QA Lead / Quality Engineering Lead

About the role

Neuron7.ai is an AI-first SaaS company building a Service Intelligence platform that helps enterprises make accurate service decisions in seconds. The QA Lead / Quality Engineering Lead will own and drive the quality strategy, designing and maintaining modern test automation frameworks while collaborating with engineering, product, and DevOps teams. This hands-on leadership role is based in Bengaluru and follows a hybrid work model.

What you’ll do

• Own the overall QA and test automation strategy across products and releases
• Design, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end automation frameworks using Playwright
• Develop automated functional, regression, integration, and cross-browser test suites
• Establish appropriate testing across the UI, API, integration, and data layers
• Define test plans, test cases, acceptance criteria, regression strategies, and release-quality gates
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and enable reliable testing as part of every build and deployment
• Work closely with developers to identify issues earlier in the development lifecycle and promote shift-left testing practices
• Build and maintain API test automation for REST APIs and other service integrations

What you’ll bring

• 8-10 years of experience in software quality engineering, QA automation, or related roles, including experience leading QA initiatives or teams
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright for modern web application automation
• Strong programming experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Java, or a comparable language
• Experience designing automation frameworks rather than only writing individual automated test cases
• Strong understanding of API testing and tools/frameworks such as Postman, REST Assured, Playwright API testing, or equivalent
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD environments such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar
• Strong knowledge of functional, integration, regression, smoke, exploratory, and end-to-end testing methodologies
• Experience with cross-browser and responsive application testing

Nice to have

• Experience with performance and load testing using tools such as k6, JMeter, or equivalent
• Experience testing applications built using modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-based environments
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience testing distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with observability platforms and using logs, metrics, and traces for troubleshooting
• Experience with accessibility and security testing
• Exposure to AI/LLM-based applications and approaches for testing non-deterministic AI systems is a plus

Skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, and spot bonuses
• Paid sick leave
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Work from our vibrant Bengaluru office