Quality Engineering Director

Lead and scale the organization’s software quality strategy across cloud-native digital products and platforms. Own QC governance, test automation, non-functional testing (performance/stress/security readiness), CI/CD quality gates, vendor quality management, and continuous improvement—ensuring releases are reliable, compliant, and production-ready.

Key Responsibilities:

Quality Strategy & Governance

• Define the QC vision, strategy, operating model, and quality standards across the SDLC.
• Establish and track quality KPIs (defect leakage, escape rate, automation coverage, release readiness).
• Own release quality criteria and enforce quality gates and sign-off processes.

Automation & Modern Testing Practices

• Lead the test automation roadmap: frameworks, coverage strategy, maintainability, reliability, and execution speed.
• Embed automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (shift-left + shift-right).
• Drive API testing, contract testing, and service-level testing for microservices.

Non-Functional Testing Leadership

• Own performance engineering: load, stress, endurance, scalability testing, and capacity baselining.
• Ensure test approaches support availability, resiliency, and cloud scaling characteristics.

DevOps & Toolchain Integration

• Integrate QC controls into DevOps practices (branching strategies, CI checks, environments, test reporting).
• Standardize tools and dashboards for executive visibility and auditability.

Continuous Improvement

• Lead root-cause analysis for critical defects and production incidents; drive preventive actions.
• Reduce test cycle time and improve release confidence through continuous process and tooling improvements.

Key Requirements:

• 11+ years of relevant experience in software quality control/quality engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science , Software Engineering , Information Systems , or a related technical field ( required ).
• Master’s degree in Software Engineering /Computer Science/IT Management ( preferred ).
• Strong background in software development (hands-on earlier in career preferred).
• Proven experience in test automation and building/leading automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native applications (microservices, containers, Kubernetes).
• Deep knowledge of all major testing types : functional, regression, integration, API, E2E, UAT support, performance/load/stress , reliability, and test data management.
• Experience with modern testing tools.
• Strong, practical experience with DevOps / CI/CD quality practices and release governance.
• Prior experience managing teams and working with vendors/third parties .