Greatify
Website:
greatify.ai
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About the job:
Job Title: QA Lead
Location: Teynampet, Chennai
Job Type: Full-time
Experience Level: 9+ Years
Company: Gigadesk Technologies Pvt. Ltd. [Greatify]
Website: www.greatify.ai
Company Description:
At Greatify.ai, we are building a next-generation exam platform that delivers measurable academic outcomes at scale. We have powered 300K+ exams, generated 3M+ AI-driven questions, and AI-evaluated 50K+ answer sheets across 15+ universities and institutions. Our platform is transforming assessments with speed, accuracy, and intelligence—enabling institutions to conduct smarter, faster, and more reliable evaluations.
Job Description:
We are looking for a QA Lead to own and drive the quality strategy across our product suite. This role combines hands-on automation expertise with team leadership, process ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.
As a QA Lead, you will define testing standards, guide the QA team, ensure high test coverage across web and mobile platforms, and act as the quality gatekeeper for all releases.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Ownership
- Lead and mentor the QA team, including automation and manual testers
- Define QA strategy, test plans, and quality benchmarks across products
- Own release quality and provide go/no-go decisions for deployments
- Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, and DevOps teams
Test Management
- Own end-to-end test management including test planning, estimation, scheduling, scope definition, resource allocation, and execution tracking.
- Manage risk assessment, defect lifecycle processes, QA metrics tracking, documentation, and provide regular status reports to stakeholders.
Automation & Testing
- Oversee and contribute to automation using Playwright (Python) for web applications
- Guide mobile automation efforts using Appium (iOS & Android)
- Ensure comprehensive functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration, end-to-end (E2E), compatibility, and user acceptance (UAT) testing across web and iPad applications.
- Drive security testing to validate application security, authentication, authorization, and data protection.
- Review automation code for scalability, maintainability, and best practices
Process & Quality Improvement
- Establish and improve QA processes, documentation, and reporting
- Drive shift-left testing and early defect detection
- Ensure API testing coverage and support performance/load testing initiatives
- Track QA metrics, defect trends, and release health
- Continuously improve regression suites to ensure rapid and reliable release validation.
- Define quality gates and release readiness criteria for high-stakes examination deployments.
- Conduct root cause analysis for production defects and drive preventive quality improvements.
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Work with Product Managers to understand requirements and define acceptance criteria
- Communicate quality risks, timelines, and test results clearly to stakeholders
- Act as the single point of accountability for QA deliverables
Skills & Qualifications
Required Skills
- Strong experience in QA leadership and test management across multiple projects
- Proven expertise in test planning, estimation, risk management, and release governance
- Proficiency in Python-based test automation
- Hands-on experience with Playwright for web automation
- Strong experience in Functional, Regression, Security, API, Performance, Compatibility, and End-to-End testing.
- Experience with Appium for mobile automation
- Strong understanding of REST API testing (Postman / automation scripts)
- Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)
- Solid understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile methodologies, and defect lifecycle management
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