Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
Thermo Fisher Scientific11 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead functional, regression, end-to-end, and User Acceptance Testing for complex software applications and business workflows.
- Define test strategies, approaches, scenarios, cases, test data, coverage, and quality standards.
- Design and maintain automated desktop GUI tests using Squish GUI Tester.
- Develop and maintain browser automation and Pytest-based frameworks using Playwright and Python.
- Integrate automated regression suites into CI/CD pipelines and support headless and parallel execution.
- Execute tests, analyze results and failures, document evidence, and manage defects through resolution.
- Conduct defect triage, verify fixes, and coordinate issue resolution with development and product teams.
- Support UAT, validate integrations, monitor quality metrics, and provide release-readiness recommendations.
- Review test and automation architecture, mentor QA engineers, and drive continuous improvement in testing practices.
Requirements
- 12–15 years of overall experience in software testing and quality assurance.
- Strong experience with functional, regression, end-to-end, and enterprise application testing.
- Hands-on experience with Squish GUI Tester for desktop automation.
- Hands-on experience with Playwright, preferably using Python, and Pytest framework development.
- Strong Python scripting skills and experience designing scalable automation frameworks with reusable abstractions, page-object patterns, configuration, logging, and reporting.
- Experience integrating automated tests with CI/CD and version-control workflows and diagnosing application, data, automation, and environment failures.
- Experience with defect and test management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, ALM, or equivalent.
- Experience supporting UAT, requirements traceability, risk-based testing, business workflow validation, and root cause analysis.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and communicating quality risks and release concerns.
- Preferred experience testing large-scale scientific, healthcare, engineering, or data-intensive applications; REST APIs, backend integrations, databases, SQL, Postman, accessibility, usability, performance, security, and regulated environments.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Benefits
- Standard Monday–Friday work schedule in an office environment.
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific builds analytical instruments, lab equipment and consumables, specialty diagnostics, and provides pharma services (CDMO and clinical research) for biotech, pharma, academic, and healthcare customers. It earns revenue through product sales, e-commerce distribution (Fisher Scientific), and contract services under brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Patheon, and PPD. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (TMO) and was created by the 2006 merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific.