Quality Assurance Engineering Manager

Job Description

About Licious We are Licious and we are a Bengaluru-based meat and seafood company founded in 2015 by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, our founders, foodies, and friends. We pride ourselves on being India’s most successful D2C food-tech brand operating in 20 cities across the country delighting over 32 lac customers with our de-licious fresh meat and seafood! About the Role As an Engineering Manager - SDET/QA, you will lead our Quality Engineering team, playing a pivotal role in ensuring the highest quality, reliability, and scalability of our products. You'll drive strategic direction, implement advanced automation frameworks, and establish best practices while fostering a collaborative and quality-focused culture. Key Responsibilities Define and implement the organization's overall QA and test automation strategy across applications, APIs, and services. Lead the architecture and development of scalable and maintainable test automation frameworks. Oversee and enhance CI/CD pipelines to integrate continuous testing effectively. Develop and enforce performance, scalability, and security testing strategies. Champion Shift Left Testing by collaborating closely with development teams. Recruit, mentor, and manage a team of SDETs and QA engineers, guiding them on automation best practices, test strategies, and debugging techniques. Drive high-quality software releases through detailed test planning, execution of regression, integration, and functional tests. Integrate AI/ML techniques for predictive and intelligent testing methodologies. Promote best practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). Regularly monitor, analyze, and report test outcomes, defect metrics, and quality trends to stakeholders. Cultivate a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement within the engineering organization. Skills & Qualifications 8 To 10+ years of experience in software testing, automation, and quality assurance, with at least 3+ years in a managerial role. Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages: Java/ Python Proven expertise with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, TestNG, JUnit, or Cucumber. Extensive experience with CI/CD processes, DevOps principles, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP). Demonstrated knowledge of performance testing tools like JMeter, Gatling, k6, or Locust. Familiarity with security testing standards and tools (e.g., OWASP, Burp Suite, ZAP). Hands-on experience in API testing using Postman, RestAssured, Karate, or similar tools. Solid understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL) and data validation practices. Exceptional analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting capabilities. Strong leadership skills with the ability to effectively collaborate across multiple cross-functional teams. Preferred Qualifications Experience utilizing AI-driven test automation tools. Previous involvement in testing large-scale distributed systems and microservices architectures. Proficiency in container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and Infrastructure as Code solutions (Terraform, Ansible). Exposure to predictive analytics in quality engineering and proactive issue identification. Show more Show less