Job Description Application QA Manager

Job Summary

The Application QA Lead Manager is responsible for leading, building, and continuously improving the quality assurance function across enterprise application portfolios. This role owns the QA strategy, test governance, automation roadmap, and team development ensuring that all application releases meet the highest standards of quality, reliability, and performance. The Application QA Lead Manager serves as the primary quality authority, partnering with engineering, product, and delivery leadership to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the enterprise QA strategy, standards, and testing governance framework across all application delivery programs
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of QA Test Engineers setting performance expectations, guiding skill development, and driving team engagement
- Establish and maintain test processes across functional, regression, integration, performance, and user acceptance testing (UAT)




- Own the test automation roadmap; drive adoption of automation frameworks across CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery cycles
- Serve as the escalation point for critical test failures, quality incidents, and release-blocking defects
- Partner with engineering leads, architects, and product owners to integrate quality gates at every stage of the SDLC
- Define, track, and report on quality KPIs (e.g., defect density, test coverage, escape rate, automation ratio)
- Oversee test setting management, data management strategies, and tooling governance
- Lead QA planning activities for major releases, platform migrations, and client onboarding programs
- Review and maintain QA documentation including test plans, SOPs, runbooks, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- Collaborate with DevOps and release management teams to ensure automated test execution is embedded within CI/CD pipelines
- Champion Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and s

📌 Application QA Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 Technogen India
📍 Hyderabad