Team Lead - QA - QL
The Hackett Group India
Business Consulting and Services · 501-1,000 employees
About the role
Lead the QA team in coordinating test planning, release signoff, and defect triage while enforcing quality standards across the application portfolio. Execute test plans, validate complex business workflows, and perform production validation to ensure release readiness.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires 6-10 years of experience in QA or software testing with demonstrated leadership capabilities. Candidates must possess strong SQL skills and experience testing RESTful APIs, backend services, and database-driven workflows.
Full description
Essential Skills
Job
- 6-10 years of experience in QA, software testing, or quality engineering for enterprise web applications, with demonstrated QA leadership or team coordination experience
- Experience executing test plans, validating regression scope, supporting release-readiness checks, and performing production validation
- Strong ability to validate complexbusiness workflows involving data ingestion, validation, metric calculation, notifications, and user interaction
- Experience testing RESTful APIs, backend services, database-driven workflows, scheduled jobs, and event-driven processing
- Strong SQL skillsfor test data setup, datavalidation, troubleshooting, and reconciliation
- Experience defining teststrategy, test plans,test scope, and release-readiness criteria
- Ability to support UAT, defect triage, retesting, release signoff, and quality communication across stakeholders
Personal
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with all levels of employees and management
- Demonstrated leadership abilities in managing, mentoring, and guiding a QA team
- Strong analytical andproblem-solving skills withattention to detail
- A proactive, ownership-driven approach to quality, release readiness, and process improvement
PreferredSkills
Job
- Experience using QA automation or AI-assisted toolsto accelerate test design, regression scripting, and test maintenance
- Experience with VersionOne, Jira, or equivalent Agileticketing systems for test planning and defect tracking
- Familiarity with AWS-based platforms, messaging systems (SQS/SNS, JMS), andevent-driven architectures
- Exposure to testingJava/Spring, React, and legacy Grails-based applications
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