- Lead the design, development and implementation of comprehensive test strategies that align with project and business goals, technical requirement and quality standards.

- Lead Quality Engineering initiatives for a portfolio and strategize the transition from traditional quality assurance approach to quality engineering practices.

- Expert in planning testing for both manual and automation in the following areas Progression, Regression, Integration, E2E, Accessibility, POS , Load & Performance, Security.

- Design E2E test automation tools and solutions to ensure testing efficiency across multiple platforms and domains.

- Design mobile application testing frameworks ensuring optimal quality for both iOS and Android platforms.

- Implement measures to support effectively automated CI/CD pipelines to improve release cycles with a perspective of shift left approach.

- Champion testing best practices across the organization.

- Provide technical leadership to the team and make sure best practices are continuously followed and evolved.

- Expertise in defining KPIs for measuring quality.

- Establishing standard reporting mechanisms to track effectiveness of testing and success of test automation.

- Drive innovation by introducing emerging QA tools and technologies, leveraging AI-driven test automation solutions.

- Familiarity with devising a test strategy for testing on-prem or cloud POS systems, hardware and peripheral devices.

- Familiarity with setting up and maintaining an org wide QA lab for testing.

Qualifications :

- 15+ years of experience in software testing with at least 6-7 years of experience in Test Architecture and a leadership role.

- Proven expertise in QA transformation initiatives and building high-performing QA solutions.

- Strong understanding of software development process and methodologies like Agile, Scrum and Sprint ceremonies etc.

- Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with high-demand popular automation tools like Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Playwright etc.

- Hands-on experience in Integration Test Automation with CICD tools like Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps etc and the process to setup a pipeline.

- Proficiency in at least a couple of programming languages like Java, Python, Java/Type Script.

- Familiarity with cloud based testing environments and tools like AWS, Azure, BrowserStack.

- Solid knowledge of APIs (Postman, Swagger, RestAssured), microservices, databases and cloud platforms.

- Strongly skilled in solving critical problems, identifying and analysing gaps, collaborating effectively with business and technical teams and be a QA consultant for stakeholders.

- Knowledge on Gen AI testing tools (added advantage).

- Knowledge on no/low code tools (added advantage).