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QA Lead / Quality Engineering Lead - AI-Native Quality Systems

Zenara Health

IndiaremotePosted 1 month ago
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Key highlights

  • Salary: ₹20–30 LPA (significantly above market for QA in India)
  • Experience: 4-8 years QA/SDET with 2+ years in lead roles
  • Fully remote work available across India with equipment allowance
  • Release authority: you define release-ready and can block releases with evidence
  • Must have built test frameworks from the ground up, not just written scripts in existing frameworks
  • Evening IST schedule with 4-8 hours overlap to US Pacific time

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, connecting patients and providers through a seamless digital experience. The company is building multiple products across the clinical workflow—from AI-driven evaluations to care coordination—and operates as a fast-moving startup.

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, and identify highest regression risks (Week 1-2)
  • Pair with current QA team to absorb domain knowledge and institutional context
  • Build the Playwright automation scaffold with CI-integrated, parallel execution covering critical paths (Month 1)
  • Establish the QA runbook: how we test, when we test, what blocks a release
  • Attach AI-driven test generation to the framework and build autonomous QA loops feeding back into development (Month 2-3)
  • Context-switch between multiple 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
  • Own test automation architecture — Playwright (preferred) or Cypress E2E suites, API test automation (REST Assured, Postman-based, or custom), CI/CD pipeline integration, parallel execution, containerized test environments, custom reporters
  • Maintain systematic regression suites, versioned and updated every sprint — a living, automated safety net
  • Use AI tools to generate tests, create test data, identify edge cases from specs, and accelerate coverage
  • Handle healthcare quality assurance — HIPAA compliance testing, clinical workflow validation, medical billing edge cases, patient data privacy verification, audit trail testing
  • Own cross-product quality across multiple healthcare SaaS products
  • Define 'release-ready' and block releases when quality is insufficient — with evidence; raise risks early, clearly, and decisively
  • Communicate like an engineer with bug reports that tell a story: what happened, why it matters, how to reproduce, what the business impact is
  • Proactively surface quality risks forming in specs, sprints, or deployments

Requirements

  • 4-8 years of experience in QA, SDET, or Quality Engineering
  • 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
  • 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
  • Proficient in automated REST API testing using tools such as REST Assured, Postman automation, or custom solutions; capable of creating programmatic test suites including authentication, error handling, and edge case coverage
  • JavaScript or TypeScript — ability to write, debug, and review test automation code competently
  • Experienced in linking tests into deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools, with a background in shift-left testing
  • Familiarity with Git — branching, pull requests, and conducting code reviews for test scripts
  • Capable of developing test plans based on product requirements, prioritizing them by business risk, and knowing what not to test
  • Ability to set up and maintain Docker/containerized isolated test infrastructure
  • Strong proficiency in English communication — clear written bug reports, test documentation, and release readiness notifications; proactive risk identification

Nice to have

  • Experience in managing or mentoring QA teams
  • Familiarity with healthcare SaaS or compliance testing under HIPAA
  • Expertise in performance testing using K6, JMeter, or Artillery
  • SQL and database-level data integrity testing experience
  • AI-assisted testing using LLMs for test generation, test data, and exploratory automation
  • Familiarity with React or Next.js
  • Experience with BDD/TDD methodologies
  • 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
  • Schedule flexibility — propose the schedule that works for you; focus on overlap, not clock-in time
  • Flexibility for critical releases or incident response

Additional details

  • Evening IST hours with 4–8 hours of overlap to US Pacific (9am–5pm PT)
  • This is a quality engineering role, not a traditional QA role
  • We're paying significantly above market for QA in India because we're not hiring a typical QA person
  • The person we're looking for has probably managed a team of 3-8 QA testers and thought: half this team could be replaced by good automation and smart test design
  • You want to build the machine instead of being the machine
  • Originally posted on Himalayas
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