Position Summary:

To help drive this next chapter, we're seeking a strategic and innovative Director, Quality Engineering, to lead our Non-Functional Quality Engineering organization. This role defines and executes the technology vision, engineering strategy, and delivery roadmap for performance engineering, resilience engineering, quality governance, and AI-enabled quality engineering capabilities. As a people leader, you will build and develop high-performing engineering teams while driving modernization, automation, operational excellence, and scalable quality engineering solutions across the enterprise.

The ideal candidate combines deep quality engineering expertise, proven people leadership experience, and a passion for leveraging AI, automation, and cloud technologies to improve software quality, scalability, reliability, and customer experiences.

Job Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership:

- Develop and evolve roadmaps for quality engineering capabilities.
- Align technology and testing strategies with enterprise business objectives.
- Own departmental priorities, resource planning, and delivery outcomes with minimal oversight.
- Drive innovation through AI-enabled quality engineering, automation, and emerging testing technologies.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Operations teams to improve overall software quality

People Leadership:

- Lead, mentor, and develop quality engineering managers, technical leaders, and quality engineering teams.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Drive talent development, succession planning, and employee engagement initiatives.
- Establish quality engineering standards, governance, and operational excellence practices.

Technology & Delivery:

- Oversee functional and non-functional testing, load testing, resilience testing, security testing, environment, data and automation engineering initiatives.
- Ensure enterprise applications meet scalability, reliability, security, performance and customer journey testing objectives.




- Lead modernization efforts involving AI-enabled testing and autonomous quality engineering.
- Drive continuous improvement and enterprise quality practices.
- Establish governance frameworks supporting quality engineering at scale

AI & Innovation:

- Drive adoption of AI-enabled quality engineering capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to leverage automation and intelligent testing strategies.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and develop future-state quality engineering roadmaps.
- Champion data-driven quality engineering and operational decision-making.

Qualifications:

Required Experience:

- 14-18 years of progressive software engineering and quality engineering experience.
- Proven experience managing and developing technical teams of individual contributors.
- Demonstrated ability to own and execute departmental strategy with minimal oversight.
- Strong experience with performance engineering, scalability engineering, security testing, resilience engineering, test environment management, service virtualization, and test automation.
- Hands-on experience with Performance Center or comparable enterprise performance testing platforms.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale quality engineering transformations.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Experience operating within Agile and Dev Ops delivery environments.

Required Technical Skills:

- Enterprise Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) Engineering Leadership
- Quality Strategy, Automation & Engineering Governance
- AI-Enabled Autonomous Quality Engineering
- Performance & Load Testing
- Security & Resilience Engineering
- Executive Stakeholder Management

Preferred Skills & Experience:





- Performance Center
- Agentic AI-Enabled Quality Engineering
- Playwright
- Appium
- Sauce Labs
- Service Virtualization Tools (RIT, Micro Focus)
- Experience implementing enterprise automation strategies
- Experience

Education:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering or equivalent CE leading globally distributed engineering teams

Note: This position is based in Pune, and applications are currently being considered from candidates based in Pune.

Talent Value Proposition statement:

At DIRECTV India, we're building a culture with our people, not for them, grounded in the values of We Care, We Challenge, and We Deliver. We will focus on building a better future than yesterday for our colleagues, customers, and company. As part of our team, you'll help shape the future of enterprise data platforms, enable advanced analytics and AI innovation, and contribute to business-critical capabilities that impact millions of customers. If you're ready to bring your expertise, leadership, and passion for innovation to a team redefining entertainment technology, we'd love to have you join us on this journey.

Headquartered in El Segundo, California, DIRECTV has been a household name in sports and entertainment for 30 years. We've grown our global footprint with DIRECTV India, a capability center in Pune built to support our operations and speed up how we build current technology. Here, our teams work on the platforms and products that bring together satellite and streaming, so customers get their favorite content without the hassle of switching between apps or inputs. From AI-driven personalization to content built around what people actually want to watch, we're shaping what entertainment looks like next, and Pune is a big part of that.

DIRECTV is an equal chance employer. Employment decisions are based on business requirements, qualifications, merit, and performance, without discrimination on the basis of legally protected characteristics under applicable laws.

📌 Director, Quality Engineering IND (India)
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