Quality Assurance Lead

Quality Assurance Lead - Digital

Weir Minerals

Bangalore

Onsite

Weir's vision is clear: To harness the power of digital innovation to deliver unparalleled value to its customers. 'NEXT Intelligent Solutions' embodies this vision, integrating cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics. This ecosystem is not just a suite of tools, but a comprehensive platform designed to optimize operations, enhance productivity, and drive sustainable growth.

As part of the Minerals Digital 2025 strategy, the Quality Assurance Lead plays a critical role in ensuring the timely and high-quality delivery of digital solutions across products and programs. This role partners closely with digital product owners and cross-functional teams to plan and execute comprehensive testing strategies from initiation through to launch. Reporting to the Head of Process and Quality, the QA Lead fosters a culture of quality, agility, and delivery excellence—without direct people management responsibilities.

Why choose Weir:

Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It's a big challenge – but it is exciting.

An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.

Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual's contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities:

• Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.
• Lead QA Strategy: Define and execute quality assurance plans for IoT applications and enterprise systems, aligned with project goals.
• Drive Automation: Champion automation across functional, integration, performance, and security testing using modern tools and frameworks.
• Manage Testing Lifecycle: Oversee planning, execution, and reporting of manual and automated tests within Agile environments.
• Mentor QA Team: Guide and support QA engineers, fostering continuous improvement and ownership.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with Product, Development, DevOps, and Business teams to embed quality throughout the SDLC.
• Enhance QA Processes: Identify gaps, implement improvements, and adopt new tools to strengthen testing effectiveness and release readiness.

Job Knowledge / Education and Qualifications

• Extensive QA Experience: 10+ years in Quality Assurance, including 5+ years in the Industrial IoT (IIoT) domain, with a degree in engineering, computer science, IS&T, or equivalent experience.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong hands-on experience with automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Postman), scripting languages (Python, JavaScript), SQL, and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• IoT & AI Testing Expertise: Deep understanding of IoT protocols, device/cloud integration, edge gateways, sensing systems, and AI pipeline testing including model monitoring and anomaly detection.
• Leadership & Communication: Proven ability to lead QA teams, drive initiatives, and communicate effectively across cross-functional and matrixed environments.
• Enterprise-Scale Delivery: Demonstrated success in Agile delivery for enterprise-level software and digital platforms, including end-to-end testing and release readiness.
• Industry Knowledge: Experience in mechanical engineering, manufacturing, or heavy industry is highly advantageous.

Applications for this role will close on 22 September 2025

Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir's technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.

Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.