QA Lead | Offshore

Job Description:

As a QA Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing the quality assurance process and ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of quality and reliability. You will lead a team of QA engineers, define testing strategies, and implement best practices to identify and prevent defects throughout the software development lifecycle.
Responsibilities:

- Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers, providing guidance and support in all aspects of quality assurance.

- Develop and implement QA processes, procedures, and standards to ensure consistency and efficiency.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements and develop comprehensive test plans.

- Design, execute, and automate test cases to validate functionality, performance, and scalability of software applications.

- Identify and prioritize areas for test automation, and develop automated test scripts using appropriate tools and frameworks.

- Establish and maintain test environments and test data sets to support ongoing testing activities.

- Monitor and analyze test results, identify defects and track them to resolution using bug tracking systems.

- Participate in release planning and deployment activities, ensuring that quality objectives are met for each release.

- Conduct root cause analysis of defects and work with development teams to implement corrective and preventive actions.

- Stay current with industry trends and best practices in software quality assurance.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

- Proven experience in software quality assurance, including at least 2 years in a leadership role.

- Strong understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and processes.

- Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, JUnit, TestNG).

- Proficiency in programming/scripting languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript.

- Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.

- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.

- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies is a plus.

- ISTQB or other relevant certifications are desirable but not required.

Originally posted on Himalayas