QA Automation - Senior Manager

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Job Description

Experience: 15+ years of Quality Engineering experience with strong exposure to automation and manual testing, managing large‑scale QE programs.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a Program Manager Quality Engineering with 15+ years of experience to lead large-scale Quality Engineering initiatives within the BFSI domain.

• Demonstrated experience leading and scaling large, geographically distributed QE organizations with a balanced onshore-offshore delivery model

• Own test strategy, test planning, and execution for data pipelines and analytics platforms.

• Manage QE teams, including resource allocation, coordination, and delivery governance.

• Drive process improvements to optimize quality, cost, and timelines.

• Strong governance and stakeholder management experience, including executive communication and client engagement.

• Support RFPs, RFIs, and client pursuits by defining QE strategy, operating model, governance framework, team construct, and value proposition.

• Collaborate closely with development and data engineering teams on defect resolution.

• Provide accurate testing estimations and quality reporting.

• Lead a team of SDETs, QE engineers, and manual testers; foster a culture of quality, reusability, and automation-first

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives via test metrics, RCA, defect leakage trends, and QE process optimization

• Support proposal, RFP, and stakeholder presentations by articulating QE capability maturity, roadmap, and measurable outcomes (KPIs, ROI, coverage)

• Required Skills

• Experience working in BFSI/Wealth/Capital Markets domain; prior exposure to Enterprise Risk platforms, data governance, or regulatory workflows is a strong plus

• Exposure to AI/ML/GenAI tools in testing & QE is a strong plus

• Proven ability to mentor and scale QE teams, establish best practices, and manage client expectations

• Strong interpersonal skills for stakeholder engagement across BAs, Product Owners, Architects, and Delivery Leads

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Mandatory Competencies

QA/QE - QA Automation - Selenium

QA/QE - QA Automation - Rest Assured

QA/QE - QA Automation - Basic Build, Deployment and CI/CD

QA/QE - QA Automation - BDD / Cucumber

QA/QE - QA Automation - Xpath

QA/QE - QA Automation - Web Analytics Testing

QE - Risk Management

QA/QE - QA Automation - Framework creation for testing

QA/QE - QA Automation - TestNG

Database - Oracle - Database Design

QA/QE - QA Automation - Junit

QA/QE - QA Automation - Automation of Rest, Web / SOAP UI Services

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