Role Description
The Quality Engineering Leader is responsible for driving the end-to-end software quality strategy across the global product engineering organization. This role provides: leadership to Quality Engineering Leads, SDETs, and Test Architects; establishes organization-wide quality standards; and ensures that all products meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, security, and customer experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the organization-wide Quality Engineering vision, strategy, and operating model.
- Establish quality standards, test architecture guidelines, quality gates, and best practices across all scrum teams.
- Lead and develop a high-performing organization of Leads, SDETs, and Test Architects.
- Own the strategy and roadmap for test automation frameworks, reusable libraries, test data management, and infrastructure.
- Oversee automation development for UI, API, microservices, .NET client components, and integration layers.
- Define and govern processes for performance, scalability, resilience, security, and load testing.
- Establish SLO/SLA standards and ensure systems meet performance baselines across all environments.
- Partner with engineering, product, and DevOps leadership to ensure release quality and readiness.
- Drive reduction of defect escape rates, flaky tests, pipeline failures, and rollback frequency.
- Evaluate and adopt new testing tools, automation technologies, and DevOps practices.
- Represent the Quality function in internal, external, and customer audits, executive discussions and planning forums.
- Ensure compliance with corporate policies related to information security and data privacy.
Ideal Candidate
Educational Qualifications
Bachelor/Master of Engineering or equivalent in Computer Engineering, IT, or related field
Experience
- 15+ years of experience in Quality Engineering / Software Test Automation.
- Hands-on leadership experience of multi-team QE organizations including QE Leads and Test Architects.
- Experience in automation for microservices, cloud-native applications, MERN stack components.
- Strong technical expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript automation frameworks.
- Deep understanding of AWS architectures, containerization, CI/CD platforms.
- Experience driving performance, security, and reliability testing strategies.
- Proven track record of improving engineering quality metrics.
- Hands-on experience in Agile/Scrum environments.
Desired Skills
- Experience with Atlassian suite of tools
- Experience with informatics applications or GxP compliant applications
- Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management
