Key Accountabilities:

• Partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to align testing priorities with business objectives.

• Establish a consistent testing framework, standards, and governance across all regions.

• Drive cross-team collaboration, knowledge sharing, and best practices globally.

• Mentor and develop testing leads and managers to build strong local leadership capability.

• Define and implement an automation-first strategy across functional, regression, and integration testing.

• Increase automation coverage, reduce manual regression effort, and drive faster release cycles.

• Standardize automation frameworks, tools, and processes across global teams.

• Monitor adoption and continuously improve automation maturity and effectiveness

• Ensure robust functional testing practices, including risk-based testing, test design quality, and traceability.

• Establish KPIs to monitor defect leakage, test coverage, and overall quality metrics

• Ensure applications meet defined SLAs, scalability, reliability, and performance benchmarks

• Drive integration of test automation into CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments.

• Promote Infrastructure-as-Code, environment provisioning automation, and test data automation.

• Enable continuous testing to support faster, higher-quality releases.

Experience, Technical and Soft Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in managerial roles

• Proven experience managing large, distributed engineering teams and complex enterprise platforms

• Extensive understanding of software development and the SDLC.

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure services such as App Services, Azure SQL, Data Factory, Functions, AKS, Azure DevOps, etc

• Solid background in Agile delivery methodologies and DevOps practices, preferably with scrum master certification

• Experience managing development teams from both a project and a support perspective.

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills  

• Ability to build high-performing, motivated, and collaborative teams  

• Experience managing external service providers
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• Experience in managing globally distributed teams.
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• Highly organized and a good multi-tasker
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• Good analytical and problem-solving skills

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