Senior Lead QA Analyst

Location: India (Bangalore preferred)
Experience: 6+ years of overall automation testing experience with leadership exposure

Job Summary:
We are seeking Test Lead who will be responsible for leading testing activities for AI/Agentic AI solutions, ensuring quality, reliability, and compliance across releases. The role requires strong automation skills, understanding of AI systems, team leadership capability and close collaboration with cross‑functional teams. Testing Agentic AI or LLM based systems are the primary skills for the role.

Key Responsibilities:
Define and execute AI testing strategy for agentic and AI‑driven solutions
Lead testing activities of models, prompts, agent workflows, and AI outputs
Manage test planning, execution and evidence tracking using Test Management Tool.
Drive automation coverage using Python‑based frameworks and ensure maintainable test suites
Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines.
Use Cursor AI as a primary tool to design, generate, refactor and maintain automated test scripts
Drive defect triage, risk assessment, and release readiness decisions
Collaborate with Product Owner, Engineering Leads, Data Science and Business teams
Mentor testers and promote best practices in AI and prompt‑based testing
Cursor AI as a primary tool to design, generate, refactor, and maintain automated test scripts

Required Skills:
Experience in test leadership and QA governance
Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and non‑deterministic system behavior
Strong hands‑on experience with UI/API automation, AI workflow automation and building scalable Python test frameworks.
Hands-on experience in Models, prompts, scoring logic, regeneration workflows, Agent decision flows and multi‑agent coordination
Experience with functional, Non Functional, Regression and UAT testing
Experience building CI/CD QA pipelines.
Experience in using ALM, JIRA, LangSmith and Data Dog Tools
Experience with AI-assisted development and testing tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot etc
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Preferred Skills:
Experience testing Agentic AI or LLM‑based systems
Experience with AI‑assisted testing setup using Playwright MCP in VS Code
Exposure to AI testing techniques such as scenario‑based or metamorphic testing
Performance/Load Testing and related tools.(Load Runner Tool)

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com

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