Lead QA Engineer

QA Lead. About the Role. Location: India. Company: Siemens Energy. Business Unit: Digital Core / Fleet Operations Management Applications. Full / Part Time: Full-time. Experience Level: Experienced Professional / Team LeadA Snapshot of Your Day. As a QA Lead, you will drive quality excellence across Siemens Energy's digital products by leading end-to-end testing, automation initiatives, and quality governance activities.

Your day begins by collaborating with Product Owners, Developers, Architects, and DevOps teams to align testing priorities with sprint and release objectives.You will mentor QA engineers, review testing strategies, oversee automation execution, and proactively address quality risks that may impact business outcomes. Leveraging modern quality engineering practices and AI-powered testing capabilities, you will ensure scalable, reliable, and efficient validation of web, mobile, API, and enterprise applications.

Working in a dynamic Agile environment, you will champion continuous improvement, strengthen release confidence, and help deliver secure, high-quality digital solutions that support Siemens Energy's transformation journey.How You'll Make an Impact. Define and execute quality strategies, test plans, release validation approaches, and quality gates across complex software programs.

Lead and mentor QA engineers while driving best practices in manual testing, automation, quality engineering, and continuous improvement.Govern automation frameworks and testing processes, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines.Leverage AI-driven testing capabilities to improve test design, defect analysis, quality insights, and automation efficiency.

Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality releases and improve overall delivery predictability.Identify, assess, and mitigate quality risks through proactive testing, defect management, and root-cause analysis.Provide quality metrics, release readiness assessments, and recommendations to stakeholders and leadership teams.

What You Bring. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, MCA, or a related discipline.10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, including both manual and automation testing across enterprise applications.Proven experience leading QA teams, test delivery, automation initiatives, and release management activities.

Strong expertise in test strategy, automation frameworks, API testing, performance testing, and Agile software delivery.Hands-on experience with modern testing tools such as Playwright, Appium, Selenium, REST Assured, JMeter, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and related technologies.Experience leveraging AI-powered testing solutions and implementing modern quality engineering practices.

Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.Ability to thrive in a global, collaborative, and fast-paced Agile environment.About the Team. The Fleet Operations Management Applications team develops and supports mission-critical digital solutions that enable operational excellence across Siemens Energy.

Working within a global Agile organization, the team brings together product, engineering, architecture, and quality professionals to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable software solutions. Quality engineering plays a critical role in ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and customer satisfaction.

Who is Siemens Energy?At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With more than 100,000 dedicated employees, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy:https://www.

siemens-energy.com/employeevideo. Our Commitment to Diversity. Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion, and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.

We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.Rewards/Benefits. All employees are automatically covered under Medical Insurance. Company-paid considerable family floater cover covering employee, spouse, and 2 dependent children up to 25 years of age.Siemens Energy provides an option to opt for a Meal Card to all its employees, as per the terms and conditions prescribed in the company policy, as part of CTC and as a tax-saving measure.

Flexi Pay empowers employees with the choice to customize the amount in selected salary components within a defined range, thereby optimizing tax benefits. Accordingly, each employee can determine the best possible net income from the same fixed individual base pay on a monthly basis.Opportunities to work with a global team and lead innovative digital transformation initiatives.

Opportunities for professional and personal development through the Siemens Energy Learning Platform.https://jobs.siemens-energy.com/jobs