Persistent Systems Ltd. is hiring a QA Automation Lead for its Bangalore team. The opportunity is targeted at experienced quality engineering professionals with 7–15 years of experience and strong expertise in JavaScript, API Testing, OTT/Streaming domain and AI.
📍 Location: Bangalore
💼 Experience: 7–15 Years
🎯 Role: QA Automation Lead
🧪 Key Skills: JavaScript, API Testing, OTT Domain, AI
🏢 Company: Persistent Systems Ltd.
📩 Apply Via: kritika_purswani@persistent.com / Direct Message to Kritika Purswani
🏢 About Persistent Systems
Persistent Systems is an AI-led, platform-driven digital engineering and enterprise modernization company. It works with organizations across industries on digital engineering, cloud, data, AI and modernization initiatives. Its FY2024–25 annual report reported approximately $1.4 billion in annual revenue, reflecting the scale of its global engineering and technology operations.
Persistent has multiple Bengaluru locations, including offices at Pritech Park, Prestige Shantiniketan in Whitefield and The Cube-Karle Town Centre.
💼 Why This Role Is Good for Experienced QA Professionals
This is not positioned as a conventional execution-focused QA role. At the 7–15 year level, a QA Automation Lead is expected to combine technical depth with leadership, test strategy and delivery ownership.
The combination of JavaScript + API Testing + OTT + AI can provide exposure to modern quality engineering problems such as streaming reliability, API performance, device compatibility, content workflows, real-time services and AI-assisted testing.
Persistent’s OTT practice specifically highlights low-latency streaming, live streaming, personalization and AI-powered solutions, making OTT-domain knowledge particularly relevant for candidates targeting this opening.
For senior professionals, the role can also strengthen experience in automation architecture, quality strategy, mentoring, stakeholder management and technical decision-making.
🧑💻 Skills Required
- JavaScript/TypeScript and automation framework expertise
- Advanced API testing using REST APIs and tools such as Postman, REST Assured or equivalent
- Automation framework design and maintenance
- Functional, regression, integration and end-to-end testing
- OTT/video-streaming domain knowledge
- Streaming workflows, playback, content delivery and QoE concepts
- Cross-browser, cross-device and platform testing
- API validation, authentication and authorization testing
- Performance and scalability testing concepts
- CI/CD pipeline integration
- Git and defect-management tools
- SQL/database validation
- Agile/Scrum and test strategy
- AI-assisted testing and GenAI-based QA approaches
- Test planning, estimation and risk management
- Technical leadership and mentoring
🎯 Expected Persistent Systems Interview Rounds
1️⃣ Recruiter Screening: Expect verification of experience, location, notice period, current role, automation background and alignment with the 7–15 year requirement.
2️⃣ Technical Assessment / Coding: JavaScript fundamentals, automation concepts, API testing and possibly a practical coding or automation exercise can be relevant for a lead-level automation position.
3️⃣ Technical Interview – QA Automation: Expect detailed discussion around framework architecture, test strategy, API automation, CI/CD, debugging, test coverage and automation challenges.
4️⃣ OTT / Domain Round: Be prepared to discuss video-streaming scenarios such as playback failures, buffering, adaptive bitrate, content availability, device compatibility, live-stream interruptions and API validation.
5️⃣ AI / Modern Testing Discussion: Candidates may be asked how AI tools can improve test-case generation, exploratory testing, defect analysis, test-data creation or automation maintenance.
6️⃣ Managerial / Leadership Round: This can focus on team leadership, mentoring, stakeholder communication, estimation, conflict resolution, quality ownership and handling delivery risks.
7️⃣ HR / Final Discussion: Compensation, availability, location, career expectations and other employment details may be discussed.
💰 Salary Range
The supplied hiring post does not mention an official salary range. Third-party Persistent salary data provides useful reference points: Glassdoor currently reports Bengaluru Lead Quality Engineer base pay around ₹9–₹12.9 LPA, while related senior quality leadership data shows an average around ₹17 LPA nationally, with individual 7–9 year reports varying significantly by location and role.
For a 7–15 year QA Automation Lead profile with JavaScript, API, OTT and AI expertise, an indicative ₹15–25 LPA can be used as a market reference, but this is not a Persistent-confirmed package. Actual compensation can vary by experience, role level, project and interview outcome.
📚 Preparation Tips
🔥 Build an OTT test strategy: Prepare a complete test approach for login → content discovery → playback → pause/resume → seek → subtitles → audio → bitrate switching → subscription/access control.
📺 Understand streaming failures: Revise buffering, latency, CDN issues, adaptive bitrate, DRM, playback compatibility and network-condition testing.
🔌 Go deep into APIs: Prepare authentication, headers, status codes, schema validation, negative testing, contract testing, retries and chained API workflows.
🤖 Demonstrate practical AI usage: Explain how you have used AI to generate test scenarios, analyze requirements, create test data, identify edge cases or assist automation—not merely how you use ChatGPT.
💻 Practice JavaScript automation: Be ready to write clean reusable functions, asynchronous code and automation utilities.
👥 Prepare leadership examples: Keep STAR-format examples ready for mentoring engineers, resolving automation failures, improving coverage and handling production-quality risks.
📄 Resume Tips
Make QA Automation Lead | JavaScript | API Testing | OTT | AI immediately visible near the top of your resume. Avoid presenting yourself as only a test-execution professional.
Highlight measurable outcomes such as automation coverage, regression-time reduction, API coverage, defect leakage reduction, framework adoption, execution speed and release improvements. Add specific OTT projects wherever applicable and mention streaming concepts handled.
Show leadership through bullets such as “Designed automation architecture,” “Led QA strategy,” “Mentored automation engineers,” “Integrated automation into CI/CD,” and “Introduced AI-assisted testing workflows.”
For AI experience, specify the actual use case and measurable impact instead of simply listing “AI” as a skill.
📩 How to Apply
📩 kritika_purswani@persistent.com
Interested candidates can share their updated CV directly with kritika_purswani@persistent.com
Before applying, ensure your resume clearly demonstrates 7–15 years of QA/automation experience, JavaScript, API Testing, OTT/Streaming knowledge and AI-assisted testing exposure.
⚠️ Important: Verify the recruiter communication and vacancy details before sharing sensitive information. Persistent states that it does not charge candidates fees or request money during recruitment and advises candidates to report suspicious recruitment communications.
🚀 For senior QA professionals combining automation leadership with API, OTT and AI expertise, this Persistent Systems opening offers an opportunity to work at the intersection of quality engineering and modern digital engineering.
