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Job description

Job Title: Associate Director/Sr. Manager– Enterprise Quality Engineering

Years of Experience: 12–20+ years

Location: Mumbai

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly accomplished Sr. Test Manager to lead end-to-end Quality Engineering initiatives across complex enterprise programs. The ideal candidate will bring solid leadership, strategic vision, and hands-on expertise in Functional, Non-Functional, Automation, and Performance Testing. This role demands the ability to drive quality transformation, scale QE delivery models, and align testing strategy with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Quality Strategy & Governance

- Define and implement enterprise-level Test Strategy & Quality Roadmap
- Establish governance models covering SIT, UAT, Regression, NFT
- Drive Shift-Left and Shift-Right Quality Engineering practices
- Own entry/exit criteria, quality gates, and release sign-offs
- Present quality metrics to CXO stakeholders

2. Program & Delivery Leadership

- Lead large cross-functional QA teams (20–100+ members)
- Manage multi-vendor and distributed delivery models
- Plan estimations, budgeting, capacity planning, and forecasting
- Drive risk-based testing and critical defect triage
- Ensure on-time release readiness across multiple tracks

3. Functional & Automation Excellence

- Oversee automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Tosca, API automation)
- Improve regression efficiency through CI/CD integration
- Establish traceability (RTM), test coverage, and quality dashboards
- Promote reusability, script optimization, and framework scalability

4. Non-Functional & Performance Engineering

- Own performance strategy (Load, Stress, Soak, Scalability testing)
- Define NFRs – TPS, concurrency, response time SLAs
- Drive observability and production monitoring alignment
- Ensure resilience, failover, and capacity validation

5. Stakeholder & Client Management

- Act as single point of accountability for Quality
- Engage Business, Architecture, DevOps,



and Infra teams
- Lead UAT governance with business stakeholders
- Provide executive-level dashboards & reporting

6. Process & Transformation

- Implement QE maturity models (TMMi / Custom Maturity Framework)
- Drive AI-enabled testing (LLM validation, synthetic monitoring, bot testing)
- Standardize tools and eliminate redundancy
- Build Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) frameworks

Required Skills & Competencies

Leadership Competencies

- Strategic thinker with execution rigor
- Strong negotiation and escalation management skills
- Decision-making under pressure
- Influencing senior stakeholders

Technical Expertise

- Automation Tools: Selenium, Playwright, Tosca
- Performance Tools: LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, K6
- API Testing: Postman, Rest Assured
- CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git
- Test Management: JIRA, ALM, Azure Test Plans
- Cloud & DevOps familiarity (Azure/AWS)

Quality Engineering Capabilities

- Risk-based test modeling
- Test coverage analysis
- Workload modeling
- Production defect leakage reduction
- Defect prevention strategy

KPIs / Success Metrics

- Reduction in defect leakage to production
- Regression automation coverage > 75%
- Performance SLA adherence > 95%
- Release cycle time improvement
- Improved test case productivity
- Reduction in environment-related delays

Experience & Qualifications

- 12–20+ years in Quality Engineering
- Proven leadership of large-scale enterprise programs
- Experience in BFSI / Telecom / Oil & Gas preferred
- ISTQB / Agile certifications preferred
- Experience in SAP / Core Banking / CRM / Digital Channels is a plus
- Drives quality as a business enabler , not just a validation function
- Blends architecture mindset with delivery governance
- Balances automation, performance, and business quality objectives
- Scales teams from tactical QA to strategic QE transformation

Location

- Mumbai (Sevri/Wadala) This is a mandatory requirement.
- Mumbai Based. To be working out of Mumbai Sevri Location. Work Location is Non Negotiable.

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