We are looking for a powerful, high-ownership Deputy QA Manager to help lead and transform our 50-person global QA team. This is a high-level strategic role for someone with 10+ years of management experience and a strong background in software development.

In this role, you won't just manage standard testing checklists. Instead, you will build a smart, flexible quality strategy that works perfectly even when project rules are changing fast or timelines are tight. You will bridge the gap between Traditional Testing (standard code automation) and AI Era Testing (testing smart AI tools and massive data flows), while making sure our systems are fast, secure, and built to handle massive traffic.

Core Strategic Responsibilities

1. Building a Smart, Flexible Quality Strategy
- Balancing Traditional & AI Testing: Create a transparent strategy that handles standard code testing (automation, APIs) while also defining new ways to test smart AI models, data pipelines, and target databases ($Datamarts$).
- Adapting to Tough Conditions:



Design flexible quality processes that protect the product's stability even when project deadlines change quickly, requirements are unclear, or conditions are chaotic.
- Proactive Quality Culture: Move the team from simply finding bugs at the end of a project to preventing bugs from the very start.

2. Leading Non-Functional Testing (NFT) Strategy
- Performance & Speed: Oversee how we test our systems to handle massive user traffic and heavy data processing without slowing down or crashing.
- Security & Vulnerabilities: Work with security teams to automate security checks early in the development lifecycle, keeping data safe from threats.
- System Resilience: Push for testing methods that prove our systems can automatically recover if a server or network fails.

3. Leading and Scaling a 50-Person Team
- Large Team Management: Manage, guide, and inspire a large team of 50 QA members across different sub-teams (automation, performance, security, data

📌 QA Lead (Chennai Metropolitan Area)
🏢 Money Forward India
📍 Chennai Metropolitan Area