Senior Consultant

Job Description & Requirements You will lead a team of testers and automation engineers, ensuring high-quality deliverables through robust test planning, automation, and continuous improvement. This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and collaboration across agile squads. Responsibilities Strategy & Governance • Define and evolve the testing strategy (shift‑left, risk‑based testing, BDD/TDD, contract testing) across squads and products. • Establish common standards and templates (test strategy, plan, RTM, exit criteria) aligned to recognized practices (e.g., ISTQB foundations, ISO/IEC 29119 test documentation, OWASP Testing Guide). • Create and run quality governance (readiness/exit gates, defect SLAs, change failure rate tracking) and own QA OKRs for the division. • Maintain a test architecture roadmap (frameworks, environments, data, observability) and drive tool consolidation. Test Engineering & Automation • Own end‑to‑end automation strategy: UI, API, contract, component, and smoke/regression suites integrated into CI/CD. • Ensure maintainable frameworks, coding standards, and code reviews; champion modular page/object models, data builders, and parallelization. • Ability to define and achieve comprehensive test coverage across functional, non-functional, and automation layers to ensure quality and risk mitigation • Plan and execute performance, scalability, resilience, and security testing; collaborate with engineering on tuning and hardening. • Define SLO aligned test goals (latency, throughput, error rate) and bake checks into pipelines. Stakeholder Management & Communication • Partner with Product, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Compliance to balance risk, speed, and regulatory requirements. • Provide clear dashboards and release readiness reports; communicate trade offs and recommendations to leadership. • Lead and mentor a multi disciplinary squad (automation, functional, performance, security) serving multiple applications; manage capacity, prioritization, and cross team engagement. • Stand up shared services for regression, performance & security testing, test data management, and environment orchestration. • Coach squads on story quality (acceptance criteria, testability, Definition of Ready/Done) and facilitate test planning in sprint cadences. Continuous Improvement • Lead retrospectives and incident reviews (escaped defects, production issues) to improve prevention. • Drive skills development (automation, performance, security) and keep the team current with tooling and methods. Requirements: • 10+ years in QA/testing, 3+ years leading centralized or cross product testing teams. • Strong proficiency in programming languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript or Python . • Strong SQL skills with hands-on experience in MySQL and PostgreSQL for test data preparation, backend verification, and database-level testing. • Hands on expertise with Selenium, Cypress and Playwright and API testing (Postman/REST Assured), plus CI/CD integration. • Strong grasp of Agile/Scrum, DevOps, and shift left practices (BDD/TDD, contract testing). • Solid knowledge of performance and security testing concepts and tools (JMeter/k6, OWASP ZAP). • Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and continuous integration tools (e.g., Jenkins). • Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) for test environment management. • Solid understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and best practices. • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. • Effective communication skills with the ability to collaborate and coordinate with cross-functional teams. • Self-motivated with a passion for continuous learning and improvement.