Qualys

Lead QA Engineer

India · Work style not stated · Full time

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EmployerQualys
LocationIndia
Work styleWork style not stated
Employment typeFull time
Employer posted13 Oct 2026

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Qualys is looking for a Lead QA Engineer to own quality for products in the Cybersecurity and Compliance domain used by thousands of enterprise customers.

You will act as a senior individual contributor and technical mentor for QA and automation engineers. You will define the test strategy across UI, backend, and data pipelines, and drive the move toward AI-assisted, self-healing automation. This is a hands-on technical role: you set quality direction, influence release decisions, and actively write and review framework code. Candidates who have built or meaningfully enhanced AI-based self-healing automation tools will stand out.

Responsibilities

QA Mentorship & Strategy

Mentor and guide QA and automation engineers through technical coaching, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Define and own the end-to-end test strategy for legacy components by improving automation coverage, while ensuring all new components are fully automated from the start.
Act as the quality voice in sprint planning, design reviews, and release readiness; make data-backed go/no-go recommendations.
Establish scalable QA processes: defect triage, severity/priority standards, regression tiers, test case management, and root-cause analysis for escaped defects.
Track and report quality metrics (defect leakage, automation coverage, flaky-test rate, mean time to detect, release cycle time) to engineering and product leadership.
Partner closely with Development, Product, Support, and Sustenance teams to shift quality left and reduce customer-reported issues.

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Test Automation (Hands-On)

- Architect and evolve automation frameworks across React/TypeScript front ends, Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, and Kafka-based pipelines.

- Own API and contract testing (REST Assured, Pact, Postman/Newman) covering OAuth2, JWT, token, and Basic auth flows, pagination, throttling, and vendor error handling.

- Own CI/CD quality gates in Jenkins or GitHub Actions with fast PR-level feedback and tiered regression runs.

AI-Driven & Self-Healing Automation

- Lead the design and rollout of self-healing automation: automatic locator recovery, DOM-similarity scoring, element fingerprinting, and confidence-based fallback that keeps suites green through UI changes.

- Apply LLMs across the QA lifecycle — generating test cases from requirements and API specs, converting manual tests to automated scripts, summarizing failures, and suggesting root causes from logs.

- Build intelligent flaky-test detection, failure classification, and auto-quarantine to separate real regressions from environmental noise.

- Set guardrails for AI use in QA — validating AI-generated tests, measuring healing accuracy, and preventing false passes.

Qualifications

Experience

- 8-10+ years in QA / test engineering, with at least 2 years leading or mentoring a QA team.

- Proven track record of building automation frameworks from scratch and owning release quality for a SaaS product.

- Hands-on experience building, extending, or productionizing an AI-based or self-healing automation solution, with the ability to explain how you measured its impact.

Skills

Automation & Testing

- Robot, Playwright and/or Selenium 4; TestNG or JUnit 5; Cypress, Jest, or Vitest

- API automation: REST Assured, Postman/Newman, schema validation

- Contract testing (Pact), service virtualization, and mocking (WireMock or similar)

- Performance testing with JMeter, k6, or Gatling

- Visual regression and accessibility testing

Programming & Backend

- Python, Java(17+) and JavaScript/TypeScript

- SQL and data validation on Oracle or similar

- Familiarity with microservices, Spring Boot, and Kafka (or other event streaming systems)

AI in QA

- Self-healing locator strategies and intelligent element matching

- LLM integration: prompt design, structured outputs, and embedding model calls into test tooling

- AI-assisted test generation, failure clustering, and log/trace summarization

- Familiarity with RAG or vector search over test artifacts is a plus

- Working knowledge of AI testing platforms (Healenium, Applitools, mabl, Testim)

DevOps & Tooling

- CI/CD with Jenkins or GitHub Actions

- Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals

- Test management (Jira/Xray, TestRail, or Zephyr)

- Observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK) for test and pipeline diagnostics

Technical Mentorship

Strong ability to mentor engineers through technical guidance and code reviews
Clear communication with engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders
Data-driven decision-making on quality and release readiness

Preferred

- Background in cybersecurity — vulnerability management, Policy Compliance

- Experience testing multi-tenant SaaS at large data volumes.

- Open-source contributions to testing or automation projects.

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