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What You'll Do
The People Digital Product Portfolio is the largest and most dynamic product portfolio within BCG’s Digital Products Organization. We enable global technology for BCG’s People Function, including Recruiting; Talent Management (Staffing, Mobility & Career Development); L&D; and Core HR (including Workday, Compensation and Benefits).
We are seeking a Global Quality Engineer Manager to lead quality engineering execution for our Vendor Management System (VMS) products. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on ensuring the quality, reliability, and scalability of enterprise SaaS applications through effective manual and automated testing.
You will:
Lead and mentor quality engineers across manual and automated testing, providing technical guidance, coaching, and quality oversight.
Develop and execute test strategies for the VMS product/platform, aligned with established quality engineering standards.
Remain hands-on with test automation, contributing to framework development, implementation, and code reviews.
Drive automation initiatives to improve test coverage, efficiency, reliability, and release confidence.
Ensure comprehensive testing of VMS workflows, business rules, APIs, integrations, databases, and backend services.
Partner with product owners, business analysts, and engineers to translate requirements into effective test scenarios, including negative, boundary, integration, and edge cases.
Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and enable continuous testing.
Lead defect triage and root cause analysis for complex or recurring issues and work with engineering teams on preventive actions.
Track and report quality metrics, including defect trends, test coverage, automation coverage, and defect leakage, to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
Provide quality assessments and recommendations to support release readiness and release decisions.
Recommend and adopt appropriate testing tools and technologies to improve quality engineering effectiveness.
Drive adoption of established QA practices and foster a quality-first culture within the VMS team.
What You'll Bring
Required Experience:
8+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance / Quality Engineering , with expertise in both manual and automation testing.
Experience leading or technically guiding QA/Quality Engineering teams and mentoring engineers.
Strong hands-on experience developing and maintaining automated test suites and frameworks.
Experience testing SaaS-based enterprise products, preferably multi-tenant and cloud-native applications.
Experience testing workflow-driven enterprise platforms such as Vendor Management, Procurement, Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), HR, or similar business applications .
Experience across functional, integration, regression, API, UI, end-to-end, and data validation testing.
Experience working with APIs, databases, backend services, and enterprise system integrations.
Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
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