Arcolab - Quality Assurance Lead - Manual/Automation Testing

**Summary :

We are looking for a highly motivated QA Lead with strong expertise in Automation Testing and CI/CD implementation. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading automation initiatives across multiple products, mentoring QA engineers, driving automation best practices, integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring high-quality software releases. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with a primary focus on automation.

**Technical Skills :

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance.

• Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience in Automation Testing.

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in Manual Testing.

• Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation and management.

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in either: Selenium with Java, or Playwright with TypeScript.

• Strong understanding of automation framework design and architecture.

• Experience with TestNG, JUnit, or equivalent testing frameworks.

• Experience with API automation is an added advantage.

• Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience in CI/CD implementation and maintenance :

• Jenkins

• Azure DevOps Pipelines

• GitHub Actions

• GitLab CI/CD

• Bamboo (preferred but optional)

• Experience integrating automation suites into CI/CD pipelines.

• Git

• GitHub / GitLab / Azure Repositories

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in : Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Test Planning, Defect Management.

• Strong technical mentoring and coaching abilities.

• Ability to guide team members in resolving automation and CI/CD issues.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong ownership and accountability.

• Ability to manage multiple products and priorities simultaneously.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Experience with test management tools such as Jira, Xray, Zephyr, or TestRail.

• Exposure to cloud-based testing environments.

• Knowledge of performance or security testing is a plus.

**Key Responsibilities :

• Lead the automation testing efforts across multiple products.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks.

• Guide and mentor QA engineers on automation best practices and troubleshooting.

• Review automation scripts to ensure quality, maintainability, and coding standards.

• Drive automation coverage for functional and regression testing.

• Build, configure, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated test execution.

• Integrate automated test suites into the software delivery pipeline.

• Analyze automation execution results and drive defect resolution.

• Collaborate with Development, DevOps, Product Management, and Business teams to ensure quality throughout the SDLC.

• Estimate automation efforts and define execution plans to meet project timelines.

• Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement automation strategies to improve release efficiency.

• Ensure automation suites remain stable, maintainable, and reusable.

**Success Criteria :

• Drive and improve automation coverage across products.

• Ensure stable and reliable automation execution through CI/CD pipelines.

• Mentor and enable the QA team to become self-sufficient in automation.

• Improve automation quality, execution speed, and maintainability.

• Contribute to faster, high-quality software releases through automation-first practice.