QA Lead should have following skills:-
- Should be experienced to handle multiple projects.
- Should be a strong leader and capable to motivate team.
- Should be a good analyst, quick thinker and capable to processes testing strategies.
- Should be able to work under pressure.
- Should have strong communication skills and technical skills.
- Should have ability to manage team, manage test life cycle process and testing activities.
- Excellent knowledge to understand requirements then convert into test cases scenarios.
- Good understanding of users stories and use cases.
- Good understanding of requirements traceability matrix.
- Capability to implement talent of team members.
- Excellent capability to maintain relationships.
- Capable to prioritize work and divide tasks in team.
- Strong capability to maintain the quality of releasing build/product.
- Good monitoring skill to all QA process.
- Good knowledge to handle interview process and provide training to team members.
- Ability to implement latest technical automation testing tools and concepts.
- Strong exposure to develop and execute QA strategies to meet requirements.
- Should have good knowledge to create test plan and phases of testing cycle.
- Excellent knowledge about validation processes.
- Capability to define risk management process.
- Excellent skill to work with the development team to get quality of software.
- Strong knowledge about End To End Testing Strategies. Note:- There may be many more challenging tasks so keep learning.