Senior QA Tester

Arcitech; Mumbai City; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekends off

Provident fund

Job summary

Arcitech AI Turbhe, Maharashtra, India is seeking a Senior QA Tester to lead the manual testing team and elevate testing standards across high-stakes products. You will define the QA strategy, implement coverage, and govern release readiness while still personally testing the riskiest areas.

You will mentor testers, set standards, and drive quality outcomes across the portfolio, owning sign‑off and maintaining independence from delivery pressure.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in QA, with 2+ years leading a testing team.
• Proven test-strategy ownership with test plans and coverage frameworks.
• Strong manual testing depth; still hands-on for hardest areas.
• Release-readiness decisions and RCAs for escaped defects.
• Experience with complex products (payments, multi-tenant data, regulated data).
• Leadership, mentoring, and accountability.
• Tooling proficiency with Zoho and Jira.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the QA process and test strategy for Tier 1 products and complex client projects.
• Build and maintain test plans, coverage matrices, and traceability across products.
• Establish testing standards for hard areas: payments, multi-currency flows, data isolation, regulated data.
• Lead, mentor, and review the manual testing team; improve test design and defect reporting quality.
• Own release-readiness decisions and sign-off discipline; protect QA independence.
• Lead root-cause analyses and implement corrective actions across the team.
• Coordinate testing across multiple products and complex client projects.
• Maintain accurate records in Zoho Projects and Zoho Desk; ensure the team does the same.
• Identify automation opportunities and build the roadmap for future automation.
• Report quality metrics and risks to leadership on a regular cadence.

Skills

QA leadership

Test strategy

Manual testing

Release readiness

Root-cause analysis

Complex product exposure

Mentoring

Integrity

Defect tracking tools

Tools

Zoho

Jira

Job description

Senior QA Tester

Arcitech AI

Arcitech AI Turbhe, Maharashtra, India

Turbhe, Maharashtra, India

On-site

Full-time

5+ Years experience required5+ Years

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Posted 15 days ago

About Company

Arcitech AI, located in Navi Mumbai's bustling Vashi, is a trailblazer in software and IT, specializing in software development, AI, mobile apps, and integrative solutions. Committed to excellence and innovation, Arcitech AI offers incredible growth opportunities for team members. Enjoy unique perks like weekends off and a provident fund. Our vibrant culture is friendly and cooperative, fostering a dynamic work environment that inspires creativity and forward-thinking. Join us to shape the future of technology.

Unit No. 15, Ground Floor, E Wing, Phase - I, Akshar Business Park, Sector - 25, Vashi- 400703.

Job Description

About the Role

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role. You will lead our manual testing team and own the testing craft across our highest-stakes products. Today we have capable testers but no one test strategy, coverage standards, and QA process maturity at a senior level that is the gap you will fill. You will set how we test, raise the bar on the teams test design and defect quality, govern release readiness, and bring the structure (test plans, coverage tracking, traceability) that our most complex products demand. You remain hands-on you still test the hardest, highest-risk areas yourself while also leading: setting standards, mentoring testers, and owning quality outcomes across the portfolio.

Leading and mentoring the testing team. Raise the teams standard of test design, edge-case thinking, and defect reporting through review, coaching, and clear standards. Identify weak testing and fix it.

Release-readiness governance. Own the sign-off discipline across products: nothing ships as tested without documented, executed coverage. Uphold QA independence from delivery pressure across the whole team.

Root-cause analysis on escaped defects. Lead RCAs when a material bug reaches a client, identify how it escaped (missing coverage, bad handoff, rushed sign-off, regression not tested), and drive corrective action so it does not recur.

Quality reporting to leadership. Report quality status, risks, and trends across products to the CEO, with a clear, honest picture at all times.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the QA process and test strategy for Tier 1 products and complex client projects.
• Build and maintain test plans, coverage matrices, and traceability across products.
• Establish testing standards for the hard areas: payment and multi-currency flows, role/permission boundaries and data isolation, sensitive- and regulated-data handling, and integration-heavy business logic.
• Lead, mentor, and review the manual testing team; improve each testers test design and defect-reporting quality.
• Own release-readiness decisions and sign-off discipline; protect and model QA Independence from delivery pressure.
• Lead escaped-defect RCAs and implement corrective actions across the team.
• Coordinate testing across multiple products and complex client projects simultaneously.
• Maintain accurate records in Zoho Projects and Zoho Desk; ensure the team does the same.
• Identify automation opportunities and build the case and roadmap for introducing automation over time.
• Report quality metrics and risks to leadership on a regular cadence.

Central to this role

You set the standard for quality independence and model it for the team. QA decisions are made on the merits of what is actually working, never on schedule or incentive pressure. When a release is not ready, you block it and you back your testers when they block it. You hold the line so your testers can hold theirs. You own final QA sign-off and override authority; in exceptional cases, only the CEO may override. We are looking for a leader with the judgment and backbone to own this.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years in QA, with 2+ years leading or mentoring a testing team. You have run a testing team, not just been a senior individual contributor.
• Proven test-strategy ownership. You have built test plans, coverage frameworks, and QA processes from the ground up not just executed within someone elses framework.
• Strong manual testing depth. You are still genuinely hands-on and can test the hardest areas yourself.
• Release-readiness and RCA track record. You have owned go/no-go quality decisions and led root-cause analysis on escaped defects.
• Complex-product experience. You have tested products involving payments, multi-tenant data isolation, or sensitive/regulated data.
• Leadership and mentoring ability. You can raise a teams standard, give direct feedback, and hold testers accountable.
• Integrity and independence. You hold the quality line under pressure and protect your teams ability to do the same.
• Tooling. Strong with defect/issue tracking and test management (Zoho, Jira, or .)