Software Development Lead

Management Level: 09 – Specialist/Team Lead

Location: Hyderabad

Must have skills: Manual & Automation Testing, Selenium / TestNG / JUnit, API Testing (Postman / REST Assured), Defect Tracking (JIRA / Bugzilla), SDLC & STLC Knowledge, and CI/CD Tools (Jenkins / Git).

Good to have skills: Performance Testing (JMeter / LoadRunner), Security Testing, Database Testing (SQL), Cloud Testing (AWS / Azure), Scripting Languages (Python / Java), and Knowledge of AI/ML or Automation Framework Design.

Experience: 5+ years of experience is required

Educational Qualification: BTech / BE

Job Overview

The Technology QA Specialist/Team Lead leads quality assurance strategy and execution for technology solutions, ensuring products meet functional, performance, and reliability standards. This role manages QA teams, defines testing processes, collaborates with engineering and product teams, and drives continuous improvement in software quality across the development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

Leading a team of testers and being responsible for the quality of their work

Creating and executing functional test plans and test cases, both manual and automated testing for web applications, and performing regression testing.

Identifying and documenting defects

Tracking Quality Assurance metrics (e.g. defect density, open defect count)

Execute Manual and Automation test scripts

Participating in daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives

Coordinating with other teams to ensure the timely delivery of quality software products

Tracking and logging defects during execution

Identify and test for functional 'edge cases' outside of the expected workflow

Creating and executing functional test plans and test cases, both manual and automated testing for web applications, and performing regression testing.

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications:

Graduate with a Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Web-based applications, Test automation like Selenium, WebDriver, and other automation technologies

Prior EdTech experience is required.

Minimum 2+ years of experience in a leadership or supervisory role

Strong experience in writing test scenarios and test cases

Good knowledge of SQL queries and database testing

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Ability to multitask in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

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Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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