The OpportunityWe're not looking for a test manager. We're looking for a quality engineer who leads—someone who treats testing as a data science problem, not a checklist. You'll own quality across a up-to-date .NET/Angular/SQL SaaS running on Azure, evolve our Playwright-based automation, and embed AI agents to make testing smarter, faster, and self-healing. You'll manage a blended team of automation and manual engineers—and stay hands-on enough to debug pipelines, review code, and unblock your team.Salary: $6,000 - $7,000 USD per month What You'll OwnStrategy & Forward-Looking RoadmapDefine a 12–18 month quality roadmap that balances speed, coverage, and costAI-assisted workflows—test generation from production logs, flaky-test auto-quarantine, visual AI diffing, and predictive risk-based test selectionShift quality left (design/PR reviews) and right (production observability, canary monitoring)Establish quality SLOs (flakiness < 5%, suite runtime <15 min, escape rate < 2%)Hands-On Technical LeadershipArchitect test frameworks that scale across microservices and Angular frontendsDesign SQL test data strategies—synthetic data, anonymized production clones, and on-demand seed scriptsOptimize CI/CD quality gates in Azure DevOps with intelligent parallelizationLeverage Azure services for test infrastructure—containerized test runners, scale sets, and cloud-hosted agent poolsTeam & Delivery OptimizationManage and mentor 5–10 engineers (mix of automation SDETs and manual testers)Upskill manual engineers into automation engineers within 6–9 months via pair-coding and structured learningImplement RCA (Root Cause Analysis)



discipline—blameless postmortems that drive systemic fixes, not band-aidsOptimize for maximum delivery velocity—know when to cut, defer, or automate tests based on risk and ROIMetrics & Continuous ImprovementDefine and track: defect escape rate, MTTR, flakiness %, test pass rate per build, and pipeline reliabilityBuild executive dashboards that translate quality into business metrics (revenue protected, incidents avoided)Run quarterly quality audits to reassess tooling, processes, and team compositionWhat You Bring8+ years in QA/QE, with 3+ years managing a hybrid (manual + automation) team in a SaaS environmentDeep hands-on experience with Playwright (UI + API) and modern JS/TS testing patternsStrong understanding of .NET (C#) backend and Angular frontend architectures—enough to debug failures and guide testabilitySolid SQL skills—able to write complex queries for data validation, test seeding, and reportingProven experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines with quality gatesTrack record of implementing AI/ML in testing—even if experimental—with clear outcomesData-driven decision-maker—you use metrics to optimize, not just reportHands-on enough to jump into a flaky test or pipeline failure personallyCoach-first—you grow people, not just processesBlameless, collaborative—you partner with devs, product, and ops as equalsHow to Stand OutShare a 1-pager with us:One metric you'd change and whyA specific RCA you led that changed the system, not just the testA case study or before/after snapshot of a team or process you optimized—include baseline metrics, what you did, and the outcomes achieved

📌 Quality Assurance Manager (India)
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📍 India