QA Lead / Quality Engineering Lead - AI-Native Quality Systems
Zenara Health
IndiaremotePosted 6 days ago
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Key highlights
- Compensation: ₹20–30 LPA
- Experience Level: 4-8 years in QA/SDET/Quality Engineering, with 2+ years in leadership/strategy roles
- Schedule: Evening IST hours with 4–8 hours of overlap to US Pacific (9am–5pm PT)
- Team Size Previously Managed: 3-8 QA testers
- Key Benefit: Fully remote work across India
- Key Benefit: Equipment allowance provided
Role overview
Zenara Health is a technology-driven mental health care company that combines AI-powered platforms with expert clinical care to deliver personalized mental health solutions. The company is building multiple products across the clinical workflow, from AI-driven evaluations to care coordination, operating as a fast-moving startup rather than a traditional department. The role focuses on transforming their quality function from manual testing to a systematic, AI-augmented quality engineering operation.
Responsibilities
- Architect test automation from zero — Playwright-based E2E, API, and integration test suites across multiple healthcare products
- Build AI-augmented QA — use Claude, Copilot, and AI tools to generate test cases, identify edge cases, and create self-healing test suites
- Integrate QA into AI-assisted development workflows — shift-left testing that catches defects at the source, not the gate
- Own the quality gate — if you don't trust it, it doesn't ship. You have release authority.
- Design regression automation that maintains coverage as multiple products evolve simultaneously
- Establish quality engineering culture — documentation, runbooks, test plans that aren't in anyone's head
- Audit all products. Map coverage gaps. Identify the highest regression risks
- Pair with the current QA team to absorb domain knowledge and institutional context
- Build the Playwright automation scaffold — CI-integrated, parallel execution, covering critical paths
- Establish the QA runbook: how we test, when we test, what blocks a release
- Attach AI-driven test generation to the framework
- Build autonomous QA loops that feed back into development
- Get to the point where coverage grows without linear human effort
- Own quality across everything. Context-switch between products in the same week
- Pair with engineering on testability
- Work directly with the founder and clinical team on healthcare-specific edge cases — billing, HIPAA compliance, clinical workflow validation
- Develop test plans based on product requirements, prioritizing them by business risk, and knowing what not to test
- Proactively identify risks — when you see a quality risk forming — in a spec, in a sprint, in a deployment — you surface it
- Communicate like an engineer. Your bug reports tell a story: what happened, why it matters, how to reproduce, what the business impact is
Requirements
- 4-8 years of experience in QA, SDET, or Quality Engineering, including a minimum of 2 years in roles such as QA Lead, QA Manager, SDET Lead, or Senior Quality Engineer, responsible for test strategy beyond mere execution
- Test automation architecture—experience in designing and building test frameworks from the ground up rather than merely writing scripts within existing frameworks
- Skilled in Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium—maintained advanced, production-level end-to-end test suites for over 2 years
- API testing—proficient in automated REST API testing using tools such as REST Assured, Postman automation, or custom solutions
- Capable of creating programmatic test suites that include authentication, error handling, and edge case coverage
- JavaScript or TypeScript—ability to write, debug, and review test automation code competently
- CI/CD integration—experienced in linking tests into deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools, with a background in shift-left testing
- Git—familiarity with branching, pull requests, and conducting code reviews for test scripts
- Docker/containerized test environments—ability to set up and maintain isolated test infrastructure
- Strong proficiency in English communication—focus on asynchronous communication with clear written bug reports, test documentation, and release readiness notifications
- Strongly Preferred: Experience in managing or mentoring QA teams
- Strongly Preferred: Familiarity with healthcare SaaS or compliance testing under HIPAA
- Strongly Preferred: Expertise in performance testing using K6, JMeter, or Artillery
- Strongly Preferred: SQL and database-level data integrity testing experience
- Strongly Preferred: AI-assisted testing using LLMs for test generation, test data, and exploratory automation
- Strongly Preferred: Familiarity with React or Next.js
- Strongly Preferred: Experience with BDD/TDD methodologies
Nice to have
- Experience in security testing (understanding OWASP basics)
- Knowledge of FHIR/HL7 data validation
- Experience in accessibility testing (WCAG 2.1)
- Mobile/responsive web testing experience
- Experience in data pipeline or ETL testing
- Background in startup or high-growth environments
- Previous roles where QA influenced architectural decisions
Benefits
- Compensation ranging from ₹20–30 LPA depending on skills and experience
- Fully remote work opportunity available across India
- Equipment allowance provided
- Direct communication with the founder and technical team
- Evening IST hours with 4–8 hours of overlap to US Pacific (9am–5pm PT)
- You propose the schedule that works for you — flexibility for critical releases or incident response
Additional details
- We're building AI-powered clinical software, and our quality function needs to operate at the same level of intelligence and autonomy as the products it tests
- The person we're looking for has probably managed a team of 3-8 QA testers at some point and had this thought: 'Half this team could be replaced by good automation and smart test design.'
