Lead Software Test Engineer

Overview

Lead software testing and verification for complex software, owning test strategy, execution, defect resolution and release readiness, and mentoring others in quality engineering.

What you'll do

• Define and drive software testing and verification strategies, ensuring comprehensive coverage across functional, integration, system, regression, exploratory, and risk-based testing.
• Design, review, and execute test scenarios and test cases.
• Lead integration and end-to-end testing, analyze failures, and drive effective defect resolution.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, product owners, and other stakeholders to identify quality risks, requirement gaps, traceability issues, and testability concerns early in the development lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring in software testing and quality engineering, driving best practices, continuous improvement, and release-readiness assessments.
• Improve testing processes, methodologies, tools, and efficiency, including leveraging AI-assisted testing for test design, automation, failure analysis, and overall software quality.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline.
• Long-standing experience in software testing, verification, or software quality engineering, including experience taking technical ownership of complex testing activities.
• Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies, including functional, integration, system, regression, exploratory, and risk-based testing, with experience defining test strategies and release-readiness criteria.
• Experience in requirements analysis, test scenario and test case design, requirements-to-test traceability, software integration, and end-to-end testing, including troubleshooting issues across software components and interfaces.
• Strong experience in defect management, root-cause analysis, and quality risk assessment, using tools such as Azure DevOps, ALM, or equivalent.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home; details provided by the interview team.