API, UI, UAT, E2E, etc.)
• Hands-on experience in writing and executing complex SQL queries and understands concepts like indexing, schemas, views, etc.
• Experience in training team members to understand version control concepts.
• Perform lead-level automation code review as a required approver.
• Experience in guiding the team on version control concepts, tools and hands-on experience on commands and operations (like commit, fetch, push, pull, squash, resolve merge conflicts etc.)
• Experience in establishing branching strategy and best practices for automation code review process (in coordinate with Engg. lead, DevSecOps)
• Hands-on experience on at least one of the performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, K6, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, etc.).
• Experience in analyzing performance testing requirements and implementation of load, stress, endurance, volume testing etc.
• Experience in leading the team on CI/CD pipeline implementation for automated tests suites. (in coordination with DevSecOps team)
• Experience in creating test plan for accessibility and security testing.
• Hands-on experience on cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Understanding of Gen AI, Gen AI tools (e.g., GitHub CoPilot) and experience in leveraging Gen AI in quality engineering space.
• Language requirement: English

Preferred Skills:

• Mobile test automation development is a big plus.
• Experience leading and working with cross-functional teams in fast-growing environment.
• Strong organizational skills and eager to tackle new challenges.
• Experience planning, designing, and implementing testing strategies and automation infrastructure for large scale system software.

Required Qualifications: 

•    At least one (4) year of experience using a test automation tool like Selenium/Cucumber/ Java or Selenium/C#.net/Spec Flow/Rest assured or similar frameworks.

•    Hands-on experience in software testing and writing software testing automation- UI, API

•    Experience in messaging systems (AMQ, WMQ or Kafka) 

•    Hands on experience in at least one performance testing tool 

•    Deep level of knowledge in test plans, test automation design, frameworks, and iterative development

•    Experience with and can explain what Behavior-Driven Design (BDD) is and how the Cucumber (or similar) testing framework is used.