Acentra Health | Job Opportunity | Senior Automation QA

Acentra; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Acentra Health seeks a Senior Quality Engineering Lead to define and drive quality strategy across platforms in a healthcare context. You will guide complex testing initiatives, architect automation ecosystems, and collaborate with security, compliance, and product teams to ensure top-grade quality for healthcare solutions.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled testing, regulated environments, and cross-team influence, with a mentorship component for senior engineers.

Qualifications

• 10-12 years in quality engineering or related leadership roles.
• Expert-level automation framework design across layers.
• Advanced AI/ML testing practices and autonomous testing.
• Experience leading quality strategy for complex, regulated systems.
• Strong knowledge of performance, security, and compliance testing.
• Ability to influence architecture and cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Define quality engineering strategy, standards, and objectives.
• Lead complex testing initiatives and large-scale releases.
• Architect automation ecosystems across UI, API, data, and services.
• Evaluate tools, autonomous testing, and AI-enabled productivity.
• Provide technical leadership during architecture and release governance.
• Influence quality standards and reusable frameworks.
• Mentor Senior Quality Engineers and contribute to communities.
• Partner with security, compliance, product, and clients to address healthcare quality.
• Use data and metrics to identify quality trends and ROI opportunities.

Skills

Quality leadership

Automation architecture

AI/ML testing

Performance testing

Security testing

Regulated systems

Stakeholder influence

Mentoring

Cross-team collab

Job description

• Define quality engineering strategy, standards, architecture patterns, and measurable quality objectives for a product, platform, or domain.
• Lead complex testing initiatives such as platform modernization, migration, interoperability, data transformation, large releases, or new product launches.
• Architect automation ecosystems across UI, API, data, integration, service, performance, security, accessibility, and compliance dimensions.
• Evaluate, select, and integrate quality tools, autonomous testing capabilities, self-healing automation, and AI-enabled productivity accelerators.
• Provide technical leadership during architecture reviews, design reviews, testability assessments, operational readiness, and release governance.
• Influence cross-team quality standards, documentation, reusable frameworks, shared services, and engineering best practices.
• Mentor Senior Quality Engineers and contribute to communities of practice, technical guilds, publications, demos, and knowledge assets.
• Partner with security, compliance, product, engineering, operations, and client-facing teams to ensure healthcare quality requirements are addressed early.
• Use data and metrics to identify systemic quality trends, investment priorities, ROI opportunities, and quality transformation outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• 10-12 years of experience in quality engineering, software engineering in test, automation architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
• Expert-level automation framework design and hands-on engineering experience across multiple application and service layers.
• Advanced understanding of AI/ML testing practices, autonomous testing concepts, self-healing automation, and responsible AI governance.
• Experience leading quality strategy for complex, regulated, mission-critical, or highly integrated systems.
• Strong knowledge of performance engineering, security testing, compliance-aware testing, and production quality signals.
• Proven ability to influence architecture, standards, technical direction, and cross-functional execution without direct authority.
• Strong business acumen, communication, technical writing, and stakeholder influence skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare technology experience across payer, provider, clinical, case management, claims, eligibility, interoperability, or government health systems.
• Experience contributing to shared quality platforms, engineering enablement, innovation labs, patents, publications, or conference presentations.
• Advanced certification in AI-QE, cloud, security, performance engineering, or test architecture.

AI and Automation Expectations

• Design autonomous testing ecosystems; apply agentic AI workflows and multi-LLM orchestration where approved; establish responsible AI testing patterns and governance guardrails.

Success Measures

• Quality strategy adopted across product/domain teams with measurable improvements.
• Reusable automation, platforms, or tools that improve speed, coverage, reliability, and compliance confidence.
• Successful delivery of complex healthcare initiatives with clear risk visibility and reduced production issues.
• Visible technical leadership through standards, mentoring, thought leadership, and cross-team influence.
• Responsible