Job Description — QA Practice Lead (Senior Manager)

Role Overview

QA Practice Lead (Senior Manager) owns the strategic mandate of driving testing excellence
across delivery programs, building scalable QA capabilities, governing quality
outcomes, enhancing automation reliability, and positioning QA as a
release-assurance led Center of Excellence. The role influences
cross-functional engineering stakeholders, mentors QA leaders, governs
practice-level metrics, and ensures predictable and production-secure releases
across programs.

Key Responsibilities
- Practice & CoE Leadership

â Define and govern enterprise QA
standards, test frameworks, tooling strategy, automation blueprints, and
quality gates.

â Build reusable assets, reliability
layers, test accelerators and maturity roadmap for the QA Center of Excellence.

â Drive org-wide adoption of
Shift-Left QA, Continuous Testing, CI/CD test stability, and DevOps quality
governance.
- Delivery
Assurance (Multi-Program)

â Govern all QA streams: Functional,
Regression, Integration, API, Mobile, Performance, Security,



Accessibility and
Cloud-native testing across delivery.

â Lead release-quality governance,
test traceability, quality risk identification, mitigation, and production
leakage prevention.

â Ensure test environments, test
data, automation stability, and execution SLAs remain healthy across programs.
- QA Talent
Strategy & Leadership

â Own QA hiring blueprint,
competency frameworks, talent pipeline, upskilling, utilization and career
growth charter.

â Mentor and develop QA Tech Leads,
Seniors, Automation Leads, and QA Owners across delivery units.

â Drive capacity forecasting,
resource allocation, utilization balancing and skill scalability across
engagements.
- Stakeholder
& Client Influence

â Act as senior quality advisor to
Delivery, Engineering, Product and Client stakeholders for effort sizing,
quality risk profiling, estimation governance and automation ROI.

â Ensure QA considerations are
embedded

📌 QA Practice Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 N Human Resources & Management Systems
📍 Bengaluru