QA Manager

Location: Chennai, India

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly technical QA Engineering Manager to lead the quality assurance and quality engineering function across multiple enterprise platforms and delivery teams. The role requires a strong balance of leadership and hands-on technical expertise in automation, API testing, performance engineering, and DevOps-driven quality practices. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience building scalable QA frameworks, integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines, and driving automation-first testing strategies in cloud-based environments. The QA Manager will work closely with engineering, product, and DevOps teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle and that high-quality, reliable software is delivered to customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the overall QA strategy, aligning it with business and product goals.

• Lead and mentor QA managers, leads, and engineers across multiple teams and locations.

• Oversee the planning, execution, and reporting of manual and automated testing efforts.

• Establish and monitor quality metrics, KPIs, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, and DevOps teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.

• Evaluate and implement new tools, technologies, and frameworks to enhance testing efficiency and coverage.

• Ensure compliance with industry standards, security, and regulatory requirements.

• Manage budgets, resource planning, and vendor relationships related to QA.

• Drive shift-left and shift-right testing practices across the SDLC.

• Establish automation-first testing strategies covering UI, API, integration, and regression testing.

• Implement quality gates within CI/CD pipelines to ensure release readiness.

• Lead API testing, microservices testing, and integration validation for distributed systems.

• Introduce modern testing practices including test observability, test data management, and continuous testing.

• Evaluate and implement emerging testing tools including AI-assisted testing solutions.

• Ensure quality validation for cloud-native applications deployed on platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Lead performance and reliability testing initiatives across enterprise systems.

About Us

We help customers navigate the complex transition to a decarbonized and more sustainable energy future. We do this by assuring that energy systems work safely and effectively, using solutions that are increasingly digital. We also help industries and governments to navigate the many complex, interrelated transitions taking place globally and regionally, in the energy industry.We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence. As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.