QA Lead Professional

About The Company

Naviam partners with organisations worldwide to streamline their asset management journey through an unparalleled combination of expertise, innovative solutions, and unwavering commitment.

Born from the unification of seven industry leaders and backed by over three decades of experience, Naviam delivers cutting-edge enterprise asset management (EAM) solutions and services. Our approach is built on flexibility, collaboration, and partnership—allowing us to provide highly tailored solutions that dynamically evolve with our customers changing needs.

With our expanded scale and deep industry expertise, we navigate the complexities of modern asset management, introducing new ways of thinking and unlocking innovative technologies that drive impact and lasting value for organisations globally.

Main Purpose:

We are looking for an experienced QA Lead Professional to head our offshore quality

assurance team in Bangalore. In this role, you will lead and mentor a team of test

analysts and QA engineers, work closely with the Global QA Manager to develop and

implement QA processes across multiple product workstreams, and act as the

primary QA point of contact for onshore stakeholders. The ideal candidate combines

hands-on testing expertise with strong people leadership, is comfortable managing

competing priorities across projects, and is passionate about building a culture of

quality within a fast-paced, collaborative offshore delivery environment.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers and test analysts, overseeing day to-day test planning, execution, and workload distribution.
• Work closely with the QA Manager to develop, standardise, and roll out QA
  
  

processes across the offshore team, ensuring alignment with global quality

standards.

• Define and implement test strategy and test plans covering functional,
  
  

integration, regression, performance, and acceptance testing across product

releases.

• Own the defect management lifecycle end to end - triage, prioritisation, and
  
  

tracking to resolution in collaboration with development and product teams.

• Partner with onshore product managers, architects, and client stakeholders to
  
  

translate requirements into comprehensive test coverage.

• Drive the team's test automation strategy, evaluating and implementing
  
  

frameworks and tools to grow automated coverage and shorten regression

cycles.

• Establish and report QA metrics - test coverage, defect density, escape rate,
  
  

and cycle time - to leadership and client stakeholders.

• Manage release readiness sign-off, ensuring quality gates are consistently met
  
  

before production deployment.

• Coordinate QA resource planning and capacity allocation across multiple
  
  

concurrent client projects.

• Champion Agile/Scrum QA best practices, including sprint-level test planning
  
  

and continuous-improvement retrospectives.

• Maintain and continuously improve test documentation, QA standards, and
  
  

knowledge repositories for the offshore team.

Skill Requirements - Essential:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related
  
  

field (or equivalent professional experience).

• 8+ years of experience in software QA/testing, including at least 2 years in a QA
  
  

lead or team lead capacity

• Proven experience managing and mentoring a team of test
  
  

engineers/analysts within an offshore delivery model.

• Strong command of testing methodologies, including functional, integration,
  
  

regression, performance, and UAT testing.

• Hands-on experience with defect tracking systems (e.g., Jira, Bugzilla) and
  
  

version control systems (e.g., Git).

• Working knowledge of test automation frameworks and scripting (e.g.,
  
  

Selenium, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, or similar).

• Experience defining test strategy documents and building/reporting QA
  
  

metrics for leadership and clients.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, comfortable engaging directly with
  
  

onshore (UK/US) clients.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills, able to collaborate effectively
  
  

with technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to prioritise tasks, manage competing priorities, and adapt to changing
  
  

requirements across multiple concurrent projects.

• Strong working knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies and ceremonies
  
  

Skill Requirements - Preferable:

• DevOps methodology experience, including CI/CD pipeline integration for
  
  

automated testing.

• ISTQB or equivalent QA/testing certification.
• Maximo knowledge required to help plan and execute numerous projects.
• Experience working within a cost-plus offshore delivery or managed-services
  
  

model.

Person Specification/Attributes:

• Professional and committed, with a disciplined approach to work
• A natural leader, motivated and driven by finding and providing solutions to
  
  

problems.

• Polite, tactful, helpful, empathic nature, able to deliver to the needs of
  
  

customers and team members alike.

• Has respect for others and their views, and fosters a collaborative team culture.
• Technology minded and focused, enthusiastic about technologies.
• Analytical, able to rise from the detail and see the bigger picture across
  
  

projects.

• Dedicated to continually updating and upgrading own knowledge, and that of
  
  

the team.

• Carries a mind-set of continuous improvement, constantly looking for better
  
  

and more efficient ways of doing things.

• Values quality at the centre of all things in work
  
  

Naviam is committed to fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

We invite qualified candidates to apply for this opportunity to lead our offshore QA

team and contribute to our continued success