QA Lead

Job Description

Role Overview

Veza is seeking an experienced QA Lead to drive quality engineering efforts within our India team. The QA Lead will be responsible for leading day-to-day QA activities, guiding a small team of engineers, and ensuring Veza's products are reliable, scalable, and secure.

This role is both hands-on and leadership-oriented: you will design and implement test strategies, drive automation, and collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to deliver high-quality releases.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead QA planning, execution, and reporting for product releases.
- Mentor and guide QA engineers, fostering skill development and a culture of quality.
- Design and maintain test frameworks, automation suites, and CI/CD integrations.
- Perform hands-on testing across functional, integration, API, performance, and security areas.
- Collaborate with developers and product managers to define test plans, acceptance criteria, and release readiness standards.
- Drive adoption of automation-first and shift-left testing practices.
- Ensure timely and high-quality delivery through proactive risk identification and mitigation.
- Provide clear communication on quality status, issues, and risks to stakeholders.

Qualifications

- 7+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, with at least 3+ years in a lead role.
- Proven experience in building and mentoring QA teams.
- Strong expertise in test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, TestNG, JUnit, Pytest, Rest Assured).
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, microservices, and API testing.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence engineering and product peers.
- Passion for product quality, user experience, and security.

Our Culture

We're driven to build a strong company culture and are looking for individuals with solid alignment with the following:

- Ownership Mindset
- Act with Integrity
- Guardians of our Customers
- Opinionated Humility
- Build Trust, Earn Trust

At Veza, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range can be discussed with your recruiter for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for equity and a competitive benefits package.

Veza is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants according to applicable federal, state, and local laws. If a candidate with a disability requires an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email [Confidential Information]

About Veza

Veza is the identity security company. Identity and security teams use Veza to secure identity access across SaaS apps, on-prem apps, data systems, and cloud infrastructure. Veza solves the blind spots of traditional identity tools with its unique ability to ingest and organize permissions metadata in the Veza Authorization Graph. Global enterprises like Blackstone, Wynn Resorts, and Expedia trust Veza to visualize access permissions, monitor permissions activity, automate access reviews, and remediate privilege violations. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures. Visit us at veza.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.