Head of Quality Engineering
Comviva
- Location
- Gurugram, Haryana, India
- Job type
- Full-time
Required skills
- penetration testing
- Agile
- API
- automated testing
- backend
- compliance
- cross-functional
- Cypress
- DevOps
- Docker
- end-to-end
- frontend
- Kubernetes
- microservices
- multi-tenant
- Postgres
- production defects
- regression
- Root Cause Analysis
- SaaS
- Selenium
- test automation
- SDLC
About the role
Comviva
Website:
comviva.com
Job details:
Key Accountabilities
- Own end-to-end Quality Engineering strategy across all product lines, ensuring world-class quality standards for cloud-native SaaS platforms.
- Define and implement a comprehensive quality strategy covering:
- Manual testing
- Test automation
- Performance testing
- Security testing
- API testing
- Data validation testing
- Regression and release testing
- Build and lead high-performing QA teams including manual testers, automation engineers, performance engineers, and security testing specialists.
- Establish scalable QA processes, frameworks, and governance aligned with Agile and DevOps practices.
- Drive shift-left testing practices, embedding quality early in the SDLC.
- Define test strategy for microservices, APIs, frontend applications, and data pipelines.
- Ensure high test coverage through automation across UI, API, and backend layers.
- Implement performance and load testing strategies to validate scalability and resilience of SaaS multi-tenant systems.
- Oversee security testing practices including vulnerability assessment, penetration testing coordination, and secure SDLC integration.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, DevOps, and Security teams to ensure quality gates are integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Establish quality metrics and dashboards including:
- Defect density
- Escaped defects
- Automation coverage
- Test effectiveness
- Release readiness indicators
- Own release quality sign-off processes and enforce quality gates before production deployment.
- Drive root cause analysis for production defects and implement preventive quality measures.
- Standardize testing tools, frameworks, and best practices across all products.
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives to reduce defect leakage and improve release confidence.
- Build a culture of quality ownership across engineering teams (Quality is everyone’s responsibility).
- Stay updated on modern QA practices, AI-driven testing, test automation frameworks, and emerging quality engineering trends.
Mandatory Skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Minimum 15+ years of experience in software testing and quality engineering.
- At least 5+ years in senior QA leadership roles (Head / Director / Senior Manager).
- Proven experience leading QA for SaaS / cloud-native product organizations.
- Strong expertise in:
- Manual and automated testing methodologies
- API testing and microservices testing
- Performance and load testing
- Security testing practices
- Hands-on experience with automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar).
- Strong understanding of CI/CD integration for automated testing.
- Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling, or similar).
- Knowledge of security testing tools and practices (OWASP principles, vulnerability scanning tools).
- Experience testing distributed systems, microservices, and containerized environments.
- Strong understanding of databases (Postgres, MongoDB, etc.) and data validation testing.
- Proven ability to define and track quality KPIs and governance metrics.
- Strong leadership skills with experience building and scaling QA teams.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Desirable Skills
- Experience in testing MERN stack-based applications.
- Familiarity with AWS-based cloud deployments and cloud-native testing strategies.
- Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Exposure to AI-driven testing tools and intelligent automation platforms.
- Knowledge of test data management and synthetic data generation strategies.
- Experience in multi-tenant SaaS performance validation.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and compliance standards (SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR).
- Experience implementing Quality Engineering transformation programs.
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