About the role

At Instawork, we’re driven by our vision to create economic opportunity for local businesses and skilled hourly professionals  in communities around the world. With a growing number of hub cities across the world in the U.S., Canada, India, and beyond, we’re looking for top talent to help rapidly scale our high-tech and high-touch labor marketplace. Our accomplished and dedicated team is passionate about our mission and committed to crafting revolutionary products, all with the backing of our world-class investors, including Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock Capital, Y Combinator, and more! We have an immediate opening for a “Lead - QA Automation Engineer”, with a proven track record of success to join our rapidly growing team in the Bangalore Office. As a Hands-On QA Automation Lead, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating and contributing to the activities of the engineering pod and delivering successful feature releases.  You will be writing new tests, developing new architectures and bringing a culture of innovation and technical depth into the team. You’ll lead exciting side projects, advancing the frontiers of QA automation with AI, and work alongside a highly agile team to test products, platforms, and third-party SDKs—all in a single day. As the foremost technical leader, you will also manage and mentor a team of skilled QA engineers, ensuring that new features are thoroughly tested and delivered on schedule, meet our quality standards, and contribute to ongoing improvements. What You'll Do:

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of talented QA engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation.
• Technical Expertise: Implement automation tests across both Web and Mobile (IOS & Android).  We are willing to train people who have no mobile automation experience but have strong programming skills and web automation experience.
• Hands-On Involvement: Must be hands-on and coding 70% of time with strong QA engineering fundamentals.
• Manual Testing: Create efficient test plans and maintain the test case repository as our product grows in functionality. Test new features that have not yet been automated by performing Black Box and White Box testing
• Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and releases of various features ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards.
• Resource Allocation: Allocate resources effectively,...