Director, QA Engineering
HybridPune, Maharashtra, India
Job Summary
Lead global Quality Engineering strategy for Payment To Go, Financial Messaging, and US Payments, transforming reactive QA into proactive, AI-first engineering. Define enterprise-wide quality frameworks, governance models, and KPIs to drive predictable, metrics-driven releases with superior customer outcomes. Embed quality early in design cycles, championing shift-left and shift-right testing strategies across functional, performance, security, and compliance domains. Establish scalable test architectures for cloud-native platforms and microservices, ensuring 100% automated regression coverage and seamless CI/CD integration. Partner with R&D Development to reduce defect leakage, improve release stability, and accelerate delivery cycles while mentoring high-performing global teams.
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 15+ years in QA/Engineering leadership roles
- Experience managing large global teams (50 upto100) across geographies
- Deep expertise in: Test automation frameworks
- Deep expertise in: Performance and resilience testing
- Deep expertise in: CI/CD and DevOps integration
- Deep expertise in: Defect management and quality governance
- Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, and cloud-native architectures
Desired Qualifications
- Experience driving AI/ML adoption in QA Engineering, including: Automated test generation
- Experience driving AI/ML adoption in QA Engineering, including: Intelligent defect analytics
- Experience driving AI/ML adoption in QA Engineering, including: AI-driven quality insights
- Familiarity with MLOps and AI-assisted engineering workflows
- Experience in payments or financial services domain preferred
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
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