- This Is Not a Traditional QA Role — This is a quality engineering role
- You will: Architect test automation from zero
- You will: Build AI-augmented QA — use Claude, Copilot, and AI tools to generate test cases, identify edge cases, and create self-healing test suites
- You will: Integrate QA into AI-assisted development workflows — shift-left testing that catches defects at the source, not the gate
- You will: Own the quality gate — if you don't trust it, it doesn't ship. You have release authority
- You will: Design regression automation that maintains coverage as multiple products evolve simultaneously
- You will: Establish quality engineering culture — documentation, runbooks, test plans that aren't in anyone's head
- Schedule: Evening IST hours with 4–8 hours of overlap to US Pacific (9am–5pm PT). You propose the schedule that works for you — we care about overlap, not clock-in time
- What Success Looks Like: Playwright automation covers critical paths across all products
- What Success Looks Like: Regression suite runs in CI — zero manual regression passes for standard releases
- What Success Looks Like: No critical bugs reach production that were in scope of automated tests
- What Success Looks Like: QA runbook exists and the team follows it
- What Success Looks Like: You context-switch across multiple products in the same week without dropping quality
- What Success Looks Like: Release cadence has increased because QA is no longer a bottleneck
- What Success Looks Like: AI-assisted test generation is part of the daily workflow
- What Success Looks Like: Quality risks surface early — before they become production incidents
- What Your First 90 Days Look Like: Week 1-2: Audit all products. Map coverage gaps. Identify the highest regression risks. Pair with the current QA team to absorb domain knowledge and institutional context
- What Your First 90 Days Look Like: Month 1: Build the Playwright automation scaffold — CI-integrated, parallel execution, covering critical paths. Establish the QA runbook: how we test, when we test, what blocks a release
- What Your First 90 Days Look Like: Month 2-3: Attach AI-driven test generation to the framework. Build autonomous QA loops that feed back into development. Get to the point where coverage grows without linear human effort
- What Your First 90 Days Look Like: Ongoing: Own quality across everything. Context-switch between products in the same week. Pair with engineering on testability. Work directly with the founder and clinical team on healthcare-specific edge cases — billing, HIPAA compliance, clinical workflow validation
- You think of QA as a system design problem, not a checklist
- You're excited by autonomous testing systems, AI-driven exploration, and replacing manual effort with intelligence
- You design feedback loops, not just test suites
- You're uncomfortable with manually writing hundreds of brittle test cases
- You're uncomfortable with QA that reacts instead of anticipates
- You're uncomfortable with automation that breaks every sprint
- You communicate like an engineer
- Your bug reports tell a story: what happened, why it matters, how to reproduce, what the business impact is
- Developers thank you for your bugs
- You've blocked releases before and you'd do it again
- Quality isn't negotiable
- You don't wait to be asked
- You use AI tools in your daily work already
- If you haven't figured out how Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot accelerates quality engineering by now, you're behind
- Zenara Health is a technology-driven mental health care company dedicated to transforming access and quality of mental wellness services
- We combine AI-powered platforms with expert clinical care to deliver personalized, effective mental health solutions — connecting patients and providers through a seamless digital experience
- We're building multiple products across the clinical workflow — from AI-driven evaluations to care coordination — and moving fast
- This is a startup, not a department
- About Zenara Health: Originally posted on Himalayas