Test Team Lead (QA & Automation)

Neoqubit Pvt Ltd.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Neoqubit Pvt Ltd. in Bengaluru seeks a Test Team Lead (QA and Automation) to guide a small QA team and contribute hands‑on testing across web applications. The role covers functional, automation, and performance testing, including API testing with Postman and performance checks with JMeter.

You will set testing strategy, drive release readiness, and use AI tools to enhance coverage while ensuring quality through data‑driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Must have: 2+ years in automation testing and 1+ year leading a team.
• Experience with Jira, Playwright, or similar tools.
• Strong communication and decision‑making skills.

Responsibilities

• Guide and coach the QA team: plan sprint work, assign tasks, track progress, remove blockers, give feedback.
• Own the quality of modules end‑to‑end from requirements to release, provide data‑backed go/no‑go on release readiness.
• Build a simple, practical test strategy and prioritize testing by risk and business impact.
• Set up regular calls with product, developers, and stakeholders and escalate issues early.
• Prioritize bugs by severity and impact, fix critical bugs first, perform root‑cause analysis.
• Define and track testing KPIs such as defect leakage and automation coverage.
• Use AI tools across testing: drafting/reviewing test cases, generating data, summarizing bugs, validating results.
• Stay hands‑on with functional, regression, exploratory, API (Postman), and performance (JMeter) testing, and build automation using Playwright.
• Test AI features such as chatbots for relevance and handling of edge cases.

Skills

QA leadership

Automation testing

Jira

Playwright

API testing

Performance testing

Communication

Decision making

Tools

Postman

JMeter

AI tools

Job description

We are hiring a Test Team Lead (QA and Automation) for our web application, covering functional, automation, and performance testing. The role is a mix of leading a small QA team and hands‑on testing. Let me know if you have any questions. Request you to share relevant profiles.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for guiding and coaching the QA team: planning sprint work, assigning tasks, tracking progress, removing blockers, and giving clear feedback to help team members grow.
• Own the quality of assigned modules end‑to‑end, get involved from requirements to release, and give a data‑backed go/no‑go view on release readiness.
• Build a simple, practical test strategy and prioritize testing by risk and business impact: what to test, what to automate, and what to skip.
• Set up and run regular calls with product, developers, and other stakeholders (planning, status, release readiness), and **escalate issues early.**
• Prioritize bugs by severity and impact, make sure critical bugs are fixed first, and run root‑cause analysis on escaped defects to fix process gaps.
• Define and track testing KPIs (defect leakage, automation coverage, requirement‑to‑test coverage, flaky test rate, and bug fix time).
• Use AI tools (e. g., ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot) across the testing process: drafting and reviewing test cases, generating test data, finding coverage gaps, summarizing bugs, and validating results. Guide the team to always check AI output before trusting it.
• Stay hands‑on with functional, regression, exploratory, API (e. g., Postman), and performance (JMeter) testing, and build automation using Playwright (or similar tools).
• Test AI features such as the chatbot, checking answers for relevance, tone, and handling of tricky or out‑of‑scope questions.

Requirements:

• Must have: 2+ years in automation testing and 1+ year leading a team.
• Experience with Jira, Playwright, or similar tools.
• Strong communication and decision‑making skills.