QA Architect

Isobar Commerce India Private Limited; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Merkle in Pune is seeking a leader to build and expand a high-performance QA team focused on delivering high-quality software. You will guide testing strategy, collaborate with cross-functional leads, and drive process improvements across multiple projects.

You will own test planning, estimates, and resource forecasting while promoting knowledge sharing and technical growth within the team. Strong leadership and a proactive approach to production issue resolution are essential.

Qualifications

• Leads the QA function to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Defines test requirements and estimates with stakeholders.
• Owns test plan execution and risk mitigation across projects.
• Promotes knowledge sharing and training within the team.

Responsibilities

• Owns overall customer satisfaction from software quality.
• Manages multiple QA programmes across projects.
• Collaborates with leads from other disciplines to apply QA processes.
• Communicates test plans, estimates and resource needs to stakeholders.
• Develops the team’s technical and domain expertise via training initiatives.
• Drives innovations in testing tools and processes.

Skills

QA leadership

Test strategy

Stakeholder collaboration

Test planning

Knowledge sharing

Testing infrastructure

Production issue investigation

Industry best practices

Tools

Test bed management

Job description

The purpose of this role is to build, lead and continuously develop a high-performance QA team that ensures deliverables meet the high-quality standards of the company. To lead technical initiatives in order to optimise the quality assurance approach and tools and to grow the technical knowledge in the team by providing guidance and knowledge sharing.

Job Description:

Key responsibilities

• Is responsible for overall customers’ satisfaction from software quality point of view
• Ensures overall quality of the deliverables and customer satisfaction across a number of projects
• Successfully manages several complex QA programmes simultaneously.
• Collaborates with leads in other disciplines to implement the QA process and methodology
• Works closely with the Functional Director and the business stakeholders on providing test requirements, QA estimates and resource needs across one or more projects
• Provides and controls the project test plan execution, assigns responsibilities to team members and provides visibility on the progress, risks and mitigation plans regularly
• Owns the development of the team’s technical and domain expertise via various knowledge sharing and training initiatives
• Leads technical innovation initiatives resulting in optimisations in various areas (technical processes and approaches, tools)
• Adopts industry best practices and industry standards as best suited to the organisation
• Manages the implementation of overall testing infrastructure (test bed/environment)
• Is responsible for the development of the team’s technical and domain expertise via various knowledge sharing and training initiatives.
• Ensures lines of succession are in place
• Proactively involved in production problems investigation and defines issue prevention action

Location: Pune

Brand: Merkle

Time Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

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