Engineering Manager - QA & SRE (Noida)

Pine Labs; Dadri; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Pine Labs is seeking an Engineering Manager QA & SRE to lead the automation-first quality engineering strategy. You will design scalable automation frameworks, drive observability practices, and push for reliability across web, mobile, API, and microservices ecosystems.

The role requires mentoring teams, defining KPIs, and partnering with product and engineering to提升 platform stability. You will champion shift-left/right testing, deploy AI-powered testing where applicable, and govern SLAs, SLOs,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Quality Engineering, Production Reliability, SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• 5+ years leading QA, Automation, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams.
• Proven experience building large-scale automation frameworks and enterprise observability solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive automation strategy with >90% automation coverage across journeys.
• Design scalable test automation frameworks for Web, Mobile, API, and Microservices.
• Lead adoption of modern automation tools (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Rest Assured, Karate, JMeter, k6).
• Integrate automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines for faster releases.
• Define and track automation KPIs and reliability metrics to improve release readiness.

Skills

Automation leadership

Quality engineering

Team leadership

AI/ML for testing

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

Job description

Role Purpose

We are looking for Engineering Manager QA and SRE.

Automation Excellence (Must Have)

• Drive an Automation-First Quality Engineering strategy with >90% automation coverage across critical business journeys.
• Design and govern scalable test automation frameworks for Web, Mobile, API, Microservices, Performance, and Integration testing.
• Lead adoption of modern automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Rest Assured, Karate, JMeter, and k6.
• Integrate automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and faster releases.
• Define and track automation KPIs including automation coverage, execution efficiency, defect leakage, and release readiness.
• Leverage AI-powered testing, self-healing automation, predictive quality analytics, and intelligent test selection to improve engineering productivity.
• Drive shift-left and shift-right testing practices across the development lifecycle.

Observability & Reliability Engineering (Must Have)

• Establish enterprise-wide Observability Strategy covering Metrics, Logs, Traces, Events, and User Experience Monitoring.
• Build and maintain comprehensive monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and reliability frameworks for critical applications.
• Define and implement SLA, SLI, SLO, Error Budgets, Reliability KPIs, and Service Health metrics.
• Lead implementation of observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and AppDynamics.
• Drive proactive anomaly detection, predictive alerting, capacity management, and performance engineering initiatives.
• Implement end-to-end transaction monitoring, synthetic monitoring, business KPI monitoring, and customer experience monitoring.
• Reduce MTTD, MTTR, incident volume, and customer-impacting production issues through observability-driven engineering.

Required Experience

• 10+ years in Quality Engineering, Production Reliability, SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• 5+ years leading QA, Automation, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams.
• Proven experience building large-scale automation frameworks and enterprise observability solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Monitoring, and Reliability Engineering.
• Strong experience managing high-volume transaction systems, fintech, payments, banking e-commerce, or highly available digital platforms.

Preferred Candidate Profile

We are looking for a leader who can:

• Build a culture of Quality Engineering, Automation, Reliability, and Operational Excellence.
• Drive engineering transformation through automation and observability.
• Use AI/ML and predictive analytics to prevent incidents rather than react to them.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Operations, and Business teams to improve customer experience and platform stability.
• Lead large-scale digital platforms with 99.9%+ availability targets and measurable reliability outcomes.

This would make the role more suitable for a Engineering Manager QA & SRE position focused on up-to-date Quality Engineering, Automation, Observability, and Reliability practices.

Location

Noida

Work arrangement

This is 5 days work from office role (No remote or hybrid)

Things you should be comfortable with

1. Working from office : 5 days a week
2. Pushing the boundaries: Have a big idea See something that you feel we should do but havent done We will hustle hard to make it happen. We encourage out of the box thinking, and if you bring that with you, we will make sure you get a bag that fits all the energy you bring along.

What we value in our people:

1. You take the shot: You decide fast and deliver right.
2. You are the CEO of what you do : You show ownership and make things happen.
3. You sing your work like an artist: You seek to learn and take pride in the work you do.