QA Lead

Drive and continuously improve QA processes, standards, and testing approaches across multiple teams. Define and implement QA strategy, testing scope, quality standards, and risk assessment. Participate in planning, requirements analysis, estimation, and release readiness. Build and maintain testing documentation, including test strategies and quality standards. Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders throughout the SDLC. Lead distributed QA teams, mentor engineers, support their professional development, and conduct technical interviews. Experience defining, collecting, and analyzing QA metrics to drive continuous improvement. Collect and analyze quality metrics to identify improvement opportunities. Participate in production incident investigation and root cause analysis. Drive continuous improvements in engineering and QA practices across teams. Support the integration of automation into the overall QA process and testing strategy. Requirements 3+ years of experience in a QA Lead or similar leadership role. Proven experience improving QA processes and implementing quality standards. Strong experience defining testing strategies across multiple teams and services. Strong knowledge of test design techniques and software testing methodologies. Experience with functional, integration, regression, smoke, exploratory, and acceptance testing. Solid experience with manual API testing using Postman, Swagger, or similar tools. Experience analyzing datab