Description

Job Location The primary work location for this role is Trivandrum with a hybrid or remote work model.

About Envestnet

Envestnet is an adaptive WealthTech company that is redefining the future of wealth management by helping advisors meet the moment with its comprehensive technology, actionable insights, and industry leading support. Backed by over 25 years of experience and approximately $7.0 trillion in platform assets, Envestnet is trusted by over one third of financial advisors across leading banks, wealth managers, brokerages, and RIAs.

For a deeper look at how Envestnet is shaping the future of financial advice, visit www.envestnet.com.

The Team You’ll Join

You will join Envestnet’s Technology team, where we design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and robust WealthTech solutions that power the future of financial advice. The team collaborates closely with product, operations, and business stakeholders to drive innovation, enhance efficiency, and enable sustainable growth. Guided by modern engineering practices and a commitment to domain excellence, technical rigor, and collaboration, the Technology team ensures our platforms remain resilient, adaptable, and aligned with evolving business needs making it a core driver of Envestnet’s long term success.

How You’ll Contribute The Senior Director, Quality Assurance Engineering leads multiple QA organisations or portfolios and is accountable for consistent execution of quality strategy at scale. The role translates the departmental quality vision into road-maps, priorities, governance, and measurable outcomes across broad areas of responsibility. It partners with Engineering, Product, Architecture, Data, Security, Compliance, Operations, and Program leadership to strengthen built-in quality, release confidence, operational resilience, regulatory readiness, and client trust.

- Enterprise Quality Strategy &

- Portfolio Leadership

- Lead multiple QA organizations or portfolios, ensuring consistent execution of quality strategy across products, platforms, and major programs.
- Translate departmental quality vision into multi-year roadmaps, annual priorities, operating rhythms, and measurable business and quality outcomes.
- Align portfolio quality objectives with business priorities, client impact, regulatory obligations, platform modernization, and delivery commitments.
- Advise senior technology and business leaders on quality risk, investment tradeoffs, release confidence, and organizational readiness.

Quality Governance, Risk &

- Release Readiness

- Establish and enforce enterprise-level quality standards, governance models, release-readiness criteria, and evidence expectations.
- Oversee quality planning and risk management for large programs, complex releases, migrations, and cross-team initiatives.
- Ensure robust validation of security, data integrity, financial calculations, reporting, reconciliation, privacy, resiliency, and compliance-sensitive workflows.
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, Audit, Security, and Engineering to maintain audit readiness and address systemic control or quality gaps.

Quality Engineering Modernization

- Champion modernization of quality engineering practices, including test-first development, risk-based testing, continuous testing, intelligent automation, and production-informed validation.
- Drive scalable automation strategy across UI, API, service, backend, integration, mobile, data, and non-functional testing within CI/CD pipelines.
- Establish and govern reusable automated testing frameworks, standards, and patterns that improve maintainability, scalability,



reliability, and adoption across teams.
- Guide enterprise approaches for test environments, test data, service virtualization, observability, regression optimization, and automated release validation.
- Sponsor responsible adoption of AI-enabled and agentic quality engineering capabilities with governance, validation, traceability, and human oversight.

Metrics, Insights &

- Continuous Improvement

- Define and monitor portfolio-level quality KPIs, defect and escape trends, automation effectiveness, release risk, production signals, and client-impact indicators.
- Use data to identify systemic risks, prioritize improvements, evaluate investment outcomes, and drive corrective action.
- Provide concise, decision-oriented quality reporting and recommendations to senior and executive stakeholders.
- Ensure incident learnings, client feedback, and production behavior are converted into preventive improvements in architecture, coverage, and delivery practices.

Cross-Functional Partnership &

- Influence

- Partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, Data, Platform, Operations, Security, Compliance, and Program leaders to embed quality into planning and delivery decisions.
- Drive alignment across shared services, integrations, business processes, and cross-domain initiatives where quality ownership spans organizational boundaries.
- Promote quality as a shared organizational responsibility while maintaining transparent accountability for quality engineering governance and enablement.
- Represent QA Engineering in portfolio planning, transformation programs, vendor evaluations, and strategic investment decisions.

Organization, Talent &

- Financial Leadership

- Influence tooling, resourcing, workforce, vendor, and budget decisions to scale quality engineering capabilities effectively.
- Build leadership depth by coaching and developing Directors, Senior Managers, and senior technical quality leaders.
- Establish succession plans, capability-building priorities, communities of practice, and learning pathways aligned to future quality engineering needs.
- Create an inclusive, accountable, and continuous-learning culture that enables global teams to perform effectively.

What You’ll Need To Bring This Lead role requires Skilled proficiency in AI Quality Assurance job-family competencies, along with relevant experience in quality engineering and AI/ML validation.

- Progressive leadership experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Software Testing, or a related technology discipline, including leadership across multiple teams or portfolios.
- Demonstrated success defining and executing enterprise or portfolio quality strategy, governance, automation, and release-readiness practices.
- Strong knowledge of modern software delivery, Agile and product operating models, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud platforms, distributed systems, data platforms, and non-functional quality engineering.
- Experience leading quality for complex, integrated, business-critical, or highly regulated systems.
- Ability to translate technical quality signals into business risk, client impact, investment decisions, and executive recommendations.




- Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries, lead transformation, manage competing priorities, and develop senior leaders.
- Excellent written, verbal, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.

Nice-to-Haves

- Experience in financial services, wealth management, FinTech, or another regulated industry.
- Experience with audit readiness, risk and control frameworks, security and privacy testing, financial data integrity, and regulatory compliance.
- Experience modernizing enterprise automation platforms, test data and environment strategies, observability, performance, resiliency, and production quality practices.
- Experience governing AI-enabled testing, AI system validation, or agentic quality engineering approaches.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. An advanced degree is beneficial.

Why You’ll Enjoy Working at Envestnet Help shape the future of WealthTech. At Envestnet you’ll gain hands-on experience and collaborate with some of the industry’s brightest minds to deliver meaningful, innovative solutions that make a real difference. We value flexibility in how and where work gets done, and we recognize strong performance with meaningful rewards—because your contributions should drive both business success and your own personal growth. If you’re looking for a place where your work has impact, your development is supported, and your contributions are truly valued, Envestnet is where you can build your future.

The opportunity is now!

Our Investment in You

At Envestnet, our total rewards philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and grow exceptional talent.

We offer competitive, market-aligned compensation complemented with performance-linked incentives and rewards programs that recognize and reward impact.

In addition, we provide a comprehensive suite of benefits - subject to Envestnet’s plan eligibility rules - that support your overall well-being, including medical insurance for you and your family, annual health check-ups, free online doctor consultations and telemedicine services, subsidized health club memberships, and an employee assistance program. Our investment in you means supporting you professionally, financially, and personally at every stage of your journey with us.

Our Commitment to Inclusion &

- Belonging

Envestnet is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of religion, race, color, caste, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, disability, medical condition, nationality, ethnic origin, marital status, or any other status protected under applicable Indian law. This commitment is in accordance with the Constitution of India and applicable labor and employment laws. All employment decisions are made solely based on merit, qualifications, performance, and business needs.

We strive to provide an inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation, please contact us at [email protected]. Please include your full name, the title of the role you are applying for, and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

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📌 Senior Director, Quality Assurance Engineering (Thiruvananthapuram)
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📍 Thiruvananthapuram