Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
Advisory - Other
Management Level
Manager
Job Description & Summary
The Opportunity
Join our Acceleration Center India and help shape the future of business for our diverse client portfolio across geographies and jurisdictions. You’ll work at the heart of global teams across Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Business Services—solving real client challenges through connected collaboration. We’ll help you grow your skills so you can go further. With hands-on learning, cutting-edge tools and an inclusive culture, this is your opportunity to do inspiring work that makes a difference—every day.
We Are
A Quality Engineering practice that helps clients move from late-stage testing to continuous quality, efficiency, and resilience. We embed with product, engineering, and architecture teams, apply modern automation and AI-enabled testing, and take quality work from experiment into operational delivery at enterprise scale.
You Are
A hands-on SDET and quality leader with 12+ years in test automation and software quality engineering. You write and review automation, set and execute the quality strategy for your program, and coach a team while remaining technically engaged. You are comfortable in global, collaborative delivery environments and you care about embedding quality across the full software development lifecycle — not only at the end of a sprint.
The Work
You will lead quality for complex application delivery: partnering with product, development, and architecture teams; defining and executing a modern test strategy; and applying AI-enabled approaches where they deliver measurable value. You will take accountability for your team's delivery outcomes, technical direction, and continuous improvement, acting as both a technical lead and a client-facing quality partner.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Strategy & Leadership
Define and lead end-to-end quality for your program, including early validation, risk-based testing, and continuous testing.
Own quality strategy, test planning, estimation, execution governance, defect management, and release-readiness assessment across your workstreams.
Establish the appropriate balance of unit, API, UI, integration, regression, and exploratory testing based on product risk and architecture.
SDET & Custom Application Quality
Lead the design, development, and enhancement of automation frameworks and validation components — not test cases alone.
Design, implement, and scale maintainable automation frameworks for web applications and services, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
Build UI, API, and where required mobile automation using Playwright and comparable tools such as Appium and REST Assured.
Partner with developers to improve unit-test coverage, testability, coding standards, and shift-left quality practices.
AI-Enabled Testing & Innovation
Use AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and agentic test automation solutions to accelerate test design, implementation, maintenance, and analysis responsibly.
Apply GenAI tooling (for example GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini) to improve test design, code generation, debugging, and root cause analysis.
Evaluate emerging AI-enabled testing tools through controlled proofs of concept and recommend adoption based on measurable value, security, accuracy, and maintainability.
DevSecOps & CI/CD Integration
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and define quality gates that provide fast, reliable feedback.
Embed automated testing into delivery pipelines such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps, covering version control and artifact management.
Cross-Platform Quality Deliver y
Lead testing across web, API, and mobile (iOS/Android) layers as the engagement requires.
Apply contract testing, test-data management, service virtualization or mocking, and observability practices.
Client Engagement & Advisory
Partner with client and business stakeholders to shape quality strategy and support…