Lead Test Engineer

ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

HID Global in Chennai (Hybrid) seeks a Lead Test Engineer to drive QA across AI/ML platforms and enterprise solutions. You will define testing strategies, lead automation efforts, mentor QA teams, and ensure quality across products, apps, and workflows with strong collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.

The role emphasizes test planning, automation, agile delivery, and responsible AI governance, while guiding QA practices and metrics across projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience.
• Experience leading testing teams in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong automation experience and test strategy definition.
• Familiarity with AI/ML testing, agent-based systems, and enterprise apps.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement end-to-end testing strategies for AI/ML products and agent-based solutions.
• Lead functional, integration, system, regression, and UAT testing activities.
• Design and maintain scalable test automation frameworks and CI/CD integration.
• Coordinate defect tracking, triage, and resolution processes.
• Coordinate performance, load, and security testing; ensure release readiness.

Skills

Test planning

Automation frameworks

QA leadership

Agile/Scrum

CI/CD

Performance testing

Security testing

AI/ML testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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An Amazing Career Opportunity for Lead Test EngineerLocation: Chennai, India (Hybrid)Job ID: 49341

Profile Summary:

We are looking for an experiencedLead Test Engineerto lead quality assurance initiatives across software products and platforms. The ideal candidate will be responsible for defining test strategies, driving automation, ensuring product quality, mentoring QA teams, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver reliable and scalable solutions across Generative AI, LLM-based solutions, AI agents, multi-agent workflows, RAG systems, and traditional software platforms, ensuring reliability, accuracy, security, scalability, and responsible AI compliance.

This role requires strong expertise in test planning, automation frameworks, quality processes, and modern Agile delivery methodologies.

About HID Global

HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things. We make it possible for people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely. Our trusted identity solutions give people secure and convenient access to physical and digital places and connect things that can be accurately identified, verified and tracked digitally. Millions of people around the world use HID products and services to navigate their everyday lives, and over 2 billion things are connected through HID. We work with governments, educational institutions, hospitals, financial institutions, industrial businesses, and some of the most innovative companies on the planet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 4500 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand. HID Global has is the trusted source for secure identity solutions for millions of customers and users around the world. In India, we have two Engineering Centre (Bangalore and Chennai). Global Engineering Team is based in Chennai and one of the Business Unit Engineering team is based in Bangalore. Check us out: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo

Are You Ready to Join the Team?
Our company is committed to finding the best and the brightest talent to help us reach the top. If you are a dynamic, highly skilled, experienced Cloud engineer and technology enthusiast, and you enjoy working in a rapid pace within a rapidly growing business environment, then you will want to consider this position. If you excel at communication, collaboration, and unrelenting innovation, we want to talk to you. And if you bring dedication, positive energy and integrity to the table, you just might be the right fit for our team.

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Roles & Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned)

• Define and implement end-to-end testing strategies for AI/ML products and agent-based solutions.
• Establish quality frameworks for LLMs, RAG applications, copilots, and autonomous AI agents.
• Accuracy
• Tool invocation correctness
• Workflow reliability
• Define and implement overall testing strategy for projects and releases.
• Develop test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and test execution schedules.
• Identify quality risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Ensure comprehensive coverage across functional and non-functional requirements.

Test Execution & Quality Assurance

• Lead functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Coordinate defect tracking, triage, and resolution processes.
• Validate software releases against business and technical requirements.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards and best practices.

Test Automation

• Design and maintain scalable test automation frameworks.
• Increase automation coverage for web, API, and backend applications.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Continuously improve test efficiency through automation and innovative testing techniques.

Performance & Security Testing

• Coordinate performance, load, stress, and scalability testing.
• Identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Support security testing and vulnerability assessments.
• Ensure system reliability under expected and peak workloads.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Lead and mentor QA engineers and test teams.
• Conduct test reviews and quality audits.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, Architects, and Business Analysts.
• Provide regular status reports, quality metrics, and release readiness assessments.

Process Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across QA practices.
• Establish quality metrics and KPIs.
• Promote shift-left testing and quality engineering practices.
• Introduce industry’s best practices, tools, and methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications.

• Experience with Microsoft Copilot, AI Agents, or Agentic AI platforms.
• Understanding of Responsible AI principles and governance.
• Experience testing enterprise AI solutions integrated with Microsoft 365, SAP, Salesforce, or ServiceNow.
• Knowledge of ML model lifecycle and MLOps practices.
• Certifications in Azure AI, AWS AI, or ISTQB Advanced Test Management.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience in test automation framework design and implementation.
• Exposure to performance testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience.
• 3+ years leading testing teams or quality engineering initiatives.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of SDLC and STLC.
• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools.
• Functional Testing
• Integration Testing
• Regression Testing
• API/UI Testing
• Performance Testing
• Automation Testing

AI evaluation testing

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop automated test suites for AI and agent behavior validation.

Agentic AI Validation

• Validate multi-step agent workflows and decision-making processes.
• Test agent interactions with external tools, APIs, databases, and enterprise systems.
• Evaluate:
• Agent orchestration
• Memory management
• Failure recovery mechanisms

Generative AI Quality Assurance

• Define benchmarks for model performance and response quality.
• Create datasets and evaluation pipelines for:
• Response scoring
• Regression testing
• Safety validation
• Monitor AI outputs for consistency, bias, toxicity, and compliance risks.

Performance & Security Testing

• Conduct load, stress, scalability, and reliability testing of AI services.
• Validate model latency, throughput, and token utilization.
• Perform security testing including:
• Jailbreak vulnerability assessments
• Data leakage testing
• Access control validation

Automation Tools

• Selenium
• Playwright
• Cypress
• Appium
• REST Assured
• Postman

Programming Languages

• Django
• Python
• React

CI/CD & DevOps

• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions

AI & GenAI

• Anthropic Claude
• Gemini
• LangChain
• Semantic Kernel
• AutoGen
• CrewAI
• LangGraph
  

AI Testing Frameworks

• DeepEval
• Ragas
• TruLens
• LangSmith Evaluation
• AWS
• GCP
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• Docker

Data Technologies

• SQL
• Vector Databases
• Pinecone
• Weaviate
• Chroma
• Leadership and mentoring
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Risk assessment and quality governance

Success Metrics

• Increased automation coverage
• Improved release quality and stability
• Faster test execution cycles
• Defect leakage reduction

Ideal Candidate

A hands-on quality engineering leader with strong automation expertise, proven experience leading testing teams, and a passion for building high-quality software products through effective testing strategies and continuous improvement.

Why apply?

• Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible workenvironment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes.
• Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part-time job seekers.
• Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves to feel appreciated and accepted.

This opportunity may be open to flexible working arrangements.

HID is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to do it – without having to think about it.
When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.