Quality Engineer

Role & responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Quality Engineering Leadership

• Define and execute the organization's Quality Engineering vision and roadmap.
• Drive shift-left and automation-first quality practices across product teams.
• Establish scalable quality governance frameworks, standards, and best practices.
• Champion innovation, simplification, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Automation Excellence

• Design and implement scalable UI, API, Mobile, and Database automation frameworks.
• Improve automation coverage, execution efficiency, and quality gate effectiveness.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines using DevOps best practices.
• Drive reusable framework development and test asset standardization.

Performance Engineering

• Lead performance testing strategy including Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance, and Scalability testing.
• Define performance benchmarks, capacity planning, and resilience validation approaches.
• Establish performance engineering practices early in the delivery lifecycle.
• Analyze bottlenecks and recommend optimization solutions.

DevOps & CI/CD

• Collaborate with development and platform teams to implement quality controls within delivery pipelines.
• Integrate automated validation, smoke testing, regression execution, and reporting into Azure DevOps/Jenkins pipelines.
• Implement quality gates and release readiness criteria.
• Promote Continuous Testing practices within DevOps ecosystems.

SAFe Ways of Working

• Enable quality ownership across Agile Release Trains and Product Teams.
• Participate in PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, System Demos, and Release Governance.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration among Product, Engineering, Architecture, and Operations teams.
• Support Agile transformation initiatives through quality engineering practices.

Innovation & Optimization

• Evaluate emerging technologies including AI-assisted testing and Quality Intelligence solutions.
• Drive productivity improvements through automation, GenAI, and process optimization.
• Identify opportunities to reduce testing effort while increasing product quality.
• Lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) and innovation initiatives.

Metrics & Reporting

• Define and track quality KPIs and operational metrics.
• Measure ROI of automation, performance optimization, and continuous improvement programs.
• Present executive-level dashboards and insights to leadership.
• Drive data-based decisions using measurable outcomes.

Required Skills

Technical Expertise

• Automation: Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, REST Assured
• Programming: Java, JavaScript/TypeScript
• Performance Testing: JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling or equivalent
• API Testing & Service Virtualization
• Database Testing & SQL

DevOps & Cloud

• Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Git, Docker, Kubernetes
• Cloud Platforms (Azure/AWS)

Agile & Leadership

• SAFe Agile Framework experience
• Test Strategy & Quality Governance
• Stakeholder Management
• Coaching and Mentoring Teams
• Vendor and Offshore Team Leadership

Key Success Metrics

• Automation Coverage %
• Regression Effort Reduction %
• Release Cycle Time Improvement
• Defect Leakage Reduction
• Production Incident Reduction
• CI/CD Quality Gate Compliance %
• Performance SLA Adherence %
• Automated Test Execution Success Rate
• Cost Savings Through Automation
• Team Quality Maturity Improvement Index

Preferred Experience

• 10+ years in Quality Engineering, Automation, and Performance Testing.
• Experience leading large-scale digital transformation programs.
• Proven track record in driving automation, optimization, and quality excellence at enterprise scale.
• Experience implementing AI/GenAI-assisted testing solutions.