Mphasis is hiring experienced QA professionals for a Test Lead opportunity in Bangalore. The role combines Playwright automation, performance testing, CI/CD, API testing and overall quality engineering, making it particularly attractive for professionals looking to move beyond traditional functional automation into broader test engineering.
📌 Job Title: Test Lead
📍 Location: Bangalore
💼 Experience: 4–6 Years
🏢 Work Model: Hybrid / 4 Days Work From Office
🔢 Job ID: 117547-121-1
🎯 Primary Skills: Playwright, Automation Testing, JMeter, LoadRunner/Gatling, Performance Testing, CI/CD
⏳ Joining Preference: Immediate to 30–45 Days
🏢 About Mphasis
Mphasis is an AI-led, platform-driven technology company focused on helping global enterprises modernize, adopt AI and scale their technology capabilities. The company has deep expertise across areas including financial services, hi-tech, cloud, digital transformation, cybersecurity, application services and next-generation data. Mphasis reports more than 31,000 employees across 21 countries.
For QA professionals, Mphasis can provide exposure to enterprise-scale applications and modern engineering practices. Its technology portfolio includes application modernization, DevOps, cloud, AI, automation and product engineering, creating opportunities to work across different testing and delivery environments.
🌟 Why This Test Lead Role Is Good for Your Experience
This isn’t a role limited to writing UI automation scripts. The JD combines test automation + performance engineering + CI/CD + manual testing + Agile delivery, giving candidates a wider Quality Engineering profile.
You would get hands-on exposure to:
- 🎭 Playwright: Build and maintain scalable end-to-end automation frameworks.
- ⚡ Performance Engineering: Execute load, stress and scalability testing.
- 📊 Performance Analysis: Identify bottlenecks such as slow database queries, inefficient application code and resource contention.
- 🔄 CI/CD: Integrate automation into Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
- 🔌 API Testing: Validate application APIs alongside UI workflows.
- 🧪 Quality Engineering: Participate from requirements analysis through deployment.
- 🤝 Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with developers and stakeholders to improve application quality.
This combination can strengthen your profile for future positions such as Senior Automation Engineer, Performance Test Engineer, SDET, QA Lead or Quality Engineering Lead.
💰 Expected Salary Range
The company has not provided a salary figure in the supplied job description. Public salary data for Mphasis Test Lead roles in Karnataka shows an average of approximately ₹10.28 LPA, with reported salaries ranging from about ₹5.6 LPA to ₹18.85 LPA, although the dataset is based on only a small number of reported salaries.
For a 4–6 year professional with strong Playwright + performance testing expertise, a practical market expectation could be around ₹9–16 LPA, depending on current CTC, relevant experience, technical depth, interview performance and negotiation. Treat this as an estimate, not an official Mphasis salary range.
🧠 Skills Required
Candidates should focus on this combination:
- Playwright automation framework development
- JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals
- Selenium or comparable automation experience
- JMeter / LoadRunner / Gatling
- Load, stress, scalability and endurance testing
- API testing
- CI/CD with Jenkins or GitHub Actions
- Git and version control
- Agile/Scrum
- Defect management and root-cause analysis
- SQL and database performance fundamentals
- Web architecture and HTTP fundamentals
- Performance monitoring and bottleneck identification
- Test strategy and test planning
- Strong communication and stakeholder management
🎯 Preparation Tips
Don’t prepare only generic Selenium interview questions. Performance testing is a major differentiator in this role.
1. Master Playwright
Be prepared to explain:
- Page Object Model
- Fixtures
- Locators
- Auto-waiting
- Parallel execution
- Trace Viewer
- Screenshots/video
- Retry mechanisms
- Test data management
- Playwright integration with CI/CD
Practice designing a small Playwright framework from scratch rather than memorizing syntax.
2. Prepare Performance Testing Scenarios
Expect questions around JMeter or LoadRunner. Know how to design a workload, create test plans, parameterize requests, correlate dynamic values, configure assertions and interpret results.
Understand:
Throughput → Response Time → Concurrent Users → Error Rate → CPU → Memory → Database → Network
Be able to explain how you would identify the bottleneck when response time increases under load.
3. Understand Performance Test Types
Revise the differences between:
- Load testing
- Stress testing
- Spike testing
- Endurance testing
- Scalability testing
- Volume testing
Also prepare a real example from your previous project.
4. Prepare CI/CD Integration
Know how a Playwright suite can be triggered through Jenkins/GitHub Actions, how reports are generated and how failed tests can prevent an unhealthy build from progressing.
5. Think Like a Test Lead
Interviewers may evaluate how you approach a new application. Prepare a structured answer covering:
Requirement Analysis → Risk Identification → Test Strategy → Automation Scope → Performance Strategy → CI Integration → Execution → Defect Analysis → Reporting → Release Sign-off
🗣️ Expected Interview Rounds at Mphasis
Mphasis does not publish a universal interview structure for every position, and the process can vary by project and hiring team. Based on the seniority and technical scope of this role, candidates should be prepared for a process such as:
Round 1 – Technical Screening: Automation, Playwright, programming, API and testing fundamentals.
Round 2 – Technical/Project Round: Framework architecture, CI/CD, performance testing, troubleshooting and project-based scenarios.
Round 3 – Managerial/Client Discussion: Ownership, communication, Agile practices, stakeholder handling and leadership mindset.
Final – HR/Recruiter: Compensation, notice period, location, work model and documentation.
📄 Resume Tips
Customize your resume around Playwright + Performance Testing, rather than presenting yourself as a generic QA Engineer.
Use achievement-oriented bullets such as:
- “Designed Playwright automation framework covering 300+ regression scenarios.”
- “Integrated automated regression suite with Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.”
- “Executed JMeter load tests for X concurrent users and identified database bottlenecks.”
- “Reduced regression execution time by X% through parallel automation.”
- “Performed root-cause analysis of performance degradation using application and infrastructure metrics.”
Mention JMeter/LoadRunner, Playwright, API testing, CI/CD, Agile and performance engineering prominently if you genuinely possess those skills.
📩 How to Apply
👉 Application Link: Click Here
Interested candidates can DM to AYESHA PATRA and share updated resume if their experience matches the job requirements.
Before applying, ensure your resume clearly reflects your total experience, Playwright expertise, performance-testing tools, CI/CD exposure, current location and notice period.
🔥 If you have 4–6 years of QA experience and can combine Playwright automation with performance testing, this is a strong opportunity to move toward a broader Test Lead / Quality Engineering career path.
