Job Summary
Position: QA Lead (Offshore)
Experience: 10+ Years
We are looking for a hands-on QA Lead to lead testing activities for a cloud-native Robot-Elevator Integration Platform that enables autonomous robots to interact with elevators through AWS IoT and MQTT-based communication.
Key Responsibilities
Define and drive end-to-end QA strategy and test planning.
Lead functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing.
Validate Robot-Elevator workflows, session management, and recovery scenarios.
Perform API, MQTT, telemetry, event/message flow, AWS IoT, SQS, and database testing.
Validate message sequencing, QoS, telemetry accuracy, device shadow synchronization, and end-to-end event traceability.
Build and manage automation frameworks and test suites.
Drive performance, resiliency, and security testing.
Manage offshore QA team and coordinate with Japan stakeholders.
Own defect management, release quality, and QA reporting.
Skill Requirements
Strong QA leadership experience in enterprise applications.
Expertise in API testing (Postman/REST Assured).
Experience with Test Automation (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, etc.).
Experience testing AWS-based applications (IoT Core, SQS, ECS, Lambda, Aurora).
Strong experience in MQTT, telemetry validation, event-driven architectures, and message-based systems.
Strong understanding of integration, performance, resiliency, and system testing.
Agile/Scrum experience.
Other Requirements
IoT, Robotics, Industrial Automation, Smart Building, or Connected Device domain experience.
Experience validating telemetry data pipelines, real-time monitoring, and distributed system observability.
AWS Certification and ISTQB certification
Key Success Criteria:
High test coverage and automation adoption.
Accurate validation of telemetry, messaging, and robot-elevator event flows.
Reduced production defects and release leakage.
Validation of scalability, resiliency, and recovery scenarios.
Effective coordination with offshore and onsite teams.
This role will own quality assurance for a mission-critical IoT platform integrating robots, cloud services, telemetry, messaging infrastructure, and elevator systems.