Total Experience: 8+ years
Location: Pune, Hadapsar, Magarpatta City
Work Model: Hybrid – 3 days Work from office
Key Responsibilities:
- Leads QA efforts to ensure products meet customer requirements
- Works effectively in Agile environments
- Brings strong DevOps knowledge and hands-on experience
- Builds and maintains automated testing for web applications
- Stays current with industry trends to improve testing practices
- Reviews requirements and provides clear, timely feedback
- Defines and executes test strategies, including UAT, to ensure high-quality releases
- Creates clear test plans and test cases
- Collaborates with engineering and product teams to refine requirements
- Sets and promotes QA best practices, standards, and processes
- Leads, mentors, and grows QA team members
- Owns the QA roadmap aligned to business and product goals
- Tracks quality metrics and drives continuous improvement
- Leads quality reviews, risk assessments, and release readiness decisions
- Ensures consistent automation and quality practices across products
- Promotes a strong culture of quality, accountability, and learning
Must-have Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Web Systems, or related field—or equivalent QA experience
- 8+ years of QA experience, including 2+ years in a leadership/people management role
- Strong knowledge of software testing best practices, methodologies (white/black box, integration), and QA processes (system, acceptance, regression testing
- Proficiency in JavaScript, Python, jQuery, or similar technologies, with experience designing and implementing automated testing frameworks (e.g., Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, PyTest)
- Experience testing APIs and working with XML, XSD, JSON, REST, and SOAP
- Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD, and tools such as JIRA, GitHub, and Jenkins
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including cloud-native services (e.g., EKS, ECR)
- Experience testing modern applications, including AI/LLM-based features, and using AI assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot) to accelerate automation
- Experience testing security scenarios and partnering with Security teams on automated scans (e.g., container scans, TPS scans)
- Strong ability to design test scenarios and create detailed, repeatable test cases (functional and data-driven) while managing multiple complex projects
- Proven experience leading QA teams, scaling automation, standardizing processes, and influencing product/engineering decisions through data and risk analysis