Quality Assurance Lead – SDET, Java​/API Testing

Responsibilities

• Lead QA strategy, planning, and execution across multiple projects and agile teams
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to onshore and offshore QA teams
• Design, develop, and maintain robust automation frameworks for UI and API testing
• Act as a hands‑on contributor in test automation development using Java-based frameworks
• Drive quality engineering practices aligned with SDET principles (shift-left, CI/CD integration, test‑driven development)
• Collaborate with development, product, and Dev Ops teams to ensure high-quality deliverables
• Define and track quality metrics, test coverage, and defect trends
• Support continuous integration pipelines by integrating automated tests into CI/CD workflows
• Ensure test environments, test data management, and execution strategies are optimized

• Proven experience as a QA Lead / SDET Lead in enterprise environments
• Experience leading or coordinating work across onshore and offshore teams
• Strong programming experience in Java
• Solid expertise in API testing (RESTful services, tools/frameworks, automation)
• Hands‑on automation experience with Selenium with Cucumber or Selenium with Karate
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling automation frameworks from scratch
• Deep understanding of SDET practices and quality engineering principles
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops, or similar)
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Bachelor's degree