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We are looking for a Lead QA Engineer with 5+ years of experience who can own and drive quality across firmware, backend, and application testing. This role requires strong hands-on testing experience, the ability to support both System Integration Testing (SIT) and component-level validation, and the leadership skills to guide quality activities across multiple products and teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead QA planning, test design, execution, and release validation across firmware, backend, APIs, and web/mobile applications.
• Drive end-to-end System Integration Testing for connected devices, cloud communication, hardware interactions, and application workflows.
• Validate firmware behavior, backend services, databases, APIs, and integration flows across multiple product combinations.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects while collaborating with firmware, backend, application, product, automation, and business teams.
• Contribute to sprint planning, requirement reviews, test strategy, quality metrics, release readiness, and QA sign-off activities.
• Mentor team members, review test coverage, improve QA processes, and identify automation opportunities for regression and repetitive validation.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of QA experience with strong hands-on exposure to IoT products, connected devices, firmware, embedded systems, or device-cloud integrations.
• Strong understanding of STLC, defect life cycle, QA best practices, and release validation processes.
• Experience in System Integration Testing across firmware, hardware, backend APIs, cloud communication, and web/mobile applications.
• Good knowledge of device behavior validation, logs analysis, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting across firmware, backend, and application layers.
• Experience with API testing, SQL/database validation, and tools such as Postman, Jira, Zephyr, or similar.
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum practices and cross-functional collaboration in product development teams.

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of REST APIs, networking basics, and communication protocols.
• Basic automation knowledge using Playwright, Katalon, Selenium, or similar tools.
• Exposure to performance testing tools such as JMeter is an advantage.
• Awareness of AI-assisted testing, test data generation, log analysis, or automation productivity tools is a plus.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to manage a team, lead quality initiatives, and drive solutions to closure.
• Willingness to work across multiple products, technologies, and cross-functional teams.
• Team player with a quality-first mindset.