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Job Title:  Associate Director | Functional / Manual Testing | Mumbai | Engineering

Job Title: Associate Director/Sr. Manager– Enterprise Quality Engineering

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly accomplished Sr. Test Manager to lead end-to-end Quality Engineering initiatives across complex enterprise programs. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership, strategic vision, and hands-on expertise in Functional, Non-Functional, Automation, and Performance Testing. This role demands the ability to drive quality transformation, scale QE delivery models, and align testing strategy with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Quality Strategy & Governance

  • Define and implement enterprise-level Test Strategy & Quality Roadmap
  • Establish governance models covering SIT, UAT, Regression, NFT
  • Drive Shift-Left and Shift-Right Quality Engineering practices
  • Own entry/exit criteria, quality gates, and release sign-offs
  • Present quality metrics to CXO stakeholders

2. Program & Delivery Leadership

  • Lead large cross-functional QA teams (20–100+ members)
  • Manage multi-vendor and distributed delivery models
  • Plan estimations, budgeting, capacity planning, and forecasting
  • Drive risk-based testing and critical defect triage
  • Ensure on-time release readiness across multiple tracks

3. Functional & Automation Excellence

  • Oversee automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Tosca, API automation)
  • Improve regression efficiency through CI/CD integration
  • Establish traceability (RTM), test coverage, and quality dashboards
  • Promote reusability, script optimization, and framework scalability

4. Non-Functional & Performance Engineering

  • Own performance strategy (Load, Stress, Soak, Scalability testing)
  • Define NFRs – TPS, concurrency, response time SLAs
  • Drive observability and production monitoring alignment
  • Ensure resilience, failover, and capacity validation

5. Stakeholder & Client Management

  • Act as single point of accountability for Quality
  • Engage Business, Architecture, DevOps, and Infra teams
  • Lead UAT governance with business stakeholders
  • Provide executive-level dashboards & reporting

6. Process & Transformation

  • Implement QE maturity models (TMMi / Custom Maturity Framework)
  • Drive AI-enabled testing (LLM validation, synthetic monitoring, bot testing)
  • Standardize tools and eliminate redundancy
  • Build Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) frameworks

Required Skills & Competencies

Leadership Competencies

  • Strategic thinker with execution rigor
  • Strong negotiation and escalation management skills
  • Decision-making under pressure
  • Influencing senior stakeholders

Technical Expertise

  • Automation Tools: Selenium, Playwright, Tosca
  • Performance Tools: LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, K6
  • API Testing: Postman, Rest Assured
  • CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git
  • Test Management: JIRA, ALM, Azure Test Plans
  • Cloud & DevOps familiarity (Azure/AWS)

Quality Engineering Capabilities

  • Risk-based test modeling
  • Test coverage analysis
  • Workload modeling
  • Production defect leakage reduction
  • Defect prevention strategy

KPIs / Success Metrics

  • Reduction in defect leakage to production
  • Regression automation coverage > 75%
  • Performance SLA adherence > 95%
  • Release cycle time improvement
  • Improved test case productivity
  • Reduction in environment-related delays

Experience & Qualifications

  • 12–20+ years in Quality Engineering
  • Proven leadership of large-scale enterprise programs
  • Experience in BFSI / Telecom / Oil & Gas preferred
  • ISTQB / Agile certifications preferred
  • Experience in SAP / Core Banking / CRM / Digital Channels is a plus
  • Drives quality as a business enabler, not just a validation function
  • Blends architecture mindset with delivery governance
  • Balances automation, performance, and business quality objectives
  • Scales teams from tactical QA to strategic QE transformation

 

Location

  • Mumbai (Sevri/Wadala) This is a mandatory requirement.
  • Mumbai Based. To be working out of Mumbai Sevri Location. Work Location is Non-Negotiable .


Educational Qualifications

  • The candidate should have an educational background of BE / BTech in IT / Computer Science / Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering / EEE / Electronics ONLY.

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