Company - Arcitech

Location - Turbhe, Navi Mumbai (On site)

Experience - 6 years+

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About Arcitech

Arcitech is an enterprise AI automation and software development company building production

software for clients and for our own AI-native products — several of which handle payments,

children's education data, recorded customer conversations, and healthcare information. Quality

is central to our reputation and, on these products, to our legal and compliance standing. We

are building out a serious QA function and need a senior leader to anchor it.

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

owning 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 team's 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.

Arcitech | Senior QA Engineer (Testing Team Lead) |

• Leading and mentoring the testing team. Raise the team's 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 tester's 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.

Leadership & Quality Independence

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 else's 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 team's standard, give direct

feedback, and hold testers accountable.

• Integrity and independence. You hold the quality line under pressure and protect your

team's ability to do the same.

• Tooling. Strong with defect/issue tracking and test management (Zoho, Jira, or similar).

Preferred (Not Required)

• Ability to define and introduce a test-automation strategy over time (even if the current

need is manual).

• Domain experience in payments, healthcare, edtech, or products handling children's data.

• ISTQB Advanced (or equivalent) certification.

• Exposure to API testing and performance testing.

Interview Process

Our hiring process has multiple stages:

1. An initial conversation with our HR team.

2. An AI-led video screening interview about your background and QA leadership

experience.

3. A practical exercise covering both craft and leadership: design a test strategy and

coverage approach for a sample complex feature, and walk through how you would raise

the standard of an underperforming testing team.

4. A final discussion with the CEO.

We are assessing genuine leadership and test-strategy depth — be ready to walk through a QA

process you built, a team you raised, and an escaped defect you root-caused and fixed.

Why Join Arcitech

• Own and build the QA function for high-stakes products going to market — real scope, not

a maintenance role.

• Lead a team and set the standard, with leadership that genuinely backs QA

independence.

• Shape test strategy and, over time, the automation roadmap.

Collaborative, growth-focused environment with Provident Fund and employee benefits.

Senior Quality Assurance Tester