QA & Release Automation Lead

Description

• Responsible for the quality engineering strategy for the Lines of Business (LoBs) and designing the future roadmap of the portfolio.
• Ensure high test coverage and reliability across CI/CD pipelines.
• Set and monitor key quality metrics (e.g., defect leakage, test coverage, release health).
• Promote a quality-first culture through education, visibility, and metrics.
• Evaluate and onboard modern quality engineering tools, infrastructure, and practices.
• Ensure alignment with compliance, security, and regulatory standards where applicable.
• Oversee performance, scalability, and reliability testing for mission-critical systems.
• Test and automate industry-leading technology solutions.
• Play a role in keeping the team motivated and engaged and identify new opportunities that improve retention.
• Understand the quality engineering transformation strategy for large-scale portfolios and work on delivering technical solutions aligned with the portfolio.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, DevOps, and Support to ensure end-to-end quality.
• Partner with business, senior leaders, technical leads, SMS, and POs in designing the future landscape of the portfolio.
• Take the lead in the conceptualization and creation of reusable components, frameworks, processes, and best practices that can be leveraged by others.
• Own and drive quality engineering pilots for the transformation strategy and lead organizational-level initiatives.
• Advocate for DevOps and Agile concepts and continuously strive to implement these methodologies within the portfolio.
• Provide thought leadership and contribute to the success of engineering events planned within the organization, including publishing white papers or blogs on the latest industry technology trends.
• Drive clarity when business problems and technical strategy are not well defined. Deliver end-to-end quality engineering solutions with complete independence.
• Drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement practices.
• Serve as the designated solution consultant for quality engineering techno-functional solutions for the portfolio.
• Implement and maintain robust test automation frameworks (UI, API, performance, etc.).
• Identify, lead, and influence continuous improvement opportunities to reduce technology debt and maintain or improve efficiencies in the automated test suites/test cases repository.
• Identify opportunities across Adani airport lines of business with a sense of responsibility.
• Ensure proof of concepts (POCs) from myself/my teams are showcased to senior technical leaders.

Requirements

• Possess business knowledge in multiple domains and stay updated on the latest business opportunities and initiatives by competitors, fostering a culture of innovative thinking to make ADL's services, products, and initiatives more competitive.
• Possess deep technical knowledge to provide quality engineering solutions to a complex portfolio of business applications.
• Own release readiness, risk assessment, and go/no-go quality gates.
• Requires 15-18 years of experience, advanced knowledge in quality engineering, automation technology, DevOps, and testing tools.
• Have thorough end-to-end business understanding along with client and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or any engineering with relevant experience

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance