Job description
Experience: 6–10 Years Employment Type: Full-Time Role Overview We are looking for a highly skilled and proactive QA Lead to lead end-to-end quality assurance strategy across web and API-based applications. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in automation testing (Playwright), performance testing, Angular frontend validation, NestJS backend validation, and API testing, along with proven leadership experience in Agile environments.
Key Responsibilities
- QA Leadership & Strategy
- Define and implement overall QA strategy, test approach, and quality metrics.
- Lead, mentor, and manage QA team members.
- Establish test coverage standards across UI, API, and performance layers.
- Drive shift-left testing and automation-first mindset.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams.
- Automation Testing (Playwright – Mandatory)
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript).
- Implement CI/CD-integrated automation suites.
- Ensure cross-browser and cross-device automation coverage.
- Improve automation coverage, reliability, and execution speed.
- Conduct code reviews for automation scripts.
- Frontend Testing (Angular)
- Validate Angular-based web applications.
- Test UI components, forms, routing, and state management.
- Perform functional, regression, and integration testing.
- Validate frontend performance, responsiveness, and usability.
- Backend & API Testing (NestJS)
- Test RESTful APIs developed using NestJS.
- Validate request/response contracts, authentication, and error handling.
- Perform schema validation and business logic validation.
- Use tools such as Postman or automated API frameworks.
- Performance Testing
- Design and execute performance and load testing strategies.
- Identify bottlenecks and scalability issues.
- Work with engineering teams to improve system performance.
- Experience with tools such as JMeter or k6.
- Quality Governance & Metrics
- Define QA KPIs and quality dashboards.
- Track defect leakage, test coverage, automation percentage, and release quality index.
- Ensure release sign-off compliance.
- Conduct RCA for production issues.
Required Skills
& Experience
- 6+ years in Software Testing with 2+ years in QA Lead role.
- Strong hands-on experience in Playwright automation framework development.
- Experience testing Angular applications.
- Strong API testing experience (REST APIs, authentication flows).
- Experience testing NestJS-based backend systems.
- Experience in performance testing tools (JMeter/k6/etc.).
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Key KPIs (Measurable)
- Automation coverage ≥ 80% for critical flows.
- Defect leakage < 5%.
- CI automation pass rate ≥ 95%.
- Performance baseline compliance before release.
- Year-over-year reduction in defect density.
Requirements
6–10 Years Employment Type: Full-Time Role Overview We are looking for a highly skilled and proactive QA Lead to lead end-to-end quality assurance strategy across web and API-based applications. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in automation testing (Playwright), performance testing, Angular frontend validation, NestJS backend validation, and API testing, along with proven leadership experience in Agile environments.
Key Responsibilities
- QA Leadership & Strategy
- Define and implement overall QA strategy, test approach, and quality metrics.
- Lead, mentor, and manage QA team members.
- Establish test coverage standards across UI, API, and performance layers.
- Drive shift-left testing and automation-first mindset.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams.
- Automation Testing (Playwright – Mandatory)
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript).
- Implement CI/CD-integrated automation suites.
- Ensure cross-browser and cross-device automation coverage.
- Improve automation coverage, reliability, and execution speed.
- Conduct code reviews for automation scripts.
- Frontend Testing (Angular)
- Validate Angular-based web applications.
- Test UI components, forms, routing, and state management.
- Perform functional, regression, and integration testing.
- Validate frontend performance, responsiveness, and usability.
- Backend & API Testing (NestJS)
- Test RESTful APIs developed using NestJS.
- Validate request/response contracts, authentication, and error handling.
- Perform schema validation and business logic validation.
- Use tools such as Postman or automated API frameworks.
- Performance Testing
- Design and execute performance and load testing strategies.
- Identify bottlenecks and scalability issues.
- Work with engineering teams to improve system performance.
- Experience with tools such as JMeter or k6.
- Quality Governance & Metrics
- Define QA KPIs and quality dashboards.
- Track defect leakage, test coverage, automation percentage, and release quality index.
- Ensure release sign-off compliance.
- Conduct RCA for production issues.
Required Skills
& Experience
- 6+ years in Software Testing with 2+ years in QA Lead role.
- Strong hands-on experience in Playwright automation framework development.
- Experience testing Angular applications.
- Strong API testing experience (REST APIs, authentication flows).
- Experience testing NestJS-based backend systems.
- Experience in performance testing tools (JMeter/k6/etc.).
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Key KPIs (Measurable)
- Automation coverage ≥ 80% for critical flows.
- Defect leakage < 5%.
- CI automation pass rate ≥ 95%.
- Performance baseline compliance before release.
- Year-over-year reduction in defect density.