Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Oversee and guide a team of automation and quality engineers specializing in API, integration, and data validation testing.

• Develop and implement enterprise-wide quality engineering standards, automation strategies, and best practices.

• Cultivate a culture that emphasizes quality ownership, continuous improvement, innovation, and engineering excellence.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Architecture, DevOps, and Business stakeholders to ensure alignment of quality initiatives with organizational objectives and delivery schedules.

• Offer technical leadership in areas such as test strategy, framework design, automation architecture, and quality governance.

• Create, develop, and sustain scalable, reusable, and resilient automation frameworks for APIs, integrations, and data-driven applications.

• Promote an automation-first testing methodology across functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.

• Establish and enforce coding standards, automation best practices, and CI/CD quality gates.

• Assess and incorporate modern testing tools, frameworks, and AI-assisted automation solutions to enhance efficiency and coverage.

• Ensure that automated test suites are optimized for reliability, maintainability, scalability, and execution performance.

• Lead quality assurance initiatives for intricate enterprise integrations that involve multiple upstream and downstream systems.

• Verify data integrity, transformation logic, reconciliation, and consistency across systems like EASY, Person & Household, Account platforms, and other enterprise applications.

• Execute backend and integration testing across relational and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and DynamoDB.

• Validate event-driven workflows and streaming architectures utilizing Kafka, including message validation, event sequencing, downstream processing, and error handling.

• Develop robust validation mechanisms for high-volume and complex data pipelines.

• Work alongside DevOps and platform engineering teams to incorporate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.

• Promote shift-left and continuous testing practices within Agile and DevSecOps environments.

• Enhance test execution efficiency, reporting, monitoring, and visibility of quality metrics.

• Assist in release readiness activities, risk assessments, and production validation strategies.

• Advocate for innovation initiatives including AI/ML-assisted testing, intelligent automation, and advanced quality engineering practices.

• Support performance, scalability, and reliability testing efforts using tools such as Gatling, JMeter, or LoadRunner.

• Contribute to observability and quality monitoring strategies in cloud-native environments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, or Test Automation, including more than 3 years in technical leadership or management positions.

• Strong practical experience in automation engineering with in-depth knowledge of Java and core programming concepts.

• Capability to comprehend, review, and contribute to production-grade integration and automation code.

• Extensive experience with automation frameworks and tools such as Karate, Cucumber, JUnit, TestNG, REST Assured, or similar API testing frameworks.

• Strong background in testing API-centric, integration-heavy, and data-intensive enterprise applications.

• Experience working in AWS cloud environments and cloud-native architectures.

• Practical experience with Kafka and event-driven microservices architectures.

• Proven expertise in validating complex data flows across distributed systems and databases.

• Experience with CI/CD tools and automation execution pipelines such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar platforms.

• Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, and DevOps methodologies.

• Demonstrated experience in mentoring engineers and leading high-performing QA/Quality Engineering teams.

• Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment.

• Fluid career paths.

• Celebrate internal mobility.

• Recognition for purpose and well-being.

• Work-life balance.

• Foster a welcoming and inclusive environment.

• Opportunities for volunteering.