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Job Description: Quality Engineering Transformation Leader
The Quality Engineering (QE) Technical & Transformational Leader is a pivotal senior responsible for driving QE modernization, technical excellence, and large-scale transformation across Client’s multi-platform, multi-portfolio environment.
This leader is expected to operate at CXO-facing levels, influence senior stakeholders, and navigate Client’s complex environment with confidence, data-backed recommendations, and strong communication.
This role combines deep technical authority, strategic consulting, transformation ownership, and organizational leadership, ensuring QE becomes a value-generating, data-driven engineering discipline for Clients.
This leader will be crucial in:
- Turning QE into a value-producing function, not just execution.
- Bringing engineering discipline, data-first thinking, and performance culture.
- Steering conversations with Client leadership with technical depth and strategic authority.
- Enabling Wipro to strengthen and stabilize the long-term partnership with Client through excellence and innovation.
Key Responsibilities
Lead QE Transformations
- Architect and drive end-to-end QE & Testing transformation aligned to Client’s engineering, digital, and modernization roadmap.
- Define and own QE operational model evolution, embedding continuous testing, shift-left, shift-right, DevOps alignment, automation-first culture, and AI/GenAI adoption.
- Identify and drive transformation levers such as automation scaling, test data modernization, environment optimization, and productivity uplift.
- Partner with domain leaders to introduce modern testing practices (in-sprint automation, service virtualization, early performance testing, observability, etc.).
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Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence
Bring exceptionally deep technical expertise across:
- Automation frameworks (UI, API, Mobile, Performance, CI/CD)
- Architecture-level understanding of QE tooling and engineering ecosystems
- Test Data Management, Cloud testing, Environment strategy
- GenAI-powered test design, data creation, failure analysis
- Build and govern standard frameworks, reusable assets, accelerators, and next-gen engineering solutions.
- Evaluate, propose, and institutionalize new tooling, frameworks, and engineering approaches through innovation, benchmarking, and continuous improvement.
Strong Executive Communication & Stakeholder Management
- Present complex technical concepts clearly to Client’s senior leadership, including CIO, CTO, QE Heads, and Portfolio Directors.
- Navigate challenging conversations with clarity, data, confidence, and strategic storytelling, especially in performance, productivity, and transformation reviews.
- Ability to “throw weight” effectively in Client’s stakeholder landscape—challenge decisions, influence strategy, and drive alignment.
Data-Driven Delivery, Productivity & Value Tracking
- Establish KPIs, productivity metrics, and value dashboards for QE across programs.
- Lead analytics-driven decision-making on Productivity improvement, Defect trends, Cost of quality, Test efficiency & cycle time, Automation ROI.
- Ensure transparency in reporting to Client’s leadership with clear action plans.
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Leadership of Large, Multi-Disciplinary QE Teams
- Managed team size of 300+ in large programs in multi-year engagements.
- Lead distributed teams across functional, automation, performance, environmental, TDM, release engineering, and AI-QE capabilities.
- Mentor QE leaders, architects, and managers to uplift skills, competency, and engineering maturity.
- Align teams to outcome-driven delivery, not just “lights-on” operations.
Drive AI/GenAI Adoption in QE
- Evaluate and integrate Client’s toolchain, aligning QE innovation with Client’s AI architecture direction.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Expertise (Exceptional Level)
- 20–25+ years in QE engineering, transformation, and automation leadership.
- Mastery of:
- Playwright, Appium, Selenium, Cypress, Java
- API Automation (REST Assured, Karate, Postman)
- Performance (JMeter, LoadRunner)
- Cloud-native testing (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Test orchestration, CI/CD pipelines
- TDM, environment strategy, observability tools
Leadership & Behavioral
- Outstanding communication, influence, and executive presence.
- Proven ability to operate in demanding, politically dynamic client environments (such as Client).
- Strong analytical and...
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