SDET Lead: Test Strategy, Automation & QA Leadership

Tata Consultancy Services; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive

Medical coverage

Family leaves

Insurance options

Commuter benefits

Training reimbursement

Vacation & holidays

Legal & financial aid

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Oakland, CA seeks a Test Lead to manage end-to-end testing across applications, ensuring quality and adherence to standards. The role emphasizes SDET capabilities, test planning, defect management, and stakeholder coordination with a focus on automation and manual testing.

Exposure to Tosca is preferred; you will mentor the team and coordinate with developers, analysts, and offshore units to deliver high-quality test cycles and sign-offs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading end-to-end testing in enterprise applications.
• Hands-on testing of APIs, services and UI across platforms.
• Familiarity with QA best practices and industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement test strategies, test plans, and test cases.
• Ensure comprehensive functional, integration, regression, performance, and UAT testing.
• Validate APIs, services, and map layers through manual and automated test cases.
• Perform cross-browser and cross-platform testing to ensure consistent application performance.
• Lead and mentor a testing team; coordinate with internal teams, vendors, and offshore units.
• Engage in client discussions, requirement analysis, and testing sign-offs to ensure business expectations are met.

Skills

Test leadership

Test strategy

Defect management

SDET

API testing

Manual testing

Cross-browser testing

Stakeholder coordination

Test planning

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

HP ALM

Tosca

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services in Oakland, CA seeks a Test Lead to manage end-to-end testing across applications, ensuring quality and adherence to standards. The role emphasizes SDET capabilities, test planning, defect management, and stakeholder coordination with a focus on automation and manual testing.

Exposure to Tosca is preferred; you will mentor the team and coordinate with developers, analysts, and offshore units to deliver high-quality test cycles and sign-offs.