Functional Test Lead

The Hackett Group; Hyderabad; Presencial; INR 1 200 000 - 1 800 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

The Hackett Group is seeking a QA Lead to head a three-person QA team responsible for multiple applications in a Java/Spring, React SPA, and Grails environment. You will guide test planning, release signoff, defect triage, and QA practices across the portfolio.

You will execute test plans, validate regression scope, and support production validation, while validating complex data workflows and RESTful APIs. Strong SQL skills and mentoring abilities are essential in this role.

Qualificações

• 6-10 years in QA or quality engineering for enterprise web apps with leadership experience.
• Experience executing test plans, validation of regression scope, and release readiness checks.
• Strong ability to validate complex data workflows and user interactions.
• Experience testing RESTful APIs, backend services, and data-driven workflows.
• SQL skills for test data setup, validation, and troubleshooting.
• Ability to define test strategy, plans, scope, and release criteria.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the QA team and coordinate test planning, release signoff, and defect triage.
• Define and enforce QA standards, test strategy, and release-readiness criteria.
• Execute test plans, validate regression scope, and support production checks.
• Validate complex business workflows involving data ingestion and notifications.
• Test Java/Spring, React, and Grails-based applications for modernization effort.
• Mentor QA testers and collaborate with stakeholders across teams.

Conhecimentos

QA leadership

Test planning

REST API testing

SQL testing

Regression testing

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree

Ferramentas

Jira

VersionOne

AWS

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Job Description

The QA Lead / QA Tester would lead the three-person QA team across thez Development application portfolio with primary ownership a multi-tier enterprise platform built on Java/Spring services, a React single-page application, and a legacy Grails core. The role involves test execution, regression validation, data workflow testing, release-readiness coordination, and establishing QA standards, while coordinating test planning, release signoff, and defect triage across all three applications.

Responsibilities

• Understand the values and vision of the organization


• Adhere to all the policies and procedures


• Lead the QA team and coordinate test planning, release signoff, defect triage, and QA practices.


• Define and enforce QA standards, test strategy, regression scope, and release-readiness criteria across the application portfolio


• Execute test plans, validate regression scope, support release-readiness checks, and perform production validation.


• Validate complex business workflows involving data ingestion, validation, metric calculation, notifications, and user interaction


• Test RESTful APIs, backend services, database-driven workflows, scheduled jobs, and event-driven processing


• Perform test data setup, data validation, troubleshooting, and reconciliation using SQL


• Support UAT, defect triage, retesting, release signoff, and quality communication across development, and business stakeholders


• Validate modernization changes as the platform migrates away from legacy Grails/GSP, ActiveMQ/JMS, and Apache Storm components


• Use QA automation and AI-assisted tools where appropriate to accelerate test design, regression scripting, and test maintenance


• Mentor QA testers and support cross-training of QA resources across all three applications

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 complex business 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 skills for test data setup, data validation, troubleshooting, and reconciliation


• Experience defining test strategy, 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 and problem-solving skills with attention to detail


• A proactive, ownership-driven approach to quality, release readiness, and process improvement

Preferred Skills

Job

• Experience using QA automation or AI-assisted tools to accelerate test design, regression scripting, and test maintenance


• Experience with VersionOne, Jira, or equivalent Agile ticketing systems for test planning and defect tracking


• Familiarity with AWS-based platforms, messaging systems (SQS/SNS, JMS), and event-driven architectures


• Exposure to testing Java/Spring, React, and legacy Grails-based applications

Other Relevant Information

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field


• 6-10 years of experience in QA, software testing, or quality engineering, preferably for enterprise SaaS platforms


• Willingness to cross-train and provide QA coverage across multiple applications