Software Development Lead - Quality Assurance

Software Development Lead

• Management Level: 09 – Specialist/Team Lead

• Location: Hyderabad

• Must have skills: Manual & Automation Testing, Selenium / TestNG / JUnit, API Testing (Postman / REST Assured), Defect Tracking (JIRA / Bugzilla), SDLC & STLC Knowledge, and CI/CD Tools (Jenkins / Git).

• Good to have skills: Performance Testing (JMeter / LoadRunner), Security Testing, Database Testing (SQL), Cloud Testing (AWS / Azure), Scripting Languages (Python / Java), and Knowledge of AI/ML or Automation Framework Design.

• Experience: 5+ years of experience is required

• Educational Qualification: BTech / BE

Job Overview

The Technology QA Specialist/Team Lead leads quality assurance strategy and execution for technology solutions, ensuring products meet functional, performance, and reliability standards. This role manages QA teams, defines testing processes, collaborates with engineering and product teams, and drives continuous improvement in software quality across the development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of testers and being responsible for the quality of their work

• Creating and executing functional test plans and test cases, both manual and automated testing for web applications, and performing regression testing.

• Identifying and documenting defects

• Tracking Quality Assurance metrics (e.g. defect density, open defect count)

• Execute Manual and Automation test scripts

• Participating in daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives

• Coordinating with other teams to ensure the timely delivery of quality software products

• Tracking and logging defects during execution

• Identify and test for functional 'edge cases' outside of the expected workflow

• Creating and executing functional test plans and test cases, both manual and automated testing for web applications, and performing regression testing.