- Lead QA efforts for Bolt v2, ensuring all modules adhere to performance, reliability, scalability, and security standards.

- Own the overall quality strategy across pods, ensuring alignment with engineering and product goals.

- Mentor junior QA engineers and guide them in best practices, test planning, and execution.

Test Planning & Execution :

- Design, implement, and maintain detailed test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and regression suites.

- Perform manual, functional, regression, integration, and system testing where required.

- Develop and maintain automation scripts for web applications, APIs, and backend services.

- Ensure comprehensive test coverage across features, workflows, and edge cases.

Collaboration & Agile Processes :

- Work closely with engineering, product management, and UI/UX teams to define acceptance criteria and quality standards from the initial planning stages.

- Participate in sprint planning, grooming, and design discussions to ensure testability and quality checkpoints.

- Communicate testing progress, risks, and blockers to stakeholders in a timely manner.

Test Automation & Tools :

- Identify suitable frameworks, tools, and technologies to enhance automation coverage and testing speed.

- Build, maintain, and optimize automation frameworks for UI and API testing.

- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous testing.

Process Improvement & Documentation :

- Establish QA best practices, playbooks, and guidelines to improve testing consistency and efficiency across pods.

- Create and maintain detailed documentation for test plans, processes, and automation frameworks.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce defects, improve test coverage, and enhance product quality.

Performance & Reliability Testing :

- Conduct performance, load, stress, and endurance testing to ensure system robustness.

- Analyze system metrics, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with engineering teams for improvements.

Required Skills & Qualifications :

- 5 - 8 years of experience in software testing, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead QA role.

- Strong experience in designing test cases, test strategies, and quality processes.

- Hands-on experience in UI and API testing.

- Strong expertise in automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit, or similar.

- Experience with API testing tools such as Postman, RestAssured, or similar.

- Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Java, or JavaScript for automation development.

- Solid understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines.

- Experience working with performance testing tools like JMeter, Locust, or Gatling is a plus.

- Strong analytical skills, debugging capabilities, and attention to detail.

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience testing large-scale distributed systems or SaaS platforms.

- Knowledge of microservices architecture and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

- Experience with version control systems like Git.

- Exposure to monitoring tools (Grafana, Kibana, New Relic) for analyzing test results