QA Lead

Role overview

QA Lead at Sterlite Technologies

Role Specification Role Description We are looking for a Test Lead to define and drive the end-to-end QA strategy for our AI-powered platform.

Responsibilities

• You will lead a team of testers, collaborate cross-functionally, and build automation pipelines aligned with CI/CD practices.
• Design test cases with focus on modularity, reusability, and traceability to requirements.
• Perform accuracy testing, A/B comparison, drift detection, and model regression checks.
• Test model integration in real-time pipelines (latency, fault tolerance, failover behavior).
• Test REST/gRPC endpoints, data transformations, streaming services (Kafka), and storage layers (PostgreSQL, Redis).
• Design load, concurrency, and recovery tests for backend services.
• Ensure responsiveness, accessibility, and data consistency in real-time dashboards.
• Collaborate with ML, backend, frontend, and product teams to review requirements and raise quality gates.
• Drive root cause analysis and support release readiness with QA sign-off.

Required qualifications

• What we are looking for in you (Skills, Knowledge, Special Attributes, Mobility) 4 years in software testing with at least 1 years in a lead role.

Employment details

• Location Aurangabad
• Location: Waluj [India]

Additional role details

• This role involves testing components across the stack-including ML models/backend , backend services , and frontend interfaces -to ensure accuracy, performance, security, and reliability.
• Role Title SW QA Engineer/Tester Role Purpose What the role entails (Key Responsibilities) Test Strategy & Planning Define and own the comprehensive test plan for ML inference, backend workflows, and frontend user experience.
• Identify test scenarios for real-time sensor data pipelines, anomaly/event detection, historical playback, and UI s/configs.
• Define and track test coverage, maintain regression test suites, and handle test data design.
• ML Model Testing Validate ML outputs (event classification, anomaly scores) against labeled test datasets.
• Backend & API Testing Validate backend APIs that consume ML outputs, transform data, and expose events to the UI.
• Frontend Testing Verify UI correctness for event visualization, timeline navigation, and control tools.
• Automate UI workflows using tools like Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium.
• Automation & DevOps Alignment Lead setup of test automation pipelines integrated with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
• Own the implementation of smoke, sanity, regression, and performance suites.
• Collaborate with DevOps for observability in test environments, test parallelization, and reporting.
• Leadership & Collaboration Mentor QA engineers and drive best testing practices across the platform.
• Experience testing ML model pipelines, data-driven APIs, and real-time UI platforms.
• Strong command over test design techniques, risk-based testing, and shift-left testing practices.
• Proficient in Python or JavaScript for writing automation scripts.
• Hands-on with tools such as Postman, JMeter, Pytest, Cypress, or Playwright.
• Familiarity with Kafka, REST/gRPC, Docker, and Linux environments.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, test versioning, and defect lifecycle management tools (e.g., JIRA, TestRail).
• Experience with model explainability testing (SHAP, LIME) or model monitoring tools.
• Exposure to edge device testing, cloud deployments (GCP), and real-time event handling systems.
• Knowledge of performance engineering and security testing basics.