Lead QA

Burns & McDonnell; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Burns & McDonnell is seeking a Senior QA Leader to steer a distributed team of QA professionals across multiple delivery streams. You will drive QA standards, test strategy, and tooling adoption while coaching practitioners and ensuring alignment with enterprise quality goals.

You will champion shift-left practices, oversee automation plans (Playwright/Selenium/Cypress), and collaborate with DevOps to embed tests into CI/CD. Strong stakeholder communication is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field.
• 12-14 years of QA testing experience, including leadership of QA practitioners or delivery team QA coordination.
• Strong command of software QA methodologies — functional, regression, integration, exploratory, UAT support, and performance testing.
• Hands‑on experience writing and maintaining test automation scripts; familiarity with Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress.
• Experience with ERP or enterprise application testing (e.g., Oracle EBS, Unanet, EcoSys) is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., JavaScript, Python, Java).
• Experience with Xray, Jira, or Azure DevOps for test management and defect tracking.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines; familiarity with observability and production monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, Dynatrace).
• Demonstrated ability to communicate quality risk and testing outcomes clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong coaching and mentoring instincts — able to develop practitioners at different experience levels.
• Deep familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery practices and the QA's role within a cross-functional delivery team.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., ISTQB) are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of QA practitioners embedded across delivery teams, ensuring consistent application of QA standards, methodologies, and tools.
• Facilitate individual growth conversations, set development goals, and provide ongoing feedback and mentorship across the team.
• Drive a culture of quality ownership, continuous improvement, and shared accountability.
• Onboard new QA team members; establish expectations, tools access, and delivery team integration from day one.
• Build team capacity by identifying skill gaps and supporting professional development plans aligned to the QA leveling framework.
• Partner with US-based QA Practice Leads to align standards, share tooling and methodology advances, and build a globally consistent QA capability that scales across the enterprise.
• Review and advise on test plans, automation coverage, and quality approaches across delivery squads to ensure alignment, completeness, and risk-based prioritization.
• Own overall quality posture across programs — elevate systemic risks, monitor defect trends, and drive corrective action when patterns emerge.
• Ensure QA is engaged at the start of every initiative, upgrade, and release planning conversation — not informed after delivery is underway.
• Facilitate cross-role test planning sessions; ensure acceptance criteria are testable, risk-informed, and linked to Jira Xray test cases before development begins.
• Champion shift-left practices across teams: proactive defect prevention through early requirements engagement, Behavior Driven Development, and risk surfacing during refinement.
• Guide delivery teams on scalable automation practices using the enterprise test automation framework (e.g. Playwright, Opkey).
• Monitor automation coverage across teams; ensure automation is planned at project kickoff, not retrofitted at release.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted test creation approaches; track efficiency gains and share learnings with the broader QA practice.
• Partner with development leads and DevOps to integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and production health monitoring.
• Coach QA team members on integrating quality into Agile delivery — sprint planning, refinement, daily standups, and retrospectives.
• Resolve testing-related delivery blockers across the QA team; align teams to program cadence and sprint-level quality goals.
• Ensure QA practitioners are included as full members of delivery teams — not downstream recipients of completed work.
• Partner with Agile Practices leads to embed QA excellence into delivery team agreements and working norms.
• Share quality health reports with development leads, delivery leads, and practice managers on a regular cadence.
• Communicate test readiness and quality risk clearly to program stakeholders before major release decisions.
• Represent the QA practice in cross-functional forums; translate QA data into business impact language for non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to QA practice visibility through participation knowledge sharing, community of practice events, and internal showcases.
• Ensure QA work is tracked and visible in Jira — test plans, execution status, defect metrics, and automation coverage — for all active programs.
• Contribute to the ongoing maturation of QA standards, tooling, and playbooks.
• Partner on capacity planning, staffing needs, and resource allocation across programs.
• Support pursuit efforts by articulating QA value, methodology, and quality outcomes when needed.

