Position: QA Lead

As a QA Lead, your mission is to foster a strong quality assurance mindset across the team. You’ll play a key role in interpreting both business goals and technical specifications to ensure that software products meet high standards before release. You will partner closely with UI/UX Designers, Product Owners, Developers, and other stakeholders to deeply understand project needs and translate them into structured testing activities. This includes crafting test strategies, building test plans, and recommending a smart balance between manual and automated test coverage.

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead and guide a QA team of 10+ members, offering both technical direction and professional mentorship.

• Take part in team growth through recruiting, onboarding, and assigning clear responsibilities to scale QA operations effectively.

• Define and continuously improve test strategies for features, releases, and larger-scale projects.

• Establish a strong team setup with well-defined roles and clear accountability.

• Conduct regular 1:1 meetings and performance reviews, encouraging career development and motivation.

• Communicate test results, bug reports, and overall testing progress transparently to relevant teams.

• Evaluate test outcomes and deliver detailed quality assessments with GO/NO GO decisions for each delivery.

• Work closely with developers by supplying checklists or test cases for self-verification before builds reach the QA team.

• Demonstrate a proactive and hands-on approach to solving problems and delivering outcomes.

• Stay focused on execution and fast delivery while keeping quality in check.

• Promote continuous improvement and innovation in testing practices and QA workflows.

What You Bring:

• At least 3 years of proven leadership in QA, including managing a team of 10+ engineers and driving team improvements.

• 8+ years of solid hands-on QA experience, covering both manual and automated testing across mobile, web, and backend/API systems.

• Proficiency in setting up and maintaining automation frameworks using tools such as Appium, Playwright, and WebdriverIO.

• Deep understanding of QA methodologies, testing processes, and software lifecycle.

• Ability to analyze both functional and non-functional requirements effectively.

• Experience with bug tracking systems (e.g., Jira) and test management tools (e.g., TestRail, Zephyr).

• A self-motivated mindset with the ability to work independently and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.

• Openness to learning, adapting, and being coached to enhance performance and impact.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

• Collaborate actively with developers and product owners to plan test strategies, create manual test cases, and make informed release decisions.

• Achieve a monthly test workload equivalent to 60–70 story points (1 point = 2 hours of QA effort).

• Detect more than 5 valid and critical bugs each month.

• Design and document 100+ manual test cases monthly.

• Develop automated test scripts for stable features.

• Deliver a minimum of 10 automated test cases per month.