Job Description

This director changes how QAD builds and proves quality in Adaptive ERP. The goal is continuous, automated evidence that every release, patch, and update works in environments that look like customers' own, not a QA stage at the end. This leader owns quality standards, regression automation, and release gates, and has the authority to stop a release that does not meet them. We are not looking for a QA manager. We need a leader who will reshape how the organization thinks about quality.

Responsibilities

- Build and lead the central Quality Engineering organization: strategy, staffing, capability, and results.

- Define quality standards and evidence-based release gates covering installation, configuration, upgrades, patches, integrations, and end-to-end business flows.

- Hold the authority to block a release that fails those gates.

- Lead regression automation: one framework, a suite covering the defined test surface, and a measurable coverage ramp, integrated into development and deployment pipelines.

- Qualify releases in customer-representative environments and configurations.

- Apply AI across the quality lifecycle, including test generation, maintenance, and defect analysis.

- Make quality visible with data: coverage, escaped defects, regression results, and release readiness.

- Own the quality assessment against agreed release gates and escalate unmet criteria through the release decision process.

Qualifications

Required





- Senior quality engineering leadership on large enterprise SaaS products, including organizational and process transformation. ERP experience is not required.

- Expertise in automation architecture, continuous testing, CI/CD, branch strategy, and risk-based qualification.

- Practical experience applying AI to testing or software engineering, with evidence it worked.

- Data-driven judgment and the confidence to push back on senior leaders, including the SVP, when quality standards are not met.

Preferred

- Experience testing ERP or similarly complex enterprise applications.

- Experience qualifying repeatable upgrades and patches in controlled configurations.

What success looks like

Release decisions made on evidence, continuous regression running on every change, rising coverage of critical customer flows, and a sustained drop in escaped defects.

Additional Information

- Your health and well being are key to us at QAD. We provide programs that help you strike a healthy work-life balance.
- Opportunity to join a growing business, launching into its next phase of expansion and transformation.
- Collaborative culture of smart and hard-working people who support one another to get the job done.
- An atmosphere of growth and opportunity, where idea-sharing is always prioritized over level or hierarchy.
- Compensation packages based on experience and desired skill set

📌 Director, Quality Engineering and Automation (India)
🏢 QAD
📍 India