QA Team Lead: Shape Quality for Greenfield NOS

Evollabs; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Evollabs in Dubai is seeking a QA Team Lead to build and guide a team of QA Engineers and SDETs responsible for the NOS quality. You will balance technical leadership with people leadership to ensure high-quality releases.

You will own the QA strategy, oversee CI/CD integrations, coordinate test planning with development leads across HAL, Control Plane, and Management Plane, and drive a quality culture for a greenfield project.

Qualifications

• Experience leading QA teams in networking or systems software.
• Strong background in test automation and network engineering.
• Familiarity with routing protocols and data center networking.
• Experience managing CI/CD-driven QA environments.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a QA team (5-10 engineers) across manual and automated testing.
• Define QA strategy for functional, regression, and performance validation.
• Oversee CI/CD pipeline integration of QA workflows.
• Coordinate test planning with development leads across HAL, Control Plane, and Management Plane.
• Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of test cycles.
• Act as the voice of QA in release and architecture reviews.

Skills

QA leadership

Test automation

Networking / data center networking

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Evollabs in Dubai is seeking a QA Team Lead to build and guide a team of QA Engineers and SDETs responsible for the NOS quality. You will balance technical leadership with people leadership to ensure high-quality releases.

You will own the QA strategy, oversee CI/CD integrations, coordinate test planning with development leads across HAL, Control Plane, and Management Plane, and drive a quality culture for a greenfield project.