Senior Manager, Technology Management - Software Engineering

Fidelity; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Bangalore seeks a Senior Manager, Technology Management - Software Engineering to lead and mentor a QE organization across product areas. You will drive quality initiatives, foster automation and testing excellence, and align teams to strategic roadmaps while ensuring delivery of high-quality software.

You will coach engineers, influence backlogs, and advance QE standards globally, with hands-on testing and strong collaboration with product owners and delivery leaders to achieve

Qualifications

• Experience leading QE teams and coaching engineers to improve product quality.
• Hands-on testing across multiple layers and environments in complex software systems.
• Design and implement integrated test strategies and end-to-end testing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop QE teams, setting objectives and performance metrics.
• Define and drive the test strategy for multiple product areas.
• Collaborate with Product, COE, and Delivery Leaders to align on backlog and milestones.
• Own automation framework decisions and roadmap; ensure CI/CD integration.
• Perform defect management, test execution, and quality reporting across projects.

Skills

People leadership

Automation expertise

Agile/Jira

Quality strategy

Mentoring teams

Test metrics

Tools

Playwright

Rest-Assured

Selenium

Jenkins

Cucumber

TestNG

Java

Typescript

SQL

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Job Description:

Job Tittle : Senior Manager, Technology Management - Software Engineering

The Purpose of This Role

As the Senior Manager, Technology Management - Software Engineering, you blend deep Fidelity Health and Quality Engineering knowledge with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing associates. You are deeply committed to improving the value delivered to our customers. You will collaborate with other leaders to establish the standards for your chapter, influence the strategic decisions and build solutions. You will directly manage a team of chapter members who primarily work within autonomous teams across product areas but report directly to you. You are dedicated to helping them grow and develop and ensure alignment on the "how" of the work they perform. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge.

The Value You Deliver

• Seasoned technical people leader focused on leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams to accelerate and achieve increased skill proficiency
• Deep technical expertise with confirmed ability to drive technical solutions and automation frameworks/pipelines such as Playwright, Rest Assured, Selenium, Jenkins etc.
• Proactively partner with Product Area, Center of Excellence, and Delivery Team Leaders to:Influence strategic backlog and prioritization decisions related to your area of expertiseMeasure performance through established objectives and critical metrics and deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people resultsAlign associates across teams and product areas to ensure the best utilization of talent while also building learning opportunities and content to develop skillsSet and apply standards and ensure the work performed is aligned with established road mapsRemove impediments to delivering value
• Leadership in QE Initiatives (globally) in defining and implementing quality standards across key programs. Provide and oversee implementation of Integrated test Strategy / End 2 End testing solutions for their teams as well those within the same domain.
• Being able to advance the work of the Teams by engaging hands-on in testing execution, defect management and metrics reporting. Perform independent analysis of functional, regression and smoke test suits. Provide continuous improvement ideas for overall product quality improvement.
• Assists in determining and developing approaches to automation frameworks and tools.
• Participates in team project planning, collaborate with Product owners and project managers for overall quality responsibility
• Supports and performs all phases of testing leading to implementation.
• Works on multiple projects concurrently under moderate direction.
• Focus on driving stability of quality gates in non-prod test environments which helps to identify the application gaps in each environment, which eventually will help to build each environment 100% closer to production environment for all applications, ensuring consistency, stability, and efficiency across the software development lifecycle.
• Coach Quality Engineers/ team members to improve their performance, knowledge, and expertise.

Skills that are key to this role

• Design best engineering practices to test complex software applications.
• Provide and oversee implementation of Integrated test strategy for their teams.
• Perform independent analysis of functional, regression and smoke test suits.
• Provide continuous improvement ideas for overall product quality improvement.
• Lead a QE team with Functional ,automation engineers and SDETs.
• Leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams.
• Identifying and acquiring talent needs, and resource planning and talent allocation across large organizations.
• Deep Quality Engineering technical knowledge on automation framework, standards, and best practices, Industry trends and tools.
• Understand business and systems requirements and translate into QE strategy, Business Critical scenarios and Test plans consistently across large, business critical program.
• Measure and Report key QE metrics related to test coverage, % automation, DevOps/ CI Cd integration, Test data mgmt., automation test script quality.
• Bring the latest thinking to your role. Find opportunities to improve efficiency, new ideas and continuous improvements.
• Ensuring highest quality standards and Definition of Done is strictly adhered.

Required Technical skills

• Experience in Agile development methodology and Jira tool
• Experience in testing distributed applications at multiple layers of the technology stack
• Hand-on experience in Test Management lifecycle
• Strong experience in Test automation design, development and execution using various frameworks eg. Playwright, Rest-Assured, Cucumber, TestNG.
• Exposure to programming languages for test automation using Java, Typescript, database testing using SQL, and experience using github copilot for testing related use-cases.