Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities:
•    Providing strong leadership for the QA Squads to move to greater heights of value and maturity through project management, process management and QA practices.
•    Participate and be seen as a QA voice, in driving required activities and validation gates running up to a General Availability of products and services.
•    Develop & own functional and performance test strategies/plans and estimations for internal and external facing software application, services and servers.
•    Build tools and frameworks for automated testing to improve the QA productivity, predictability, reliability & transparency.
•    Responsible for the improvements in software engineering practices, process adoption and quality aspects of all the releases of products and services.
•    Responsible for building a strong knowledge base in product, domain and functional areas
•    Collaborate, communicate and influence product/business owners, developers and other stakeholders across the locations
•    Building a strong, highly motivated, vibrant, innovative and highly engaged QA teams comprising QAEs  & SDETs
•    Work in a fast paced agile development environment.

Requirements
Must have skills:
•    8+ years of product QA experience, with at least 2 years of experience as QEM or SDM
•    5+ years of experience as a SDET engineer in mobile application and services testing
•    Proficiency at SDLC/STLC fundamentals, software design/architecture process; test management, defect tracking tools & collaboration tools.
•    Strong competency in managing project, product quality, process, delivery and people
•    Expertise on QA & automation planning, test case identification, estimation, prioritisation, and release readiness decision making, root cause analysis..
•    Designs and codes software using programming languages such as Python, Java
•    Should have built automation frameworks using competencies like Appium, Selenium, RestAssured, Karate, JMeter, SQL, Git, Unix system, Analytics & monitoring tools. 
•    Knowledge and application of concepts such as continuous integration, continuous build, dev ops.
•    Shows creativity and initiative to improve test coverage, effectiveness, and QA productivity.
•    Good understanding and experience in working product development organisations focused on B2C, B2B, SAAS products & services. 
•    Strong people management skills including hiring, growing, and retaining highly talented team members with varied level of experiences and expertise
•    Excellent communication – oral, written, presentation and interpersonal skills
•    Ability to adapt to fast pace development and to take calculated risks by maintaining a high level of quality of products and services.
Good to have skills:
•    Working experience in the startup ecosystem
•    Working experience in storage, networking domain
•    Working experience in security and compliance testing
•    Managing the team from multiple geographies