Lead QA (Test Automation, APIs, Robotics & Industrial Systems)

About the role

The Lead QA will own the quality strategy and verification approach for the Next Generation Platform. The role leads risk-based testing across software services, robotic controls, PLC integration, Edge/HMI, data acquisition, deployment pipelines, and end-to-end warehouse workflows, ensuring releases are fit for pilot and production use.

What you'll do

• Define and maintain the program quality strategy, test architecture, quality gates, traceability model, and release-acceptance criteria
• Lead QA planning across unit, component, contract, API, integration, system, end-to-end, regression, performance, resilience, security, usability, and upgrade testing
• Establish automation frameworks and reusable test assets for Java/Spring Boot services, APIs, web HMI, data flows, and deployment validation
• Design simulation, emulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and test-environment approaches for PLCs, robot controllers, material flow, and equipment-dependent scenarios
• Validate robotic transport execution, controls integration, fault recovery, operational workflows

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• Test automation
• Java
• PLC
• Spring Boot
• CI/CD
• Root cause analysis
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc

Good to have

• REST APIs