QA Lead / Test Lead

Lead QA delivery across manual and automation testing for a FinTech product. Own QA strategy, risk-based test scope, team priorities, and release readiness.

Lead and mentor QA engineers through regular one-to-ones, workload allocation, priority setting, and QA syncs. Drive automation priorities, define critical regression coverage, and identify quality coverage gaps.

Introduced AI-assisted QA workflows for testing, test analysis, and unit-test coverage review. Built a cross-team regression process and led defect triage, reducing the active defect backlog by 41%.

Built backend testing from scratch in a new FoodTech product team, including test environments and infrastructure for API and integration testing.

Led end-to-end validation of user and payment flows across frontend and backend systems during international product launches.

Initiated and organized a bugathon to reduce the bug backlog and improve release quality.

Tested backend banking systems and service integrations through Sonic ESB. Validated financial transactions and data flows across integrated banking services.

Verified database data consistency using SQL queries. Participated in QA hiring and candidate interviews, assessing technical skills and team fit.

Performed integration and API testing for banking systems.

Created test scenarios and maintained test documentation.