Quality Engineering Manager

Overview

Lead and grow a distributed team of SDETs responsible for quality engineering across critical payment and settlement platforms.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of SDETs
• Create an environment focused on accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence
• Support career development, coaching, performance management, and hiring activities
• Define and evolve testing strategies, automation frameworks, and quality practices
• Partner with Engineering and Product teams to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle
• Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, automation effectiveness, reliability, and release confidence
• Review technical approaches and provide guidance on automation, testing architecture, and quality risks
• Lead quality initiatives across multiple concurrent projects and workstreams
• Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Operations, Security, and Platform teams, influencing decisions and driving alignment
• Balance competing priorities and make effective decisions in dynamic, fast-changing environments
• Communicate risks, trade-offs, and delivery expectations clearly to stakeholders
• Establish and track quality metrics, test effectiveness, automation coverage, and delivery performance
• Champion process improvements and engineering best practices
• Drive adoption of modern testing approaches, including AI-assisted quality engineering and automation

What you'll need

• 10+ years of experience in Software Testing / Quality Engineering
• 3+ years of people management experience leading SDET or QA teams
• Proven experience leading quality engineering teams within product-based organizations
• Strong technical background in test automation, quality engineering, and engineering best practices
• Hands-on experience with Java and automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or similar
• Experience testing distributed systems and microservices-based applications
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and drive outcomes

Nice to have

• Experience with CI/CD, cloud technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS
• FinTech, Payments, Banking, or Settlement domain experience

Details

• Location: Mumbai