Tech & Digital-Lead-QA Engineer

Job Title:

Lead QA Engineer

Job Details:

Business Unit: IT

Team: SHIKHAR COE

Reports to: Delivery Head

Location: Mumbai

Job Fn: QA Engineer

Role Type: IC Role

Direct Reports: 5

Travel: No

Job Band: D2

Created: 5th March 2024

Job Purpose:

Design and implement QA strategies

Ensure high quality application deployment

Manage bank project testing departments

Job Responsibilities:

Develop testing strategy with leaders

Define project testing scope

Understand quality of service

Build high performance QA team

Create traceability templates

Present quality metrics, propose bug reduction

Manage QA budget

Lead QA engineers to meet objectives

Oversee end-to-end testing cycles

Establish quality standards with business

Manage test scripts, results metadata

Maintain bank compliance, procedures

Define bug criticality metrics

Automate test cases in DevOps/CICD

Educational Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, IT

Key Skills:

Testing strategy development

BFSI domain knowledge

Non-functional requirements understanding

Manual and automation testing

Team management capabilities

Comprehensive testing strategies

Banking applications understanding

Communication, modern tech stacks

Banking data usage, relationships

Prioritize functionalities, bugs

Experience Required:

15+ years overall experience

10+ years testing experience

3+ years as QA Head, preferably banking

Major Stakeholders:

Internal: Engineering Leads, Product Owner, Business experts, IT audit, QA Team, DevOps

External: Partners, prospective suppliers

Skills

minimum exp required : 11 years

Test Automation – Python/Selenium or EggPlant/Katalon or any other industry standard automation tools,Test Management tools like Zephyr, Rational Quality Manager etc..

About HDFC Bank

HDFC Bank is one of India’s leading private banks. The Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited or HDFC Ltd was among the first financial institutions in India to receive an “in principle” approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a bank in the private sector. This was done as part of RBI’s policy for liberalization of the Indian banking industry in 1994. HDFC Bank was incorporated in August 1994 in the name of HDFC Bank Limited, with its registered office in Mumbai, India. The bank commenced operations as a Scheduled Commercial Bank in January 1995. As of March 31, 2026, the Bank’s distribution network was at 9,689 branches and 21,172 ATMs across 4,175 cities / towns as against 9,455 branches and 21,139 ATMs across 4,150 cities / towns as of March 31, 2025. 50% of the branches are in semi-urban and rural areas. In addition, the Bank has 14,400 business correspondents, which are primarily manned by Common Service Centres (CSC). The Bank’s international operations comprise five branch