QA Lead

Kayana | Ordering & Payment Solutions; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment solutions firm in Mumbai is seeking a QA Lead to enhance quality assurance for their ordering and payment platform. This role focuses on reducing production bugs and improving release quality by implementing automation-first testing practices. Candidates should have 7-8+ years in QA/SDET roles, experience with automated frameworks, and familiarity with CI/CD tools. The role involves mentoring QA engineers and driving quality standards across teams.

Qualifications

• 7-8+ years in QA / SDET roles, preferably in SaaS, fintech, or e-commerce.
• Experience leading QA initiatives or small teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated test frameworks.
• Build and maintain regression suites within CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive shift-left testing practices.
• Define and execute test plans, cases, and scenarios.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and performance testing.

Skills

Automated test frameworks design

Regression testing

Selenium

Cypress

CI/CD tools

Microservices architecture

Tools

Jira

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Industry: Payment Solutions / BFSI / Retail / Healthcare

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary

We are looking for a QA Lead to drive quality assurance initiatives across our ordering and payment platform. This role will be critical in reducing production bugs, improving release quality, and implementing automation-first testing practices.

You will work closely with Engineering, Product, and Support teams to ensure all features are delivered with high reliability, especially across critical flows such as orders, payments, and integrations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated test frameworks (UI, API, integration)
• Build and maintain regression suites within CI/CD pipelines
• Drive shift-left testing practices
• Define and execute test plans, cases, and scenarios
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and performance testing
• Ensure high coverage across critical business flows
• Manage structured bug triage (P0–P3 severity)
• Track defects using Jira / Linear and ensure timely resolution
• Partner with Engineering to reduce MTTR
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Support release validation, smoke testing, and rollback readiness
• Own QA sign-off and go/no-go decisions for releases
• Lead and mentor QA engineers; enforce QA standards and best practices
• Establish QA metrics (defect leakage, coverage, MTTR) and reporting
• Act as the main QA point of contact for stakeholders
• Lead post-release reviews and root cause analysis
• Work with Product, Engineering, and Support to improve quality processes
• Identify gaps and implement preventative measures

Requirements

Experience

• 7-8+ years in QA / SDET roles (SaaS, fintech, or e-commerce preferred)
• Experience leading QA initiatives or small teams

Technical Skills

• Experience with Selenium / Cypress / Playwright
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Understanding of microservices architecture and basic SQL