Lead SQA Engineer (Onsite, Karachi, PKR Salary)

Requirements: 8+ years of SQA experience with leadership exposure Experience working on enterprise SaaS or large-scale platforms Experience working in Agile and hybrid delivery environments Strong stakeholder communication and collaboration skills Ownership of quality across the lifecycle, from requirements to production release Strong system-level thinking with an analytical mindset Proactive risk identification before production impact Ability to establish and enforce structured QA governance Leadership capability to build and promote a quality-first engineering culture Responsibilities: Lead the full QA lifecycle from requirement analysis to post-go-live validation Perform requirement analysis, gap identification, and test coverage planning Develop structured test strategies aligned with business objectives Participate in sprint planning and backlog refinement activities Design and review application workflows and system interactions Define and track quality KPIs and release readiness metrics Mentor SQA engineers and enforce structured QA processes Perform Functional, Regression, and Integration Testing activities Conduct API Testing and Security Testing Execute Performance and Load Testing Work with automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or Appium Collaborate within CI/CD and DevOps-integrated QA environments Utilize performance testing tools such as JMeter or equivalent solutions Work with cloud-native and scalable architectures Leverage AI-assisted testing tools to enhance testing efficiency