Director Quality Engineering

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 6000000 - Rs 8000000 (ie INR 60 - 80 LPA)

Min Experience: 15+ years
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced and strategic Director of Quality Engineering to lead our organization's quality engineering and software quality assurance functions. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in building and scaling quality engineering practices, driving test automation, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, reliable, and scalable software products.

This role requires a strong technology leader who can define the quality engineering vision, establish robust testing strategies, and foster a culture of quality across engineering, product, and business teams. The candidate should possess deep expertise in software quality assurance, modern testing methodologies, automation frameworks, and continuous quality improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Quality Engineering Strategy: Define and execute the organization's overall quality engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, product roadmaps, and engineering priorities.
• Leadership & Team Management: Lead, mentor, and develop large, high-performing quality engineering teams, including QA managers, automation engineers, and testing specialists.
• Software Quality Assurance: Establish comprehensive software quality assurance processes, standards, and best practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Test Automation: Drive the adoption of scalable test automation frameworks and tools to improve test coverage, execution efficiency, and release confidence.
• Testing Excellence: Oversee functional, integration, regression, performance, scalability, security, and end-to-end testing initiatives.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to optimize testing processes, reduce defect leakage, improve productivity, and accelerate software delivery.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, product management, DevOps, and business stakeholders to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle.
• Quality Metrics & Governance: Define and monitor key quality metrics, including defect density, test coverage, automation effectiveness, production defects, and release readiness.
• Continuous Integration & Delivery: Integrate quality engineering practices into CI/CD pipelines and promote continuous testing and shift-left quality approaches.
• Risk & Defect Management: Establish effective defect prevention, root-cause analysis, risk assessment, and resolution mechanisms.
• Technology Evaluation: Identify and implement modern testing technologies, tools, and methodologies to enhance quality engineering capabilities.

Must-Have Skills

• Extensive experience in Quality Engineering and Software Quality Assurance.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, SDLC, STLC, and modern testing practices.
• Proven expertise in defining enterprise-wide QA strategies and quality engineering frameworks.
• Experience leading large, distributed quality engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of test automation, functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, and performance testing.
• Ability to establish quality standards, governance frameworks, and measurable engineering KPIs.
• Excellent stakeholder management, strategic thinking, problem-solving, and leadership capabilities.

Experience & Qualifications

• 15–22 years of overall experience in software engineering, quality engineering, and software quality assurance.
• Significant experience in senior leadership roles managing enterprise-level QA and quality engineering functions.
• Proven track record of driving quality transformation and delivering measurable improvements in software reliability and release efficiency.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.