Software Quality Assurance Lead

As the Team Lead for Software Quality Management, you will be responsible for leading a team of Quality Assurance (QA) professionals, overseeing all aspects of software testing and quality assurance processes. Your role will involve providing leadership, guidance, and technical expertise to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive process improvements, implement best practices, and mitigate risks throughout the software development lifecycle.

Role Requirements:
You are expected to have industry-leading technical abilities that enable you to significantly improve product quality. You should have a combination of:

• Solid in-depth knowledge of Quality Assurance Concepts
• Excellent solid understanding of the operating system software, as well as knowledge of object-oriented design principles.
• You will spend efforts studying and designing the new methodologies and techniques to facilitate testing, including the state-of-art Machine Learning and Deep Learning methods.
• Hands-on experience in both manual and automated testing methodologies, with a strong understanding of testing frameworks and tools.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, you will join the team of hands-on, passionate, and seasoned SQM professionals developing innovative consumer-centric testing solutions. In this role, you will:

• Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers, and testers providing direction, support, and guidance to achieve team objectives.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture, promoting continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and professional development opportunities.
• Establish clear goals, expectations, and performance metrics for the QA team, and monitor progress towards achieving them.
• Lead by example by being hands-on in both manual and automated testing, actively participating in test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Develop test plans and test cases
• Develop Automation test harness and automate tests using internal and open source tools & infrastructure
• Find, isolate, document, regress, and track bugs through to a resolution
• Interpret and report testing results, and be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process
• Engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design, and develop innovative consumer products.
• Need to have hunger of continuously searching for better and more efficient test solutions, and an instinct for continuous invention and innovation.
• Have the opportunity to propose improvements to our existing processes and automated tools in order to improve the team’s speed, quality and efficiency. Be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. You will need to be able to work efficiently and effectively in a fun, fast-paced dynamic team environment.

Basic qualifications

• Experience in manual testing and automated testing
• 6 year of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar technical field.
• 6 years of experience in automation development and testing using Postman, and Playwright 2 or Cypress 3 or similar technology, experience in automating the test cases for embedded software.
• Proficiency in test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright, and proficiency in languages such as Java, C# or JavaScript.
• Familiarity with security testing methodologies, including OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) testing principles and tools.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong understanding of industry standard test automation tools and experience developing product test harnesses
• Experience with Android, iOS or other mobile application development or testing
• Strong experience in C#, Cypress and Playwright
• Experience with open source tools and resources
• Experience working closely with development and business teams.