Product Quality & Release Lead at Shoshin Tech in Hyderabad

Job Title: Product Quality & Release Lead
Tech/Product Environment: JavaScript / TypeScript + AWS
Seniority Level: Early-Mid to Mid-level
Salary: 5-8 LPA
Location: T-Hub, Hyderabad — In-office
Joining: Immediate or as per availability

“Minimum two years of experience in QA, software testing, product quality, or release testing with strong ownership skills.”

We are seeking a proactive and hands-on Product Quality & Release Lead to take ownership of product quality, testing, release readiness, and QA execution for our AI SaaS product.

This role is ideal for someone with strong QA fundamentals who is ready to take larger ownership in a fast-moving startup environment. You will work closely with the founders, developers, and a small QA team made up of full-time team members and part-time contractors.

Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that everything built by the engineering team is properly tested, verified, documented, and ready for release. You will help us create a lean, practical, and cost-conscious QA process that balances manual testing, automation, regression testing, bug tracking, and release readiness.

This is a hands-on role where ownership, speed, clarity, and practical judgment matter more than years of experience.

What will you do?
But not limited to:

• Own product quality and release readiness from build completion to production release.
• Work closely with the engineering team to understand features, fixes, builds, and release priorities.
• Read product and technical documentation and convert it into test cases, QA plans, acceptance checks, and release checklists.
• Plan and execute end-to-end testing for key product flows across the web application.
• Coordinate QA work across full-time team members and part-time contractors.
• Create and maintain test cases, regression test suites, bug reports, and QA documentation.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track bugs with clear reproduction steps, screenshots/videos, severity, and expected outcomes.
• Verify bug fixes and ensure resolved issues do not create regressions.
• Own regression testing, smoke testing, and pre-release validation before major releases.
• Define launch blockers, release risks, known issues, and quality status before release.
• Provide clear release-readiness updates and go/no-go recommendations from a quality perspective.
• Identify high-value areas for automation to reduce repetitive manual testing and control QA costs.
• Work with developers or automation contractors to support automated smoke, regression, API, and browser testing where useful.
• Test the product experience around AI workflows, including UI behavior, loading states, error handling, retries, session behavior, data saving, and system reliability.
• Triage customer-reported bugs after launch, reproduce issues, prioritize fixes, and ensure recurring issues are added to regression coverage.

Who can apply?

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or any relevant field. Equivalent practical experience is also welcome.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in QA, software testing, product testing, product quality, or release testing.
• Experience testing SaaS products, web applications, dashboards, admin panels, forms, APIs, or user-facing platforms.
• Strong understanding of manual testing, exploratory testing, regression testing, smoke testing, and release testing.
• Ability to create clear test cases and QA plans from product or technical documentation.
• Strong bug-reporting skills with the ability to clearly explain issues, reproduction steps, severity, and impact.
• Basic understanding of automation testing and where automation can reduce manual QA effort.
• Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript-based products is preferred.
• Familiarity with cloud-hosted applications, especially AWS-based environments, is a plus.
• Experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Jest, Postman, GitHub Actions, Jira, Linear, ClickUp, Trello, or similar tools is a plus.
• Ability to coordinate QA team members, testers, or contractors to ensure testing work is completed properly and on time.
• Comfortable working directly with developers, founders, and product stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritize bugs based on user impact, launch risk, and business importance.
• Startup mindset with strong ownership, accountability, urgency, and comfort with changing priorities.

Good to have

• Prior experience coordinating a small QA team or external QA contractors.
• Experience with automation testing using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest, or similar tools.
• Experience with API testing using Postman or similar tools.
• Experience with CI/CD-based testing workflows.
• Exposure to AI SaaS products, LLM-based products, chat-based workflows, or agent-based platforms.
• Experience testing products before launch or during early-stage product development.

What success looks like in this role

• You will be successful in this role if you can:
• Bring structure and ownership to the QA process.
• Help the team identify important bugs and release risks early.
• Coordinate testers and contractors effectively.
• Improve test coverage across key product flows.
• Reduce repetitive manual testing through practical automation.
• Keep the team updated with clear quality and release-readiness reports.
• Help the product move faster toward a stable and reliable launch.

What do we offer?

• A supportive and flexible workplace that promotes work-life balance, recognizing and appreciating your contributions.
• The autonomy to embrace, explore, and experiment with your ideas.
• An inclusive environment where your individuality is highly valued, fostering open dialogue and diverse perspectives.

Additional Benefits

• Cross-functional exposure to diverse teams, enabling a holistic understanding of all business functions.
• Engaging social events that foster camaraderie and networking opportunities with various startups.
• A fantastic problem-solving team that criticizes and gels along, creating a better version of every idea.

About Shoshin Tech
We're more than just a tech startup — we're on a mission to build a platform that empowers professionals, educators, and researchers to work smarter, faster, and with greater impact. Our tools are designed not just for productivity, but for transformation.

If you possess a creative and innovative mindset, entrepreneurial spirit, and can-do attitude, where you hold a genuine passion for cutting-edge technology, a drive to facilitate transformative learning experiences or a commitment to promoting well-being for all, and wish to be part of a high-performance team enthusiastic about operational excellence, you'll love it here.

Shoshin Tech believes in envisioning an Equal Opportunity Employer - We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all teams. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.