QA Lead Bengaluru Product Based Organization (India)

We are looking for a 6-9 years of QA or software testing experience, including leading QA efforts. Key Responsibilities: - What Youll Do: - Own the end-to-end quality strategy from test planning and automation architecture to release readiness and production monitoring. - Design, build, and scale robust test automation frameworks across UI, API, integration, and performance testing layers. - Define and enforce quality gates across the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring automated checks are embedded in every stage of delivery. - Lead and mentor a teamof QA engineers, fostering a culture of automation-first thinking, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence. - Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and design teams to shift quality left- catching issues early through better specs, reviews, and testing strategies. - Establish and track quality KPIs (defect escape rate, test coverage, automation ROI, MTTR) and report on quality health to leadership. - Drive performance and load testing initiatives to ensure Bruno scales reliably as the user base grows. - Champion best practices in test data management, environment management, and test infrastructure. - Evaluate and introduce modern QA tools and technologies that align with Brunos open-source, developer-first ethos. - Participate in incident reviews and root cause analysis, feeding learnings back into prevention-focused testing strategies. About You: - 7-9 years of experience in software quality engineering. - Deep expertise in test automation- hands-on experience building and maintaining automation frameworks using tools like Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or similar. - Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or similar languages for writing test scripts, utilities, and custom tooling. - Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and how to integrate automated testing seamlessly. - Experience with API testing tools and frameworks. - Proven ability to build quality processes from scratch in a rapid-paced, startup-like environment. - Excellent understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, and DevOps practices. - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills- you can translate quality metrics into business impact. - A product mindset-you care about the user experience, not just the test results. Bonus: - Experience with Electron-based applications or desktop software testing. - Familiarity with open-source projects and community-driven development workflows. - Hands-on experience with performance testing tools (k6, Locust, JMeter). - Experience testing developer tools, API clients, CLI tools, or similar developer-first products. - Exposure to AI-assisted testing tools or building test automation with GenAI capabilities. - Contributions to QA communities, blogs, or open-source testing frameworks We are looking for a 6-9 years of QA or software testing experience, including leading QA efforts. Key Responsibilities: - What Youll Do: - Own the end-to-end quality strategy from test planning and automation architecture to release readiness and production monitoring. - Design, build, and scale robust test automation frameworks across UI, API, integration, and performance testing layers. - Define and enforce quality gates across the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring automated checks are embedded in every stage of delivery. - Lead and mentor a teamof QA engineers, fostering a culture of automation-first thinking, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence. - Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and design teams to shift quality left- catching issues early through better specs, reviews, and testing strategies. - Establish and track quality KPIs (defect escape rate, test coverage, automation ROI, MTTR) and report on quality health to leadership. - Drive performance and load testing initiatives to ensure Bruno scales reliably as the user base grows. - Champion best practices in test data management, environment management, and test infrastructure. - Evaluate and introduce modern QA tools and technologies that align with Brunos open-source, developer-first ethos. - Participate in incident reviews and root cause analysis, feeding learnings back into prevention-focused testing strategies. About You: - 7-9 years of experience in software quality engineering. - Deep expertise in test automation- hands-on experience building and maintaining automation frameworks using tools like Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or similar. - Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or similar languages for writing test scripts, utilities, and custom tooling. - Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and how to integrate automated testing seamlessly. - Experience with API testing tools and frameworks. - Proven ability to build quality processes from scratch in a rapid-paced, startup-like environment. - Excellent understanding of s