About CIBC:

CIBC is a leading North American bank, with a history of more than 150 years of living our purpose - to help make your ambition a reality. Client relationships are at the center of our strategy, and our growth is enabled by a highly engaged and connected global team. From digital banking to community impact, we’re proud to drive progress for our clients and our communities.

Recognized for our culture, award-winning innovation and community investment, CIBC continues to evolve by putting people and progress at the centre of everything we do.

About CIBC India:

CIBC India is a technology and operations hub in Hyderabad, where you’ll be part of our highly engaged and global team, and play a central role in supporting our growth. Whether you’re driving innovation in digital banking or streamlining client onboarding, you’ll be part of a culture recognized for excellence and investment in people. At CIBC India, people and progress are at the center of what we do: you’ll develop skills, collaborate with industry leaders, and see your ideas realized in a culture that values progress and belonging.

We provide cutting-edge resources, ongoing learning, and a supportive environment where people come first. If you’re ready to create meaningful change and build your future, CIBC India is where your ambition meets opportunity.

What CIBC India Offers:

At CIBC India, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career that goes well beyond your compensation.

We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including competitive fixed pay, performance-based incentive programs, a family-first benefits program, employer contributions for your retirement, attractive time off and leave offerings, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.

Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients worldwide

We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day, a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.

What You’ll Be Doing (position summary):

- As a hands-on Senior QA Engineer, you will lead quality engineering for data platforms aligned to a multi-year product roadmap. Working with Product, Architecture, Data, and business stakeholders, you will translate business goals into scalable test strategies using enterprise standards and up-to-date QA practices.
- You will manage 8–10 QA engineers supporting Data Engineering and establish consistent quality practices across Databricks and PySpark solutions. You will oversee test planning, automation, execution, defect management, and release validation for secure cloud data pipelines, ETL, analytics, data quality, and lineage.
- You will drive QA excellence through automation standards, peer reviews, mentoring, sprint and release discipline, and shift-left testing.



You will allocate resources, remove SDLC bottlenecks, track defects and quality metrics, improve coverage and delivery effectiveness, and support release readiness.
- You will lead QA estimation intake, identify automation opportunities, define and track KPIs, and drive Agile Scrum practices including capacity planning, story pointing, velocity tracking, and ceremonies. POCs may be required to validate tools, frameworks, and test approaches.
- Success in this role requires strong communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, with the ability to build alignment, facilitate solution discussions, and guide decisions through governance forums.
- This role is one of the early hires for US Technology, Data & AI at CIBC India, helping establish cross-site alignment and a strong engineering culture supporting enterprise and TDAI priorities. Work arrangements, including on-site and remote work, will be discussed during the interview process.
- At CIBC India we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (including on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.

How You’ll Succeed (responsibilities):

- Quality Delivery: Set quality goals, align testing to business strategy, translate priorities into QA roadmaps, define success metrics, manage dependencies, and use risk-based decisions. Leverage GitHub Copilot to accelerate test development.
- QA Strategy and Automation: Define test strategy and automation architecture for secure, scalable data solutions. Improve standards through PySpark testing, CI/CD quality gates, observability, regression suites, data validation, and defect prevention.
- Risk and Compliance Oversight: Promote a risk-aware culture, align with departmental goals, embed privacy and security by design, and partner with Compliance and Audit on governance and reporting.
- Stakeholder Influence and Team Development: Build strong relationships across product, engineering, operations, and U.S.-based teams; influence senior stakeholders; communicate quality risks and trade-offs; manage 8–10 QA engineers; and raise standards through mentoring, reviews, and knowledge sharing.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

- Technology management teams to ensure shared accountability for Technology strategy and objectives
- Enterprise Technology colleagues to ensure strategic alignment across projects
- Internal business partners including executive heads of CIBC lines of business, leadership teams, partner teams, and centres of excellence
- External technology vendors and partners providing critical solutions and services
- As an employee of CIBC,



the incumbent must comply with all applicable CIBC and Line of Business policies, standards, guidelines and controls.
- As a key contributor to the business unit, this role has authority to recommend changes to business processes to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Our CIBC risk culture expects employees to identify, escalate, and help mitigate risk as part of daily responsibilities. We are all accountable for managing risk.
- As an employee of CIBC, the incumbent must conduct themselves, and foster an environment for others, in a manner consistent with our strong risk culture. This includes:
- Following the CIBC Code of Conduct and all applicable policies, frameworks, guidelines, processes, and controls
- Acting in accordance with our Purpose and shared values to support the Bank’s strategic goals
- Understanding and following the qualitative and quantitative components of our Risk Appetite Statements
- Completing all required mandatory training and applying the learnings in daily work
- Escalating concerns through appropriate channels such as HR, management, Ethics Hotline, or Whistleblower
- Speaking up when witnessing behaviors that create poor or unfair outcomes for clients, team members, or stakeholders
- Escalating matters that may result in adverse market practices or reputational harm to CIBC.

Experience: 10+ years of experience

Must Have Skills:

- 10+ years of QA or quality engineering experience, ideally in financial services or enterprise technology
- 5+ years leading QA teams for data applications, including direct management of 8–10 engineers
- Strong proficiency in Databricks, PySpark, SQL, ETL testing, Azure, and REST API validation
- Deep experience testing ingestion, transformation, pipeline, reporting, and analytics solutions
- Hands-on test automation using Python/PySpark, reusable frameworks, mocks, and data reconciliation
- Ability to define test strategy, coverage, traceability, entry/exit criteria, and release readiness
- Strong CI/CD quality practices, including automated gates, regression suites, and defect controls
- Ability to set quality goals aligned to organizational strategy and solve complex problems
- Experience validating schema, completeness, accuracy, lineage, performance, and security controls
- Experience shaping QA roadmaps and acting as a trusted advisor to engineering and business teams
- Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management across IT and business teams
- Ability to identify risks early, manage defects, report quality metrics, and lead through ambiguity
- Experience with Agile, DevOps, test-data management, and modern engineering practices.

Good to Have:

- Databricks certification or recognized test automation certification is an asset

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📌 Senior QA Engineer-29923] (Hyderabad)
🏢 CIBC India
📍 Hyderabad