Lead Quality Engineer

Role Description The Quality Engineering Leader is responsible for driving the end-to-end software quality strategy across the global product engineering organization. This role provides: leadership to Quality Engineering Leads, SDETs, and Test Architects; establishes organization-wide quality standards; and ensures that all products meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, security, and customer experience.

Key Responsibilities Define and own the organization-wide Quality Engineering vision, strategy, and operating model. Establish quality standards, test architecture guidelines, quality gates, and best practices across all scrum teams. Lead and develop a high-performing organization of Leads, SDETs, and Test Architects. Own the strategy and roadmap for test automation frameworks, reusable libraries, test data management, and infrastructure. Oversee automation development for UI, API, microservices, .NET client components, and integration layers. Define and govern processes for performance, scalability, resilience, security, and load testing. Establish SLO/SLA standards and ensure systems meet performance baselines across all environments. Partner with engineering, product, and DevOps leadership to ensure release quality and readiness. Drive reduction of defect escape rates, flaky tests, pipeline failures, and rollback frequency. Evaluate and adopt new testing tools, automation technologies, and DevOps practices. Represent the Quality function in internal, external, and customer audits, executive discussions and planning forums. Ensure compliance with corporate policies related to information security and data privacy.

Ideal Candidate Educational Qualifications Bachelor/Master of Engineering or equivalent in Computer Engineering, IT, or related field

Experience 15+ years of experience in Quality Engineering / Software Test Automation. Hands-on leadership experience of multi-team QE organizations including QE Leads and Test Architects. Experience in automation for microservices, cloud-native applications, MERN stack components. Strong technical expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript automation frameworks. Deep understanding of AWS architectures, containerization, CI/CD platforms. Experience driving performance, security, and reliability testing strategies. Proven track record of improving engineering quality metrics. Hands-on experience in Agile/Scrum environments.

Desired Skills Experience with Atlassian suite of tools Experience with informatics applications or GxP compliant applications Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management