QA Lead India

Description

• Team Leadership & Coaching: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of QA engineers, ensuring their growth in technical and professional skills, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
• Vision & Development: Contribute to and help shape the evolving QA strategy for Arcadis Digital Intelligence, bringing your vision for modern QA and continuous improvement to the global QA community.
• Quality Delivery: Ensure QA activities support the delivery of high-quality software products, with clear focus on customer/user value, traceability, and measurable outcomes.
• Leads. Ensure clear, proactive communication within your team and with global stakeholders.
• Technical Excellence: Drive the adoption and usage of modern test automation tools and approaches (web is required, mobile is a strong plus). Set high standards for quality, coverage, and maintainability across teams using diverse technology stacks.
• Agile & Pragmatic QA: Guide teams in agile ways of working, making pragmatic decisions about what and how to test, and embedding risk-based testing, specification by example, and automation strategies in daily practice.
• Collaboration & Communication: Act as a connector between QA, Developers, Product Owners, UX and other QA

Requirements

• QA Mindset: Deep knowledge of modern, pragmatic QA methodologies (risk-based testing, specification by example, test automation strategy). Able to balance automation, exploratory, and manual testing as needed.
• Vision & Innovation: A clear vision for developing QA maturity, able to contribute to global QA strategy and drive innovation within the QA hub.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Agile Experience: Hands-on experience working in agile (Scrum/Kanban) product teams, with a focus on continuous delivery and short feedback loops.
• Leadership: Proven experience managing or leading QA/testing teams developing multiple different products, ideally in a distributed or global setting. Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and develop junior engineers.
• Flexibility: Willingness and ability to work across time zones as needed (especially with Europe and North America).
• Technical Skills: Strong hands-on experience with test automation frameworks for web (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, etc.) and preferably mobile (Appium or similar). Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating test automation.
• Experience: The candidate has at least 10 years of experience in the field of Quality Assurance, including a minimum of 5 years as a team leader or manager.
• Communication: Excellent English communication skills, with the ability to coach junior team members and communicate effectively with developers, product owners, and international stakeholders.
• Flexibility & Global Mindset: Adapt to working in a global organization, occasionally supporting teams and stakeholders in different time zones, including the USA West Coast.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance