Lead QA Engineer
Qualys, Inc.1 day ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and own end-to-end test strategy, automation coverage, regression tiers, defect processes, and release-readiness standards.
- Mentor QA and automation engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Architect and evolve automation frameworks for React/TypeScript front ends, Java/Spring Boot services, REST APIs, and Kafka-based pipelines.
- Own API and contract testing, including REST Assured, Pact, Postman/Newman, authentication flows, pagination, throttling, and vendor error handling.
- Build and maintain CI/CD quality gates with Jenkins or GitHub Actions and tiered regression execution.
- Design and roll out self-healing automation using locator recovery, DOM similarity scoring, element fingerprinting, and confidence-based fallback.
- Apply LLMs to test generation, manual-test conversion, failure summarization, root-cause suggestions, and QA workflow automation.
- Develop flaky-test detection, failure classification, auto-quarantine, and guardrails for validating AI-generated tests and preventing false passes.
- Track and report quality metrics such as defect leakage, automation coverage, flaky-test rate, mean time to detect, and release cycle time.
- Partner with Development, Product, Support, and Sustenance teams to shift quality left and reduce customer-reported issues.
Requirements
- 8–10+ years of experience in QA or test engineering, including at least 2 years leading or mentoring a QA team.
- Proven experience building automation frameworks from scratch and owning release quality for a SaaS product.
- Hands-on experience building, extending, or productionizing an AI-based or self-healing automation solution and measuring its impact.
- Experience with Robot, Playwright and/or Selenium 4, TestNG or JUnit 5, and Cypress, Jest, or Vitest.
- Experience with API automation, REST Assured, Postman/Newman, schema validation, Pact, service virtualization, and mocking tools such as WireMock.
- Experience with performance testing using JMeter, k6, or Gatling, plus visual regression and accessibility testing.
- Programming experience with Python, Java 17+, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience with SQL and data validation on Oracle or similar databases.
- Familiarity with microservices, Spring Boot, Kafka or other event-streaming systems, and authentication technologies including OAuth2 and JWT.
- Experience integrating LLMs into test tooling through prompt design, structured outputs, and model calls; familiarity with self-healing locators, AI-assisted test generation, failure clustering, and log or trace summarization.
- Experience with Jenkins or GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, test-management tools, and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or ELK.
- Strong technical mentorship, communication, and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Preferred qualifications include cybersecurity experience in vulnerability management or Policy Compliance, testing multi-tenant SaaS at large data volumes, open-source testing contributions, familiarity with RAG or vector search, and experience with Healenium, Applitools, mabl, or Testim.
Tech Stack
Apache JMeterApache KafkaCypressDockerGitHub ActionsGrafanaJavaJavaScriptJenkinsJestJUnitKubernetesPostmanPrometheusPythonReactRobot FrameworkSeleniumSpring BootSQLTestNGTypeScript
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About Qualys, Inc.
Qualys builds a cloud-based security and compliance platform used by enterprises to automate vulnerability management, IT asset visibility, web application scanning, and policy/PCI compliance across on‑prem and cloud environments. Delivered as subscription SaaS, its Enterprise TruRisk Platform uses a single agent to provide continuous security telemetry for endpoints, servers, containers, and clouds. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Qualys is a public company trading on NASDAQ (QLYS).