Quality & Test Lead

About This Role

About The Job You Are Considering Capgemini Global Insights & Data business line is a market leader in the data, platform, and analytics across all regions and cross many sectors (including financial services, consumer products, manufacturing & life sciences). Our offerings include end-2-end data integration to cloud platform, complete suite of AI engineering capabilities and a category of sector-based advanced analytics / AI solutions.

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role

The Test Lead is responsible for leading and managing the testing team, planning and coordinating QA activities, ensuring test coverage, and driving high quality product delivery. This role oversees end to end testing processes, mentors QA engineers, collaborates closely with cross functional teams, and ensures timely and defect free releases.

Test Planning & Strategy

• Develop test strategies, test plans, and effort estimates for projects.
• Define scope, approach, timelines, and deliverables for all testing phases.
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage across functional and non-functional areas.

Team Leadership & Coordination

• Lead, mentor, and support QA team members (manual and automation).
• Allocate tasks, track progress, and ensure on time execution of testing activities.
• Provide technical guidance on tools, frameworks, and best practices.

Test Execution & Management

• Oversee test case creation, execution, and defect tracking.
• Review test artifacts to maintain accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Ensure defects are prioritized correctly and resolved within defined timelines.
• Coordinate integration, system, regression, and UAT testing cycles.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and Scrum Masters.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and project meetings.
• Communicate test status, risks, and quality metrics to stakeholders.

Process Improvement

• Identify gaps in QA processes and implement improvements.
• Drive automation initiatives and CI/CD integration where applicable.
• Establish quality standards, templates, and best practices.

Reporting & Documentation

• Prepare test metrics, dashboards, and quality reports.
• Maintain documentation for test strategies, defect logs, and closure reports.
• Ensure compliance with organizational QA processes

Your Skills And Experience Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile, and QA methodologies.
• Hands on experience with test management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, etc.).
• Knowledge of automation tools (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium) is preferred.
• Experience with API testing tools (Postman, SoapUI).
• SQL knowledge for backend validation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git).

Professional Experience

• experienced in QA/testing.
• Experience in leading teams, managing projects, and delivering complex releases.
• Exposure to web, mobile, and cloud-based application testing.

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Analytical thinking and strong problem solving skills
• Attention to detail and a quality first mindset.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and work under deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with automation frameworks (TestNG, JUnit, PyTest).
• Knowledge of performance testing (JMeter, LoadRunner).
• Industry certifications such as ISTQB, CSTE, or Agile/Scrum certifications.
• Experience with DevOps practices and cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion. Make it real | www.capgemini.com