Test Lead

Required Experience and Core Skills:

• 10+ years in software testing/quality engineering, including demonstrated Test Lead or equivalent ownership.
• Strong functional testing across complex enterprise/web applications and integrated business workflows.
• Deep REST/JSON API testing including authentication, schemas/contracts, negative/error cases and regression automation.
• Strong SQL/database validation for state, integrity, transformations and cross-system reconciliation.
• Expert test strategy, planning, design, execution, regression, defect management, closure, STLC/SDLC and Agile delivery.
• Confident stakeholder communication and extensive JIRA/Confluence (or equivalent) experience for governance and traceability.

Automation, CI/CD and AI:

• Design and evolve frameworks: architecture, reusable components, configuration, reporting, logging, data, parallelism and maintainability.
• Hands-on Playwright (or equivalent), REST Assured (or equivalent), JDBC/DB automation and diversified patterns across system layers.
• Integrate suites with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or equivalent using quality gates, reporting and diagnostics; understand Docker/containerized execution.
• Use AI coding agents to build/refactor tests and frameworks; apply AI to strategy, planning, risk analysis and reviewed test-case generation.
• Protect sensitive data, validate generated code/output, preserve auditability and keep human governance in the loop.

Preferred:

• Airline operations: crew, IROP/disruption, flight operations, scheduling/planning or operational control.
• Testing AI/agentic products; AutoGen/LangGraph concepts; RAG, vector retrieval, grounding and evaluation.
• Cloud/AWS integration, mobile, event-driven/distributed systems and awareness of performance, resilience, security and accessibility testing.

Expected Outcomes:

• Auditable governance and accountable sign-off; stronger multi-layer regression and CI adoption; scalable automation; responsible AI-assisted workflows; improved defect prevention and release predictability; stronger team capability.