Posted 11 July, 2026
QE Transformation Leader
Diverse Lynx
Karnataka
Full Time
Reference: 365_569689_26-01194
Job Title - QE Transformation Leader
Location –Bangalore
Experience- 20+ years
Job Description: Quality Engineering Transformation Leader
The Quality Engineering (QE) Technical & Transformational Leader is a pivotal senior responsible for driving QE modernization, technical excellence, and largescale transformation across Client's multiplatform, multiportfolio environment.
This leader is expected to operate at CXOfacing levels, influence senior stakeholders, and navigate Client's complex environment with confidence, databacked recommendations, and strong communication.
This role combines deep technical authority, strategic consulting, transformation ownership, and organizational leadership, ensuring QE becomes a valuegenerating, datadriven engineering discipline for Clients.
This leader will be crucial in:
- Turning QE into a valueproducing function, not just execution.
- Bringing engineering discipline, datafirst thinking, and performance culture.
- Steering conversations with Client leadership with technical depth and strategic authority.
- Enabling strengthen and stabilize the longterm partnership with Client through excellence and innovation.
Key Responsibilities
Lead QE Transformations
- Architect and drive endtoend QE & Testing transformation aligned to Client's engineering, digital, and modernization roadmap.
- Define and own QE operational model evolution, embedding continuous testing, shiftleft, shiftright, DevOps alignment, automationfirst culture, and AI/GenAI adoption.
- Identify and drive transformation levers such as automation scaling, test data modernization, environment optimization, and productivity uplift.
- Partner with domain leaders to introduce modern testing practices (insprint automation, service virtualization, early performance testing, observability, etc.).
Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence
Bring exceptionally deep technical expertise across:
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Automation frameworks (UI, API, Mobile, Performance, CI/CD)
- Architecturelevel understanding of QE tooling and engineering ecosystems
- Test Data Management, Cloud testing, Environment strategy
- GenAIpowered test design, data creation, failure analysis
- Build and govern standard frameworks, reusable assets, accelerators, and nextgen engineering solutions.
- Evaluate, propose, and institutionalize new tooling, frameworks, and engineering approaches through innovation, benchmarking, and continuous improvement.
Strong Executive Communication & Stakeholder Management
- Present complex technical concepts clearly to Client's senior leadership, including CIO, CTO, QE Heads and Portfolio Directors.
- Navigate challenging conversations with clarity, data, confidence, and strategic storytelling, especially in performance, productivity, and transformation reviews.
- Ability to "throw weight” effectively in Client's stakeholder landscape—challenge decisions, influence strategy, and drive alignment.
DataDriven Delivery, Productivity & Value Tracking
- Establish KPIs, productivity metrics, and value dashboards for QE across programs.
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Lead analyticsdriven decisionmaking on:
- Productivity improvement
- Defect trends
- Cost of quality
- Test efficiency & cycle time
- Automation ROI
- Ensure transparency in reporting to Client's leadership with clear action plans.
Leadership of Large, MultiDisciplinary QE Teams
- Lead distributed teams across functional, automation, performance, environmental, TDM, release engineering, and AIQE capabilities.
- Mentor QE leaders, architects, and managers to uplift skills, competency, and engineering maturity.
- Align teams to outcomedriven delivery, not just "lightson” operations.
Drive AI/GenAI Adoption in QE
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Implement GenAI levers such as:
- AIassisted script generation
- Automated test data creation
- Intelligent failure/rootcause analysis
- AIdriven regression optimization
- Evaluate and integrate Client's tool chain, aligning QE innovation with Client's AI architecture direction.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Expertise (Exceptional Level)
- We need very strong 20+ years' experience profile who have played Testing Head role with transformation experience
- 15–20+ years in QE engineering, transformation, and automation leadership.
- Bangalore location is first preference – share Bangalore profiles on priority
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Mastery of:
- Playwright, Appium, Selenium, Cypress, Java
- API Automation (REST Assured, Karate, Postman)
- Performance (JMeter, LoadRunner)
- Cloudnative testing (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Test orchestration, CI/CD pipelines
- TDM, environment strategy, observability tools
