Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Job Location
Chennai, India
Vacancy
1
Designation
Automation Test Lead
Job Type
ONSITE
Job Description
Job Description
- Lead QA strategy across squads using shift-left, risk-based testing, BDD/TDD, and contract testing approaches
- Define testing standards, governance models, and quality metrics (readiness gates, defect SLAs, QA OKRs)
- Own end-to-end automation strategy covering UI, API, component, and regression suites integrated with CI/CD
- Maintain test architecture roadmap including frameworks, environments, test data, and observability
- Ensure comprehensive functional and non-functional test coverage
- Plan and execute performance, scalability, resilience, and security testing
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Compliance teams to balance quality, risk, and speed
- Provide dashboards, release readiness reports, and recommendations to leadership
- Lead and mentor multidisciplinary QA teams (automation, functional, performance, security)
- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and incident reviews
- Coach squads on acceptance criteria, testability, and Definition of Ready/Done
- Strong leadership in QA strategy, governance, and automation frameworks
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript or Python
- Strong SQL skills (MySQL, PostgreSQL) for backend and data validation
- Hands-on experience with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, REST Assured
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum, DevOps, and shift-left practices
- Knowledge of performance and security testing tools (JMeter/k6, OWASP ZAP)
- Experience with Git, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines
- Exposure to AWS cloud and Kubernetes for test environment management
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills
- 10+ years in QA/testing with 3+ years leading centralized or cross-product testing teams
- Proven experience driving enterprise automation strategies
- Experience managing large QA teams in Agile environments
- Hands-on background in automation, performance, and security testing
- Experience supporting cloud-based test infrastructures
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