Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

About Vista Equity Partners Vista Equity Partners is a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. With over $100B in assets under management and a portfolio of 90+ software product companies worldwide, Vista accelerates growth through operational excellence, shared expertise, and long-term partnership. In India, Vista’s presence continues to expand with 45+ portfolio companies employing more than 17,000 professionals across technology, product, customer success, and operations — reinforcing India’s strategic role as a hub of innovation and talent within the Vista ecosystem. Through its Agentic AI Factory, Vista is embedding Generative AI across its global portfolio — enabling companies to integrate intelligent, responsible AI into products, operations, and decision-making. This initiative is strengthened through portfolio-wide learning programs, leadership workshops, and AI hackathons that foster innovation, build fluency, and accelerate practical AI adoption across teams. About Amtech Amtech is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for the packaging, printing, and manufacturing industries. Our integrated systems streamline order management, production planning, scheduling, inventory, and business analytics — empowering customers to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and improve operational performance. With a strong commitment to innovation and customer success, Amtech delivers reliable technology backed by deep industry expertise. With Vista’s investment and strategic guidance, we combine the agility of a growing technology organization with the scale, stability, and career mobility of a global software ecosystem. Role Description Amtech is seeking a hands-on Lead QA Engineer to define the Quality Engineering strategy and technical direction for one or more teams or a major product area. The Lead QA Engineer will establish standards for manual testing, Playwright automation, API and integration testing, performance engineering, CI/CD quality gates, AI-assisted testing, and release governance. This role is accountable for quality outcomes across releases and cross-team initiatives while remaining actively involved in technical design, reviews, and complex problem resolution. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Quality Strategy and Testing Define the Quality Engineering strategy, risk model, and release-readiness standards for assigned teams or product areas. Establish coverage expectations across manual, automation, API, database, integration, performance, resilience, and end-to-end testing. Lead requirements, architecture, design, and release-quality reviews. Provide evidence-based release recommendations and communicate residual risks to technical and business stakeholders. Automation and Technical Engineering Define and govern Playwright automation architecture using JavaScript or TypeScript. Establish reusable framework standards, coding practices, review expectations, and reporting capabilities. Define CI/CD quality gates for pull requests, deployments, regression runs, and releases. Improve automation stability, maintainability, execution efficiency, and coverage across teams. Performance and Non-Functional Testing Define the strategy for load, stress, spike, endurance, scalability, capacity, and resilience testing. Establish realistic workload models and measurable performance thresholds. Guide the use of JMeter, k6, Gatling, Locust, or equivalent tools. Partner with Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, and Database teams to identify bottlenecks and capacity risks. Quality Improvement and Leadership Lead root-cause analysis for production defects, recurring quality issues, and automation instability. Monitor defect leakage, automation effectiveness, performance trends, and release confidence. Establish responsible AI-assisted testing practices and validation approaches for AI-enabled features. Mentor Quality Engineers, lead technical reviews, and promo…