Job Summary

Role: Day Zero Lead — Generic QE

Experience: Senior Manager to Director (~14–20 Years)

Profile: Senior, industry-agnostic Day Zero QE lead for engagement mobilization and account stabilization

Role Summary

Looking for a senior QE skilled, in the Senior Manager to Director range, to take on a Day Zero role: ensuring new engagements start green right after an RFP win, and stepping into existing accounts in the geography that are facing delivery issues. This is a generic QE profile — not tied to a specific industry — with deep experience setting up testing centers, leading large QA programs, and managing global testing delivery, along with current awareness of AI/ML and agentic AI developments in QE.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

- Ensure every new engagement (post-RFP win) mobilizes to a green start — test strategy, staffing, tooling, and governance defined from day one
- Step into existing accounts in the geography facing delivery issues and drive stabilization/turnaround
- Set up and run testing centers/QA CoEs for large accounts — operating model, staffing pyramid, tooling, and governance
- Lead large-scale QA programs end-to-end across functional, automation, performance, and test data workstreams
- Manage global testing delivery — distributed teams, multiple time zones, and multi-vendor/onshore-offshore models
- Introduce and scale the latest QE tooling, including AI/ML-based testing and agentic AI accelerators,



into engagement setup and recovery plans
- Engage directly with senior client stakeholders during kick-off and account recovery situations

Skill Requirements

Primary Skills (Must Have)

- Strong end-to-end test lifecycle expertise — strategy, functional, automation, performance, test data, DevOps integration
- Proven experience setting up and running testing centers/QA CoEs for large accounts
- Track record leading large QA programs and managing global testing delivery
- Significant customer-facing/onsite experience across the career (not mandatory going forward, but a strong track record)
- Working knowledge of the latest AI/ML and agentic AI developments as applied to QE
- Strong stakeholder management and executive-ready communication

Secondary Skills

- Experience with delivery governance, SLAs/KPIs, and account health metrics
- Multi-industry, multi-geography delivery exposure
- Experience partnering with sales/practice teams on post-win mobilization

Must Have Skill

Analytical Performance Testing,Analytics - Automation Testing,RFI/ RFP Responses,Stakeholder Management,Test Architecture,Agentic AI

Good to Have Skill

Other Requirements

Nice to Have

- Exposure to proposal solutioning or presales handoff
- Certifications in test management, automation, or AI/GenAI tooling
- Track record of publishing internal playbooks or best practices

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