Skills

QA leadership

Quality standards

Mentoring

Agile/Scrum

Test planning

Stakeholder communication

Quality risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Jira

Xray

Azure DevOps

New Relic

Dynatrace

Job description

Description

Team Leadership & Practice Development

Lead, coach, and develop a team of QA practitioners embedded across delivery teams, ensuring consistent application of QA standards, methodologies, and tools.

Facilitate individual growth conversations, set development goals, and provide ongoing feedback and mentorship across the team.

Drive a culture of quality ownership, continuous improvement, and shared accountability.

Onboard new QA team members; establish expectations, tools access, and delivery team integration from day one.

Build team capacity by identifying skill gaps and supporting professional development plans aligned to the QA leveling framework.

Partner with US-based QA Practice Leads to align standards, share tooling and methodology advances, and build a globally consistent QA capability that scales across the enterprise.

Test Strategy & Delivery Oversight

Review and advise on test plans, automation coverage, and quality approaches across delivery squads to ensure alignment, completeness, and risk-based prioritization.

Own overall quality posture across programs — elevate systemic risks, monitor defect trends, and drive corrective action when patterns emerge.

Ensure QA is engaged at the start of every initiative, upgrade, and release planning conversation — not informed after delivery is underway.

Facilitate cross-role test planning sessions; ensure acceptance criteria are testable, risk-informed, and linked to Jira Xray test cases before development begins.

Champion shift-left practices across teams: proactive defect prevention through early requirements engagement, Behavior Driven Development, and risk surfacing during refinement.

Automation & Tooling

Guide delivery teams on scalable automation practices using the enterprise test automation framework (e.g. Playwright, Opkey).

Monitor automation coverage across teams; ensure automation is planned at project kickoff, not retrofitted at release.

Drive adoption of AI-assisted test creation approaches; track efficiency gains and share learnings with the broader QA practice.

Partner with development leads and DevOps to integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and production health monitoring.

Agile & Delivery Integration

Coach QA team members on integrating quality into Agile delivery — sprint planning, refinement, daily standups, and retrospectives.

Resolve testing-related delivery blockers across the QA team; align teams to program cadence and sprint-level quality goals.

Ensure QA practitioners are included as full members of delivery teams — not downstream recipients of completed work.

Partner with Agile Practices leads to embed QA excellence into delivery team agreements and working norms.

Stakeholder Communication & Reporting

Share quality health reports with development leads, delivery leads, and practice managers on a regular cadence.

Communicate test readiness and quality risk clearly to program stakeholders before major release decisions.

Represent the QA practice in cross-functional forums; translate QA data into business impact language for non-technical audiences.

Contribute to QA practice visibility through participation knowledge sharing, community of practice events, and internal showcases.

Practice & Operations

Ensure QA work is tracked and visible in Jira — test plans, execution status, defect metrics, and automation coverage — for all active programs.

Contribute to the ongoing maturation of QA standards, tooling, and playbooks.

Partner on capacity planning, staffing needs, and resource allocation across programs.

Support pursuit efforts by articulating QA value, methodology, and quality outcomes when needed.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

12-14 years of QA testing experience, including demonstrated leadership of QA practitioners or delivery team QA coordination.

Strong command of software QA methodologies — functional, regression, integration, exploratory, UAT support, and performance testing.

Hands‑on experience writing and maintaining test automation scripts; familiarity with frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress.

Experience with ERP or enterprise application testing (e.g., Oracle EBS, Unanet, EcoSys) is strongly preferred.

Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., JavaScript, Python, Java).

Experience with Xray, Jira, or Azure DevOps for test management and defect tracking.

Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines; familiarity with observability and production monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, Dynatrace).

Demonstrated ability to communicate quality risk and testing outcomes clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Strong coaching and mentoring instincts — able to develop practitioners at different experience levels.

Deep familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery practices and the QA's role within a cross-functional delivery team.

Relevant certifications (e.g., ISTQB) are advantageous.

This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.

Job Information Technology

Primary Location India-Karnataka-Bengaluru

Schedule: Full-time

Travel: No

Req ID: 263490

Job Hire Type Experienced Not Applicable #BMI N/A