Lead QA Engineer

1 week ago

Chennai, India DMAIC Academy & Consultancy Full time

Role Overview This is a greenfield opportunity for the right person: you’ll take complete ownership of the software testing lifecycle (STLC) across our products ensuring quality from requirements through release. Beyond testing features and releases directly, you’ll work closely with Product and Customer Success teams to help shape requirements, clarify acceptance criteria, and ensure smooth, predictable releases to customers. You’ll also mentor graduate and junior testers, introduce modern QA practices, and create a more structured, proactive approach to quality. You’ll be the person the team looks to for support and guidance, helping QA move from “validating after the build” to being a proactive and trusted part of product development. Take full ownership of QA activities across the entire STLC – from requirement analysis to Define and implement QA processes, documentation standards, and regression practices. ● release planning. ● Advocate for a more structured release cycle, driving quality gates before production deployments. ● Introduce and champion modern QA practices (exploratory testing, risk-based regression, shift-left testing). ● Evaluate and recommend QA tools (test management, collaboration, defect tracking). ● First 30 Days : Gain deep understanding of products, workflows, and current QA practices. building trust with testers, developers, and product teams. to daily QA tasks. ● By 60 Days : Establish lightweight but effective QA processes (test documentation standards, Mentor juniors and start building consistency across the QA By 90 Days : Take full ownership of QA cycles requirements to release. QA is seen as a proactive Success, and a foundation laid for ongoing process maturity. Strong background in manual/functional and API testing with proven ability to set up QA Solid understanding of QA fundamentals and ability to adapt practices to a high-velocity skills and performance. A natural coach who leads by example ● Comfortable working closely with developers, product managers, and customer-facing teams. ● Lead the preparation and execution of functional test scripts, ensuring thorough coverage and Familiarity with test management tools (e.g., Experience with API testing tools like Postman or similar are a plus. ● Experience/knowledge working with LLM or SLM-based AI products . ● Experience in product companies during scale-up stages , where processes and quality This is the perfect role for someone who is still hands-on but ready to take the next step, bringing leadership, structure, and mentorship to a QA team in a fast-moving product startup.

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