Amtech Software provides ERP, MES, and automation software for corrugated, folding carton, flexible packaging, and label converters, integrating order entry, production planning, inventory, maintenance, and real-time performance analytics.
<h1><strong>About Vista Equity Partners</strong></h1> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <h1><strong>About Amtech</strong></h1> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <h1><strong>Role Description</strong></h1> <p>Amtech is seeking a hands-on <strong>Lead QA Engineer</strong> to define the Quality Engineering strategy and technical direction for one or more teams or a major product area.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2><strong>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></h2> <p><strong> </strong> </p> <p><strong>Quality Strategy and Testing</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define the Quality Engineering strategy, risk model, and release-readiness standards for assigned teams or product areas.</li> <li>Establish coverage expectations across manual, automation, API, database, integration, performance, resilience, and end-to-end testing.</li> <li>Lead requirements, architecture, design, and release-quality reviews.</li> <li>Provide evidence-based release recommendations and communicate residual risks to technical and business stakeholders.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Automation and Technical Engineering</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define and govern Playwright automation architecture using JavaScript or TypeScript.</li> <li>Establish reusable framework standards, coding practices, review expectations, and reporting capabilities.</li> <li>Define CI/CD quality gates for pull requests, deployments, regression runs, and releases.</li> <li>Improve automation stability, maintainability, execution efficiency, and coverage across teams.</li> </ul> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Performance and Non-Functional Testing</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define the strategy for load, stress, spike, endurance, scalability, capacity, and resilience testing.</li> <li>Establish realistic workload models and measurable performance thresholds.</li> <li>Guide the use of JMeter, k6, Gatling, Locust, or equivalent tools.</li> <li>Partner with Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, and Database teams to identify bottlenecks and capacity risks.</li> </ul> <h3> </h3> <p><strong>Quality Improvement and Leadership</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead root-cause analysis for production defects, recurring quality issues, and automation instability.</li> <li>Monitor defect leakage, automation effectiveness, performance trends, and release confidence.</li> <li>Establish responsible AI-assisted testing practices and validation approaches for AI-enabled features.</li> <li>Mentor Quality Engineers, lead technical reviews, and promote consistent testing practices across teams.</li> <li>Represent Quality Engineering in architecture, design-governance, and release forums.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <h2><strong>SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.</li> <li>Typically, 8–11 years of progressive Quality Engineering experience, including technical leadership.</li> <li>Expert knowledge of manual, exploratory, API, database, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.</li> <li>Expert hands-on experience with Playwright and JavaScript or TypeScript.</li> <li>Proven experience defining and scaling automation frameworks across teams.</li> <li>Strong experience with REST APIs, SQL, distributed systems, Git, CI/CD, and automated quality gates.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with load and performance-testing tools and workload modeling.</li> <li>Familiarity with cloud platforms, containers, observability, and application monitoring.</li> <li>Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, defect leakage, RCA, release governance, and quality metrics.</li> <li>Experience defining AI-assisted testing practices and testing AI-enabled capabilities.</li> <li>Strong technical leadership, mentoring, stakeholder influence, and decision-making skills.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <h1><strong>Why Join Amtech</strong></h1> <p>At A