Hiring a Director of QE to build a next-gen quality engineering function leveraging AI, agentic automation, and platform engineering to deliver secure, compliant, and resilient banking software and systems at scale .

What will you contribute?

Transformed QE for Banking Software and Platforms

- Built platform-based automation at scale
- Introduced AI/automation-led productivity improvements
- Delivered measurable impact on quality, speed, and customer outcomes

Responsibilities & Deliverables: 1. QE Strategy & Transformation

- Define enterprise QE vision aligned to engineering priorities
- Embed quality across SDLC, CI/CD, and production
- Shift to engineering-owned quality model

2. AI & Agentic QE Adoption

- Deploy intelligent test generation, self-healing automation, defect analytics
- Introduce predictive release risk & autonomous quality workflows
- Establish governance for responsible AI adoption

3. Automation & QE Platforms

- Standardize frameworks across API, microservices, integration, UI, data layers
- Build reusable QE accelerators and platforms
- Enable continuous testing in CI/CD pipelines

4. Non-Functional & Production Quality

- Lead performance, resilience, and data integrity validation
- Implement contract testing, service virtualization, observability-driven quality

5. Metrics,



Governance & Compliance

- Define KPIs: defect leakage, release confidence, cycle time, automation ROI
- Ensure auditability and regulatory alignment (Banking Software / SaaS context)
- Required Experience:
- 14+ years in QE / Engineering Excellence with leadership experience
- Robust background in banking / financial services platforms
- Proven track record of QA → QE transformation (automation-first model)
- Deep expertise in: Microservices, APIs, cloud-native architectures CI/CD, DevSecOps, distributed systems Automation frameworks & non-functional testing
- Exposure to AI-enabled QE (LLM-based testing, predictive analytics, intelligent automation)

Leadership Traits

- Strategic, outcome-driven, and data-led decision maker
- Strong transformation and change leadership capability
- Credible with both engineering teams and senior executives
- Builds scalable platforms, not siloed solutions
- Drives accountability for quality across engineering

Success Profile A leader who has:

- Transformed QE for enterprise SaaS or banking platforms
- Built platform-based automation at scale
- Introduced AI/automation-led productivity improvements
- Delivered measurable impact on quality, speed, and customer outcomes

📌 Director Quality Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Finastra
📍 Bengaluru