Quality Assurance Manager

Snc-Lavalin; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive life insurance coverage

Premium medical insurance for you and/

Generous annual leave balance

Flexible and hybrid work solutions

Remote work opportunities outside of a

Discretionary bonus program

Relocation assistance

Employee Wellbeing Program

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis in Bengaluru, India, seeks a Quality Assurance Manager to lead the QA function across Product Delivery. You will define the QA strategy, oversee testing roadmaps, and drive continuous improvement to ensure high standards throughout the SDLC.

The role combines people leadership, governance, and strategic planning to enable delivery of high-quality digital products, with a focus on test automation, shift-left practices, and strong collaboration with product and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Quality Assurance teams in agile product or software delivery environments.
• Proven track record of managing QA functions, testing strategies, and delivery roadmaps.
• Experience driving quality transformation, automation adoption, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, Agile methodologies, and DevOps practices.
• Leadership and people management.
• Quality Assurance strategy and governance.
• Roadmap planning and portfolio management.
• Test automation frameworks and tooling.
• Stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Continuous improvement and process optimisation.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the Quality Assurance strategy, standards, and operating model.
• Lead the implementation and optimisation of test automation frameworks and tooling.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve test efficiency, quality, and delivery velocity.
• Promote shift-left testing, DevOps, CI/CD, and quality engineering practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, tools, and ways of working.
• Drive adoption of modern testing approaches, automation frameworks, and quality engineering practices.
• Establish metrics and KPIs to measure quality, efficiency, and delivery outcomes.
• Own the QA roadmap and release readiness.

Skills

QA Leadership

QA Strategy

Automation Adoption

CI/CD

DevOps Practices

Stakeholder Engagement

Team Development

Quality Governance

Agile Methodologies

Job description

Job Description Overview Quality Assurance Manager will lead our Quality Assurance function across Product Delivery function. This role is responsible for defining and delivering the QA strategy, managing testing roadmaps, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring high standards of quality throughout the software development lifecycle. The role combines people leadership, delivery oversight, quality governance, and strategic planning to enable the successful delivery of high-quality digital products.

Your Role

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the Quality Assurance strategy, standards, and operating model.
• Lead the implementation and optimisation of test automation frameworks and tooling.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve test efficiency, quality, and delivery velocity.
• Promote shift-left testing, DevOps, CI/CD, and quality engineering practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, tools, and ways of working.
• Drive adoption of modern testing approaches, automation frameworks, and quality engineering practices.
• Establish metrics and KPIs to measure quality, efficiency, and delivery outcomes.

Delivery & Quality Governance Own the QA roadmap, ensuring alignment with product, engineering, and business priorities. Oversee testing activities across multiple products, platforms, and delivery teams. Ensure appropriate test coverage across functional, integration, performance, security, accessibility, and user acceptance testing. Manage risks, dependencies, defects, and quality issues throughout the delivery lifecycle. Provide leadership and assurance on release readiness and production quality. Lead accessibility testing activities, including automated, manual, and assistive technology testing.

Team Development

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of Quality Analysts providing direction, coaching and regular feedback to support their growth and career progression.
• Conduct performance reviews, objective setting, development planning and regular one-to-one meetings, ensuring team members are supported to achieve their goals.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive and high-performing design culture that encourages innovation, knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Support recruitment, onboarding and retention of QA talent, helping to build a diverse and capable design function.
• Create opportunities for Quality Analysts to develop new skills, take ownership of their work, and progress their careers through coaching, mentoring and stretch assignments.

About You Qualifications & Skills

• Experience leading Quality Assurance teams in agile product or software delivery environments.
• Proven track record of managing QA functions, testing strategies, and delivery roadmaps.
• Experience driving quality transformation, automation adoption, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, Agile methodologies, and DevOps practices.
• Leadership and people management.
• Quality Assurance strategy and governance.
• Roadmap planning and portfolio management.
• Test automation frameworks and tooling.
• Stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Continuous improvement and process optimisation.

Rewards & Benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Relocation assistance.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more.

Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular At AtkinsRéalis

We seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at Atkinsrealis or follow us on LinkedIn.