About the role
Responsibilities:
- Quality Engineering and Test Leadership: Define and implement end-to-end QA strategy for UI, API, backend, platform, and integrations and Lead functional, regression, integration, security, and performance testing activities.
- Automation Framework Ownership: Build and enhance automation frameworks for Selenium/ Playwright (React UI) and API automation (Django-based APIs). Reduce regression cycle time by maximising automation coverage.
- Release Quality Governance: Ensure all sprint releases, patches, and production go-lives meet quality benchmarks. Validate stability of features integrated with Big Data pipelines, AI modules, and platform operations.
- Defect Management and RCA: Lead defect triage, prioritisation, and RCA-driven continuous improvement to ensure all critical defects are resolved before deployment. AI Workflow Validation: Ensure end-to-end validation of data ingestion to data visualisation workflows.
- Collaboration with Cross-Functional Team: Work closely with Platform Engineering, AI Engineering, Software Engineering, and delivery teams to support production go-live validations.
- Documentation and Compliance: Maintain test plans, test cases, release notes, and QA compliance documents and ensure standardisation of QA processes and audit readiness.
Requirements:
- Proficiency in Selenium / Playwright / Cypress for React UI testing.
- Experience with Postman and Newman for API testing.
- Good to have Python for Django backend validation.
- Knowledge of Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong experience in JIRA or equivalent test management tool.
- Expertise in defect RCA, risk-based testing, and quality metrics.
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum testing processes.
Skills - Additional:
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, microservices testing, containers.
- Experience in performance testing tools (JMeter, Locust).
- Understanding of React, Django, REST frameworks.
- Experience testing AI/ML workflows is an added advantage.
- ISTQB or equivalent QA certification is an advantage.
Education:
- UG: BE/B. Tech - IT/CS.
- PG: M. Tech/MCA - IT/CS.
Experience / Skill Level:
- 5 years of experience in QA and Test Automation.
- Experience leading QA cycles for enterprise platforms.
- Strong UI + API automation background (React + Django environment preferred).
- Ability to guide junior QA engineers and own release-level quality.