QA & Testing Lead

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 10 years

Location: Remote (India)

JobType: full-time

The QA & Testing Lead will own end-to-end quality assurance for large-scale digital banking and payment platforms. This role is responsible for defining the overall testing strategy, driving automation initiatives, leading QA teams, and ensuring stable, secure, and high-quality releases across USSD, web, API, and transaction switch systems in high-volume environments.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and continuously improve the overall QA and testing strategy.
• Lead automation, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing initiatives.
• Plan and execute performance, load, and stress testing for mission-critical, high-throughput systems.
• Ensure quality across USSD applications, web portals, APIs, and ISO-based transaction switch platforms.
• Lead, mentor, and manage teams of manual and automation QA engineers.
• Integrate automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Drive release readiness activities, including defect triage, quality metrics, and risk assessment reporting.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams to align on quality goals.
• Ensure testing best practices, documentation, and compliance with industry standards.

Required Skills & Expertise

• Strong experience in digital banking, fintech, or payment processing systems.
• Hands-on expertise with automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Rest Assured, Postman, and Cucumber.
• Experience with performance and load testing tools like JMeter or Gatling.
• Strong knowledge of API and integration testing.
• Familiarity with ISO 8583 messaging and TCP/IP-based transaction systems (preferred).
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps, Git, and Maven.
• Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes environments is a plus.

Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance.
• 5+ years of experience in a QA Lead or Test Lead role managing complex systems.
• Proven experience leading QA teams in fast-paced, high-availability environments.

Key Competencies

• Strong leadership, mentoring, and team management capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Ability to drive quality in high-pressure release cycles.
• Structured, detail-oriented, and results-driven approach.