Job Summary

The Associate Vice President – Testing (Testing CoE) will lead and strengthen the Testing Center of Excellence within the Enterprise Technology function .

This role will be responsible for defining and driving the organization’s quality engineering vision by establishing standardized testing frameworks, promoting automation-first strategies, and ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performing digital solutions across enterprise platforms.

As a strategic leader, the incumbent will champion delivery excellence, foster a strong quality culture, and enable faster time-to-market with minimal defect leakage. Working closely with technology, product, and business stakeholders, this role will play a key part in enhancing API platform reliability, optimizing middleware ecosystems, and ensuring seamless digital experiences aligned with the organization’s broader transformation agenda.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

- Lead the Testing CoE to deliver large-scale digital initiatives in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Agile teams.
- Define and implement a comprehensive testing strategy aligned with organizational objectives.
- Establish governance frameworks, standards, and decision-making protocols for testing practices.
- Manage a core internal team while overseeing a larger extended/vendor workforce across roles such as Project Managers, Analysts, Engineers, and QA Leads.

Testing Excellence

- Design and institutionalize standardized testing methodologies, processes, and toolsets across the enterprise.
- Drive automation-first practices to enhance coverage,



efficiency, and defect prevention.
- Evaluate and manage testing tools, platforms, and infrastructure for enterprise-scale delivery.
- Define, monitor, and improve key quality metrics to ensure effective and efficient delivery.
- Ensure high-quality delivery of integration and middleware components aligned with architecture and engineering standards.

Knowledge Management & Enablement

- Promote knowledge sharing and reuse across testing and integration functions.
- Enable teams through training, mentoring, and adoption of best practices in testing.
- Stay updated on emerging trends and technologies in quality engineering and drive internal adoption where relevant.

Competencies & Skills Required

- 12–15 years of experience in IT, with strong exposure to testing leadership roles.
- Proven expertise in building secure, scalable, and high-performance integration and testing solutions.
- Solid understanding of enterprise architecture, integration patterns, and domain-driven systems (BFSI exposure preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams and manage vendor ecosystems effectively.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a focus on delivery excellence

Key Relationships

Internal:

- Senior Digital & Technology Leadership
- Product and Engineering Teams
- Enterprise Architecture and IT Operations

External:

- Technology and integration partners
- Business stakeholders and partner teams
- Consulting organizations

📌 Lead / AVP - Testing (TCoE) (India)
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📍 India