Senior Manager, QA (Pune)

As a seasoned Senior Manager, Quality Assurance with over 15 years of experience in software quality engineering, functional validation, performance testing, and automation, you will play a crucial role in defining and driving the QA strategy across multiple product lines. Your deep expertise in automation frameworks and performance testing will be instrumental in ensuring quality remains a core pillar of delivery. Additionally, experience with Agentic AI in testing and test automation will be considered a valuable plus. Key Responsibilities: - Leadership & Strategy - Lead QA Managers, Senior Engineers, and geographically distributed teams across multiple product lines. - Define the QA roadmap focusing on functional correctness, performance, scalability, and automation coverage. - Collaborate closely with Product Management, Development, and DevOps leaders to integrate quality into every stage of delivery. - Functional & Performance Testing - Oversee comprehensive functional testing strategies ensuring correctness across web, API, and microservices platforms. - Build and scale performance testing practices, focusing on load, stress, scalability, and reliability metrics. - Drive the adoption of performance benchmarking and monitoring integrated into CI/CD pipelines. - Automation & Quality Engineering - Enhance automation coverage using modern frameworks and tools (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, RestAssured, JMeter, etc.). - Implement shift-left testing and integrate automation into CI/CD for continuous validation. - Explore AI-assisted defect detection, regression prioritization, and self-healing tests to complement standard automation. - Operational Excellence - Define and monitor QA KPIs, dashboards, and release quality metrics to drive accountability. - Ensure compliance and security testing are embedded into QA practices. - Foster a culture of innovation and ownership within the QA team. Qualifications: - 15 years of progressive experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, and QA Leadership roles. - Proven track record in leading functional and performance testing strategies at scale. - Strong expertise in automation frameworks and performance testing tools. - Experience working with cloud-native applications, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps environments. - Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills. - Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent field. Good to Have: - Exposure to Agentic AI in testing and test automation, including use of AI-driven tools for test case generation, defect analysis, and autonomous regression. - Knowledge of cybersecurity testing, compliance validation, and risk-based QA. - Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker). - Experience with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) validation, AI observability, and intelligent monitoring. In this role, you will have the prospect to lead and scale QA transformation with a focus on functional excellence and performance at scale. You will work on next-generation testing practices, with exposure to Agentic AI advancements in QA, and collaborate with global teams driving cutting-edge technology platforms. Shape the future of automation and quality engineering at enterprise scale by joining us. .