Description
This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Salary range: Rs 5000000 - Rs 12500000 (ie INR 50-125 LPA)

Experience: 10+ yrs
Location: Gurgaon
Job Type: full time

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Director of Quality Engineering to lead and scale our Quality Engineering function. This leadership role is responsible for driving quality strategy, establishing engineering excellence, and ensuring the delivery of highly reliable, scalable, and secure software products. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Quality Engineering, SDET practices, Software Testing, QA Automation, and Test Strategy, along with proven experience leading large QA organizations in fast-paced product and technology environments.
As a key member of the engineering leadership team, you will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, and Business stakeholders to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle. You will champion modern testing methodologies, automation-first approaches, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.

Requirements




Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the organization-wide Quality Engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Build, mentor, and lead high-performing teams of Quality Engineers, SDETs, Test Architects, and QA Managers.
- Establish scalable quality processes, standards, and best practices across multiple product lines and engineering teams.
- Drive the adoption of automation frameworks, continuous testing, and quality metrics to improve product reliability and release confidence.
- Oversee test planning, test execution, regression testing, performance testing, integration testing, and end-to-end validation activities.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to implement quality gates within CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.
- Develop and monitor KPIs related to product quality, defect leakage, test coverage, automation effectiveness, and release readiness.
- Lead risk assessment ac

📌 Director Quality Engineering (Gurugram)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Gurugram