Quality Engineering Lead

Location: Pune

Project Role : Quality Engineering Lead

Project Role Description : Leads a team of quality engineers through multi-disciplinary team planning and ecosystem integration to accelerate delivery and drive quality across the application lifecycle. Applies business and functional knowledge to develop end-to-end testing strategies through the use of quality processes and methodologies. Applies testing methodologies, principles and processes to define and implement key metrics to manage and assess the testing process including test execution and defect resolution.

Must have skills : Automated Testing

Good to have skills : NA

Minimum 3 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary

As a Quality Engineering Lead, a typical day involves guiding a team of quality engineers by coordinating multi-disciplinary planning and integrating various ecosystem components to enhance delivery speed and maintain high standards of quality throughout the application lifecycle. The role requires applying comprehensive business and functional insights to design and implement thorough testing strategies. Throughout the day, the lead oversees the application of testing methodologies and quality processes, ensuring that key performance metrics are established and monitored to evaluate test execution and defect management effectively.

Collaboration and strategic oversight are central to driving continuous improvement and delivering reliable software solutions.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Drive the end-to-end software quality assurance lifecycle within an Agile environment, from test strategy and planning through execution and reporting
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks and suites across UI, API, data, and integration layers (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, REST-assured, JUnit/TestNG, Cucumber, Robot Framework, PyTest)
• Develop and maintain test automation for Java/Spring Boot services and REST APIs, including regression, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Contribute to Java development (feature development, bug fixing, code reviews), working closely with engineers on Spring Boot microservices, when required.
• Design test strategies, test plans, and functional use cases based on business and technical requirements, ensuring full coverage of critical HR and analytics use cases.
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, data engineers, and developers to understand requirements and translate them into effective test scenarios
• Work with data and integration components including Databricks, Azure Data Factory (ADF), and DVP, validating data flows, transformations, and interfaces.
• Implement and/or enhance AI-driven and intelligent test solutions (e.g. smart test selection, self-healing tests, ML-based test analytics) where applicable.
• Ensure high-quality documentation of test strategies, test cases, test data, and test results, and contribute to technical documentation where needed
• Proactively identify quality risks, defects, and process improvements, and drive their resolution with the team

Professional & Technical Skills

4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including

• Strong Java development skills, ideally with Spring Boot (microservices, REST APIs)
• Experience developing code using Python would be plus point.
• Manual and automated testing across unit, integration, system, and end-to-end functional testing
• Test automation frameworks and web testing frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright
• API testing and integration testing

4+ years of experience in software testing, including

• Solid experience designing and implementing test automation frameworks (e.g. JUnit/TestNG, Cucumber/BDD, Robot Framework, PyTest, or similar)
• Experience with data-centric and integration testing, ideally involving Databricks, Azure Data Factory (ADF), DVP, and REST APIs
• Familiarity with AI-driven or intelligent test automation solutions (e.g. ML-based test selection, self-healing locators, test analytics) is a strong plus
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous delivery practices.

Hands-on experience with

• Version control: Azure Gitlab
• CI/CD: Azure Gitlab CI/CD and UBS Deploy (or similar tool).
• Defect tracking and test management: Gitlab, Squash (or similar tools)
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into test strategies, test plans, and functional use cases
• Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail.
• Proactive, self-driven, and comfortable taking ownership of quality topics across the lifecycle
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a global, cross-functional team
• Understanding of the HR domain is an advantage

Additional Information

• The candidate should have minimum 4 years of experience in Automated Testing.
• This position is based at our Pune Kharadi office and 3 days WFO every week is mandatory.
• A 15 years full time education is required.

15 years full time education

About Accenture

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