Test Team Lead (QA & Automation)

We are hiring a Test Team Lead (QA and Automation) for our web application, covering functional, automation, and performance testing. The role is a mix of leading a small QA team and hands-on testing. Let me know if you have any questions. Request you to share relevant profiles.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for guiding and coaching the QA team: planning sprint work, assigning tasks, tracking progress, removing blockers, and giving clear feedback to help team members grow.
• Own the quality of assigned modules end-to-end, get involved from requirements to release, and give a data-backed go/no-go view on release readiness.
• Build a simple, practical test strategy and prioritize testing by risk and business impact: what to test, what to automate, and what to skip.
• Set up and run regular calls with product, developers, and other stakeholders (planning, status, release readiness), and escalate issues early.
• Prioritize bugs by severity and impact, make sure critical bugs are fixed first, and run root-cause analysis on escaped defects to fix process gaps.
• Define and track testing KPIs (defect leakage, automation coverage, requirement-to-test coverage, flaky test rate, and bug fix time).
• Use AI tools (e. g., ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot) across the testing process: drafting and reviewing test cases, generating test data, finding coverage gaps, summarizing bugs, and validating results. Guide the team to always check AI output before trusting it.
• Stay hands-on with functional, regression, exploratory, API (e. g., Postman), and performance (JMeter) testing, and build automation using Playwright (or similar tools)
• Test AI features such as the chatbot, checking answers for relevance, tone, and handling of tricky or out-of-scope questions.

Requirements:

• Must have: 2+ years in automation testing and 1+ year leading a team.
• Experience with Jira, Playwright, or similar tools.
• Strong communication and decision-making skills.