Manager - QA
Department: IT
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Pune
Reporting To: Vinay Supekar

Description
Davies is looking for an experienced Manager - Software Quality Assurance (QA) to lead the quality engineering function and ensure reliable, secure, and high-quality software delivery across products and platforms. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Development, this role will be accountable for QA strategy, people leadership, test governance, automation direction, release readiness, quality metrics, and continuous improvement. The successful candidate will combine solid quality engineering expertise with the ability to lead teams, influence delivery stakeholders, manage risks, and embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the QA strategy, operating model, standards, processes, and roadmap across software delivery teams.

• Lead, coach, and develop QA engineers, including objective setting, regular feedback, capability development, workload planning, and performance support.





• Establish risk-based test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, data validation, API, performance, security, accessibility, and user acceptance testing, as applicable.

• Own test planning, estimation, resourcing, prioritization, and execution across multiple projects, releases, and delivery teams.

• Drive the test automation strategy, framework governance, tool selection, coverage improvement, maintainability, and integration into CI/CD pipelines.

• Partner with product, engineering, architecture, business, and delivery leaders to define acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements, quality gates, and release readiness.

• Provide clear go/no-go recommendations based on test evidence, defect risk, business impact, and agreed quality thresholds.

• Define, monitor, and report quality metrics such as defect leakage, automation coverage, test effectiveness, execution progress, escaped defec

📌 Manager - QA (Pune)
🏢 Davies
📍 Pune