QA Lead – Bengaluru – Product Based Organization

Anlight Consulting Services Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Anlight Consulting Services Private Limited in Bengaluru is seeking a senior QA leader to own the end-to-end quality strategy, from test planning to production monitoring. You will design, build, and scale robust automation across UI, API, integration, and performance layers, and enforce quality gates in CI/CD.

You will mentor QA engineers, promote an automation-first culture, and work with engineering, product, and design to shift quality left.

Qualifications

• 7-9 years of experience in software quality engineering.
• Hands-on with automation frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium) and API testing.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation integration.
• Experience building QA processes in fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Product-minded with focus on user experience and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end quality strategy from test planning to production monitoring.
• Design and scale robust automation frameworks across UI, API, and performance testing.
• Enforce quality gates in CI/CD and embed automated checks at every stage.
• Lead and mentor QA engineers, promoting automation-first culture.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to shift quality left.
• Track KPIs and report quality health to leadership.
• Drive performance/load testing to ensure scalable product reliability.
• Champion test data/env management and modern QA tooling.
• Contribute to incident reviews and preventative testing strategies.

Skills

Quality engineering

Automation strategy

CI/CD integration

Stakeholder management

DevOps practices

Product mindset

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

Selenium

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

Key Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

• Own the end-to-end quality strategy from test planning and automation architecture to release readiness and production monitoring.
• Design, build, and scale robust test automation frameworks across UI, API, integration, and performance testing layers.
• Define and enforce quality gates across the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring automated checks are embedded in every stage of delivery.
• Lead and mentor a teamof QA engineers, fostering a culture of automation-first thinking, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and design teams to shift quality left- catching issues early through better specs, reviews, and testing strategies.
• Establish and track quality KPIs (defect escape rate, test coverage, automation ROI, MTTR) and report on quality health to leadership.
• Drive performance and load testing initiatives to ensure Bruno scales reliably as the user base grows.
• Champion best practices in test data management, environment management, and test infrastructure.
• Evaluate and introduce modern QA tools and technologies that align with Bruno’s open-source, developer-first ethos.
• Participate in incident reviews and root cause analysis, feeding learnings back into prevention-focused testing strategies.

About You

• 7-9 years of experience in software quality engineering.
• Deep expertise in test automation- hands-on experience building and maintaining automation frameworks using tools like Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or similar.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and how to integrate automated testing seamlessly.
• Experience with API testing tools and frameworks.
• Proven ability to build quality processes from scratch in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Excellent understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, and DevOps practices.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills- you can translate quality metrics into business impact.
• A product mindset-you care about the user experience, not just the test results.

Bonus

• Experience with Electron-based applications or desktop software testing.
• Familiarity with open-source projects and community-driven development workflows.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools (k6, Locust, JMeter).
• Experience testing developer tools, API clients, CLI tools, or similar developer-first products.
• Exposure to AI-assisted testing tools or building test automation with GenAI capabilities.
• Contributions to QA communities, blogs, or open-source testing frameworks