QA Practice Lead (Senior Manager) Bangalore

Job Description QA Practice Lead (Senior Manager)

Role Overview

QA Practice Lead (Senior Manager) owns the strategic mandate of driving testing excellence across delivery programs building scalable QA capabilities governing quality outcomes enhancing automation reliability and positioning QA as a release-assurance led Center of Excellence. The role influences cross-functional engineering stakeholders mentors QA leaders governs practice-level metrics and ensures predictable and production-safe releases across programs.

Key Responsibilities

1. Practice & CoE Leadership
   

Define and govern enterprise QA standards test frameworks tooling strategy automation blueprints and quality gates.

Build reusable assets reliability layers test accelerators and maturity roadmap for the QA Center of Excellence.

Drive org-wide adoption of Shift-Left QA Continuous Testing CI/CD test stability and DevOps quality governance.

1. Delivery Assurance (Multi-Program)
   

Govern all QA streams: Functional Regression Integration API Mobile Performance Security Accessibility and Cloud-native testing across delivery.

Lead release-quality governance test traceability quality risk identification mitigation and production leakage prevention.

Ensure test environments test data automation stability and execution SLAs remain healthy across programs.

1. QA Talent Strategy & Leadership
   

Own QA hiring blueprint competency frameworks talent pipeline upskilling utilization and career growth charter.

Mentor and develop QA Tech Leads Seniors Automation Leads and QA Owners across delivery units.

Drive capacity forecasting resource allocation utilization balancing and skill scalability across engagements.

1. Stakeholder & Client Influence
   

Act as senior quality advisor to Delivery Engineering Product and Client stakeholders for effort sizing quality risk profiling estimation governance and automation ROI.

Ensure QA considerations are embedded into scope sizing architecture proposals and delivery commitments.

Publish quality insights via dashboards and stakeholder-facing reports with clarity and confidence.

1. Metrics Transparency & Governance
   

Define and govern org-level QA KPIs (Defects Coverage Automation Velocity Quality leakage).

Drive continuous process improvements through data-led governance tool optimization and QA reliability engineering initiatives.

What This Role Will NOT Do

Will not own single-project QA execution accountability.

Will not write or micromanage project-level test cases or daily test execution.

Will not replace engineering owners in defect accountability.

Will not operate only in downstream/manual-only QA cycles.

Required Qualifications

Bachelors Degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field

8 years QA experience including 3 years in QA leadership or practice ownership roles

Hands-on exposure to automation CI/CD API performance and security testing tools

Strong stakeholder influence communication governance-first QA mindset and talent leadership

Demonstrated ability to scale QA teams and govern release-safe quality outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

Cloud-native QA experience (AWS Azure GCP testing)

Scripting proficiency (Python/Java/JavaScript/TypeScript)

ISTQB Advanced/Expert Agile Testing Scrum Master Security/Performance specialisation