QA Lead

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Job Title: Quality Assurance Lead

Location: Beijing

Employment Type: Full Time

The job

The QA Lead is responsible for driving product quality initiatives across the China HMI product portfolio. This role leads test planning, test execution coordination, test infrastructure development, and test automation enablement to ensure products are delivered with high quality and predictable release readiness.

The QA Lead works closely with Development, Product Management, DevOps, and Global QA teams to establish scalable testing practices, improve test efficiency, and continuously enhance product quality.

Responsibilities

• Own overall test strategy, test planning, and quality assurance activities for China HMI products.

• Coordinate and prioritize testing resources across HMI, SCADA, Historian, and related products to support development and release schedules.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive test plans, test reports, quality metrics, and release quality assessments.

• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve automated testing capabilities, including functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.

• Build and manage testing infrastructure, test environments, test devices, and automation platforms to improve testing efficiency and coverage.

• Collaborate with Development and DevOps teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and release processes.

• Monitor product quality indicators, identify quality risks, and drive corrective actions before product release.

• Define and track quality KPIs, including test coverage, automation coverage, defect leakage, defect turnaround time, and release quality metrics.

• Drive root cause analysis of major defects and promote continuous quality improvement initiatives.

• Collaborate with Global QA and Product teams to align testing processes, standards, and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Automation, or a related discipline.

• 5+ years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, quality engineering, or software development.

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), software testing methodologies, and quality assurance practices.

• Experience creating test plans, test strategies, test reports, and release quality assessments.

• Experience coordinating testing activities across multiple teams and products.

• Familiarity with test automation frameworks and automated testing practices.

• Experience with CI/CD environments and integration of automated testing into release pipelines.

• Strong defect analysis, troubleshooting, and risk assessment skills.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Good written and spoken English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience as QA Lead, Quality Engineering Lead, Test Architect, or Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET).

• Experience building and maintaining automated test infrastructure and testing platforms.

• Hands-on experience with UI automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or equivalent frameworks.

• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman or equivalent technologies.

• Experience integrating automated testing into Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar CI/CD systems.

• Experience developing automated test frameworks using C#, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or similar languages.

• Experience testing industrial software products such as HMI, SCADA, Historian, MES, or Industrial IoT solutions.

• Experience defining and implementing engineering quality metrics and dashboards.

R&D at AVEVA

Our global team of 2000+ developers work on an incredibly diverse portfolio of over 75 industrial automation and engineering products, which cover everything from data management to 3D design. AI and cloud are at the centre of our strategy, and we have over 150 patents to our name.

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