Lead/Senior Consultant - Automation QE 🇮🇳

Accountabilities:

• • Lead Quality Engineering strategy and promote best practices across projects, ensuring quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Champion a “bake quality in” approach by coaching teams and helping engineers adopt effective testing, automation, Agile, Lean, and Continuous Delivery practices.
  • Provide technical guidance on functional and non-functional testing strategies, frameworks, automation approaches, and quality processes.
  • Work closely with delivery teams from discovery and inception through development, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement.
  • Design, build, and maintain robust automated testing frameworks and provide hands-on QE expertise across projects.
  • Develop and improve QE programs, processes, standards, and training initiatives to strengthen team capabilities.
  • Identify quality, delivery, and technical risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities for process improvement, contributing practical solutions to avoid project roadblocks.
  • Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and provide strategic advice on testing, quality methodologies, and continuous improvement.
  • Mentor and coach QEs and other technical team members, encouraging knowledge sharing, collaboration, and professional development.
  • Contribute to recruitment, capability development, and retention of QE professionals.
  • Support the technical roadmap by identifying opportunities to improve engineering practices, automation, scalability, and delivery quality.
  • Contribute to thought leadership through industry presentations, technical content, blogs, social media initiatives, meetups, conferences, and professional forums.
  • Promote a collaborative, innovative, and growth-oriented engineering culture while acting as an advocate for quality across client and internal teams.

  Requirements

  • 7–8 years of professional experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, Test Automation, or a closely related discipline.
  • Strong experience with object-oriented programming and professional proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript.
  • Extensive hands-on experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks.
  • Strong experience with modern automation and performance testing tools such as Playwright, Cypress, WebDriver, Appium, and Gatling.
  • Experience creating test strategies, test plans, automation approaches, and quality assurance frameworks.
  • Strong experience with automated API and web-service testing, including Postman, REST/API testing, XML, and JSON.
  • Experience with test data management and test environment management.
  • Practical experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and working with modern DevOps practices.
  • Exposure to cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Basic understanding of DevOps technologies and practices, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
  • Experience writing and working with SQL queries.
  • Strong understanding of QE, QA, Agile, Lean, Continuous Delivery, and software development lifecycle practices.
  • Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, and developing other team members.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to work effectively in a consultancy or client-facing environment and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.
  • Passion for emerging testing technologies and a commitment to continuously improving quality engineering practices.
  • A proactive, delivery-focused mindset with the ability to balance strategic leadership and hands-on technical contribution.

  Benefits

  • Fully remote working arrangement from India with no regular office attendance required.
  • Permanent full-time opportunity through an Employer of Record.
  • Opportunity to work across diverse industries, including finance, retail, construction, logistics, and utilities.
  • Exposure to modern cloud-native applications, digital platforms, automation frameworks, and contemporary engineering practices.
  • Collaboration with experienced architects, engineers, delivery leaders, and technical specialists.
  • Strong focus on ownership, innovation, continuous improvement, curiosity, and knowledge sharing.
  • Ongoing professional development, mentoring, and career growth opportunities.
  • Supportive and collaborative working environment designed to encourage learning and technical growth.
  • Provident Fund and Welfare Fund.
  • 18 days of annual leave.
  • 7 days of casual leave.
  • 7 days of sick leave.
  • 8 public holidays, including national and optional holidays.
  • Health insurance coverage for the employee plus coverage for up to one dependent.
  • Flexible working arrangements designed to support a healthy and productive remote-work experience.