QA Engineering Leader

Kavia AI; India; Hybrid; INR 1,100,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

KAVIA AI in India (Remote or Hybrid) seeks a hands-on QA Engineering Leader to elevate product quality across a production AI platform. You will define quality processes, expand automation where it matters, and improve confidence in releases for enterprise SaaS customers.

You'll collaborate with engineering and product teams to test complex workflows, validate AI-assisted outputs, and mentor junior QA engineers while shaping a practical, scalable testing strategy in a fast-moving

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional experience in software testing, QA, or quality engineering.
• Experience with product testing, regression testing, and bug reporting.
• Experience testing web applications, backend systems, and APIs.
• Experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress.

Responsibilities

• Own Product Quality Across the Platform: drive quality across core platform workflows including UI, backend, APIs.
• Quality Engineering & Automation: build and expand automated test coverage for high-value product workflows.
• Product and Workflow Validation: perform exploratory testing and validate AI-assisted workflows.
• Release Readiness & Reliability: support release readiness and surface quality risks early.
• Team & Quality Culture: mentor juniors and promote disciplined testing practices.

Skills

Software testing

QA automation

API testing

Web app testing

Ownership & communication

Collaboration with engineers

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Job description

Senior QA Engineer – Product Quality & Automation

Company: KAVIA AI Location: India (Remote or Hybrid; collaboration with global teams) Type: Full-time Compensation: ₹12 LPA

About KAVIA AI

KAVIA AI is an enterprise software company with a live, production AI platform in use today.

We build an AI-native workflow and reasoning layer for the full software development lifecycle — spanning requirements, architecture, code, testing, CI/CD, and long-term maintenance. Our platform is used by enterprise teams working on real, large-scale codebases, not demos or internal experiments.

AI at KAVIA is foundational. The platform is built around agent-based orchestration, enterprise knowledge graphs, and full lifecycle traceability, enabling teams to understand, evolve, and ship complex software systems with greater speed, confidence, and structure.

As the platform and customer footprint scale, we're hiring a QA Engineering Leader to help raise the bar across the product and establish a stronger foundation for test strategy, automation, release confidence, and product reliability.

The Role

This is a hands-on quality leadership role on an existing, production platform.

As a QA Engineering Leader, you will work closely with engineering and product teams to improve how KAVIA tests, validates, and releases core platform capabilities. You will help define practical quality processes, expand automation where it matters most, and improve confidence across product workflows already in customer use.

This role sits at the intersection of product quality, workflow validation, pragmatic automation, and release readiness.

This role is ideal for an experienced quality engineer who wants meaningful ownership, broad product exposure, and the opportunity to shape quality practices in a fast-moving enterprise SaaS environment.

What You'll Do

Own Product Quality Across the Platform

• Drive quality across core platform workflows spanning UI, backend services, APIs, and multi-step product experiences
• Design and execute test strategies for new features, existing workflows, and critical release paths
• Improve regression discipline and testing coverage across the areas of greatest product and customer risk

Quality Engineering & Automation

• Build and expand automated test coverage for high-value product workflows
• Design end-to-end, integration, regression, and API tests across the platform
• Improve test reliability, maintainability, and execution confidence over time
• Introduce practical quality engineering practices appropriate for a growing product company

Product and Workflow Validation

• Perform hands-on exploratory testing across platform behavior, workflow logic, and user-facing product experiences
• Validate AI-assisted workflows and platform outputs for correctness, consistency, and usability
• Identify edge cases, workflow gaps, and failure modes that may not be captured by basic happy-path testing
• Translate product requirements and changing system behavior into thoughtful, accurate test scenarios

Release Readiness & Reliability

• Support release readiness by validating critical flows before production releases
• Surface quality risks clearly and early so the team can make sound release decisions
• Work with engineering teams to validate fixes, reduce recurring defects, and improve release confidence
• Help improve bug reporting standards, release checklists, and test execution discipline

Team & Quality Culture

• Help establish a stronger quality bar across the engineering organization
• Bring structure, judgment, and clarity to how the team thinks about testing and release risk
• Mentor junior QA engineers and help improve day-to-day testing discipline
• Partner effectively with engineers and product managers in a high-trust, fast-moving environment
• Contribute to a culture of ownership, rigor, and practical execution

What We're Looking For

Required

• 3–5 years of professional experience in software testing, QA, or quality engineering
• Strong hands-on experience in product testing, regression testing, and bug reporting
• Experience testing web applications, backend systems, and APIs
• Experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or similar
• Ability to design test strategy and identify quality risks across complex product workflows
• Good technical depth and comfort working closely with software engineers
• Strong ownership, judgment, communication, and attention to detail
• Comfort operating in fast-moving environments with real users and changing product behavior

Strong Plus

• Experience with Python or JavaScript for automation, scripting, or test tooling
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release processes
• Experience testing complex workflows, developer tools, or AI-assisted systems
• Startup or product company experience
• Ability to improve testing structure and quality processes with limited hand-holding
• Track record of bringing discipline and clarity to quality efforts in ambiguous environments

Why This Role Is Interesting

• Work on a real, production enterprise platform
• Have visible impact on product quality, release confidence, and automation maturity
• Work closely with engineering and product teams on meaningful technical problems
• Help shape the quality foundation of a fast-evolving company
• Take on a role with genuine ownership and room to grow

Who This Role Is a Good Fit For

This role tends to resonate with engineers who:

• Care deeply about quality, correctness, and user experience
• Enjoy finding failure modes before customers do
• Like balancing hands-on testing with pragmatic automation
• Prefer real product ownership over narrow function-based roles
• Want to help shape how a growing engineering team builds and releases software