Lead QE

About the Role: Lead Quality Engineer

Join a highly motivated, agile, and collaborative DataGen team at S&P Global Corporate, delivering impactful data-driven solutions. We are a people-first organization passionate about agility, flexibility, and diversity. As a Lead Quality Engineer (Grade 11), you will partner with developers, analysts, product owners, and other stakeholders to drive the quality of our innovative web applications and data platforms.

Responsibilities and Impact:

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of test automation frameworks for full-stack web applications (React, .NET Core, Postgres, NoSQL) and data pipelines (Databricks).
• Define and execute comprehensive test strategies across UI, API, backend, and data layers, ensuring coverage of functional, integration, regression, and performance scenarios.
• Collaborate closely with developers and DevOps to embed quality throughout CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployments on AWS.
• Mentor and guide junior QE team members, fostering best practices in test automation, exploratory testing, and quality metrics analysis.
• Actively participate in architectural and design discussions, influencing solutions for enhanced testability, reliability, and scalability.
• Drive the adoption of shift-left testing, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), and robust test data management practices.
• Design and lead performance and load testing initiatives for APIs, web applications, and data processing workloads.
• Analyze test results, defects, and quality KPIs to provide actionable insights and drive continuous improvement.
• Serve as a quality champion within the DataGen team, communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support migration and integration testing for legacy to AWS cloud transition projects.

What We’re Looking For:

Basic Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in software testing and test automation for modern web applications and data platforms.
• 2+ years in a lead or mentoring QE or SDET role, driving quality initiatives and team delivery.
• Strong programming skills in C# or Python (or Java), with experience automating tests for .NET Core backends and React frontends.
• Proven experience with Playwright for web UI test automation.
• Experience with various automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, REST-assured, Postman, pytest, xUnit).
• Experience testing REST APIs, microservices, and data pipelines (ETL/ELT), including validation of large datasets in SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, specifically in developing and testing within Notebook/Jupyter environments.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD practices, with hands-on exposure to AWS services and pipeline automation.
• Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, k6, LoadRunner) and analysis of results.
• Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres) and familiarity with NoSQL databases.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong English language proficiency.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow, Behave, etc.).
• Exposure to testing Generative AI (GenAI) or Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Experience with test data management and synthetic data generation.
• Interest in Data Science/Machine Learning and testing data-driven solutions.
• Experience with AWS services (S3, ECS, Lambda, etc.), Docker, and containerized testing.
• Experience with monitoring, profiling, and debugging tools.
• Bachelor’s or higher qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.

Grade/Level: 11

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India