# Group Engineering Lead - QA & Automation

As a Group Engineering Leader - Quality, for the Player Experience pillar, you will automate, validate and ship software with AI as an important part of how you work, reporting to the Head of Engineering. Responsibilities: Lead and grow a large, distributed QA team across manual testing, automation, API, performance, and specialist testing. Set a portfolio-wide quality strategy, standards, release gates, and clear ownership across teams. Drive a pragmatic shift from manual-heavy regression to automation, prioritising high-value, repeatable tests. Own the Playwright strategy: framework design, coding standards, reusable components, test data, environments, reporting, and CI/CD integration. Ensure coverage spans UI, API, integration, regression, and critical end-to-end journeys. Work with engineering, product, architecture, and delivery leaders to build quality in from requirements and design through production. Use risk-based testing and business impact to guide test depth, release readiness, and escalation decisions. Establish useful quality measures such as escaped defects, automation reliability and coverage, regression cycle time, and release risk. Improve flaky-test managemen

- **Id**: 4215915
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/entainindia-group-engineering-lead-qa-automation>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hyderabad, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 14
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T02:36:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T02:36:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2772
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 48358
- **Name**: Entainindia
- **Domain**: entainindia.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/entainindia>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Playwright** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 14
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T02:36:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:2, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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