Lead Engineer (Quality) – DTC Platform Engineering

Overview

Lead the quality engineering and regression automation strategy for the Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) technology landscape within the DTC Platform Engineering organisation, leading automation teams and embedding quality across web, mobile, commerce, integrations and platform services.

What you'll do

• Define and drive the Regression Testing, Test Automation, and Quality Engineering strategy across multiple products and engineering teams.
• Lead one or more automation teams, providing technical leadership, mentoring, and capability development.
• Own automation architecture, framework design, tooling decisions, and engineering standards for quality delivery.
• Establish and maintain scalable automation frameworks for Web, Mobile, API, Integration, and End-to-End testing.
• Drive shift-left quality practices and integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Ensure comprehensive regression coverage and continuously optimize test suites for reliability, maintainability, and execution efficiency.
• Define quality metrics, automation KPIs, release-readiness criteria, and engineering quality dashboards.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and Architecture teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Drive adoption of modern testing practices including API-first testing, service virtualization, test data management, and AI-assisted testing.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance automation coverage, reduce defect leakage, and improve release confidence.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, and Software Testing, including leadership of automation teams.
• Strong expertise in designing and implementing scalable automation frameworks and test architectures.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-wide regression testing and quality engineering initiatives.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Maestro or Appium.
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or a comparable language.
• Hands-on experience with API and integration test automation, including REST and GraphQL services.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices, test strategy, quality governance, and release management.
• Experience with performance testing, observability, production validation, and non-functional testing approaches.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-assisted testing, intelligent regression testing or LLM powered quality engineering solutions.
• Experience with cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-operating system test automation using BrowserStack, LambdaTest or equivalent testing platforms.
• Experience in eCommerce, retail, or consumer digital products.
• Experience validating experimentation platforms, feature flags, and A/B testing programs.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to influence engineering quality across multiple teams.

Details

• Location: Local Office Pune (Global Function).