Manager, Quality Engineering

Allegis Group Services, Inc.; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,200,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Allegis Group Services, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Quality Engineering Lead for our Cloud Platform in Bangalore. You will define and drive the quality strategy across platform and product teams, mentor QE engineers, and ensure robust test automation and release governance.

You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, and Operations to raise quality standards and implement metrics, gates, and data-driven improvements on a large-scale SaaS cloud platform.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in Quality Engineering or related fields.
• Experience defining QE strategy across multiple teams.
• Hands-on API and test automation with Playwright or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the QE strategy, standards, and test policies across teams.
• Establish common test automation frameworks, harnesses, tooling, and test data.
• Drive API, integration, performance, reliability, and cross-product testing.
• Define quality metrics, dashboards, gates, and release-readiness criteria.
• Own release management and governance across teams.
• Use incidents and metrics to continuously improve quality.
• Partner with Eng, Product, Security, and Ops to propagate quality.

Skills

API testing

Test automation

Quality metrics

Leadership

SDET experience

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Tools

Playwright

JMeter

Gatling

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Dynatrace

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Were hiring a Manager, Quality Engineering – Cloud Platform!

We’re looking for an experienced Quality Engineering Lead – Cloud Platform to define and drive the quality engineering strategy for a large-scale cloud platform.

Location: Bangalore - Hybrid – only 2 weeks per quarter in the office

What You’ll Do

• Define and drive the Quality Engineering strategy, standards, and test policies across platform and product teams.
• Establish common test automation frameworks, harnesses, tooling, and test data capabilities.
• Drive API, integration, compatibility, performance, reliability, and cross-product testing.
• Define quality metrics, dashboards, environment promotion gates, and release-readiness criteria.
• Own release management and governance, including risks, dependencies, and exceptions across teams.
• Use production incidents, customer issues, metrics, and retrospectives to continuously improve quality.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and Operations to drive consistent quality practices.

What We’re Looking For

• 12+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, SDET, Software Engineering, Test Automation, or related disciplines.
• Proven experience defining and driving QE strategy across multiple engineering teams/products.
• Strong hands-on experience with API and test automation, using Playwright or equivalent frameworks.
• Experience with performance, scalability, and reliability testing using JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent tools.
• Strong understanding of AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, or Dynatrace.
• Strong experience with quality metrics, automation frameworks, release-readiness criteria, quality gates, and release processes.

Good to Have

• Experience with large-scale, multi-tenant SaaS platforms on AWS.
• Experience with resilience testing / chaos engineering for distributed systems.
• Experience leading complex releases across multiple products and engineering teams.
• Experience leading or mentoring Quality Engineers and SDETs.
• Exposure to regulated or compliance-sensitive environments.