Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead the definition and execution of test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing.
- Build and maintain automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines to improve test velocity and reliability.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure testable requirements and early QA involvement in the development cycle.
- Own release quality assurance through defect triaging, regression testing, and final release sign-off.
- Define, track, and report quality metrics such as defect leakage, test coverage, and build health.
- Conduct performance and basic security testing where applicable.
- Mentor junior QA team members and promote best practices in test design and execution.
- Continuously improve QA processes through retrospective analysis and implementation of shift-left testing principles.
- Ensure comprehensive documentation of test cases, bug reports, QA strategies, and quality incident postmortems.
