Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering Senior (PL)

Charles Schwab India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EPF & Gratuity

Paid time off

Education assistance

Medical insurance

Health check-ups

Childcare reimbursement

Transport & meals

Job summary

Schwab India seeks a strategic Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead Quality Assurance and Test Engineering across complex, distributed programs. This leadership role drives end-to-end test programs, automation strategy, and AI-enabled optimization to elevate release confidence and engineering productivity.

You will partner across Engineering, Product, Architecture, Operations, and Business to shift quality earlier in the SDLC and build a modern QA practice in a growth environment.

Qualifications

• 12–15 years in Software Quality Assurance, Test Engineering, SDET, or Software Engineering roles.
• 3+ years of people leadership managing QA, SDET, automation, or test engineering teams.
• Experience leading end-to-end test programs across multiple applications and teams.
• Strong background in automation strategy, CI/CD integration, and scalable automated test suites.
• Experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO, Karate, REST Assured, Postman, Cucumber, Java/JavaScript/TypeScript/Python.
• Experience applying AI, ML, or intelligent automation to improve QA design, execution, and productivity.
• Ability to communicate with senior leaders, product owners, engineers, architects, and operations teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop QA engineers, SDETs, test automation engineers, and test leads.
• Define and execute QA and Test Engineering strategy across products and platforms.
• Own program-level end-to-end test planning and execution including risk-based testing and release readiness.
• Build and scale automation across UI, API, service, database, and integration tests.
• Drive AI-enabled test engineering optimization and intelligent tooling.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, Operations, and Business stakeholders to shift quality left.
• Establish QA governance, dashboards, metrics, and reporting practices.
• Oversee non-production environments, test data strategy, and service virtualization.
• Champion continuous improvement and manage communication and RCA.

Job description

Schwab Description

At Charles Schwab, our purpose is simple: we championclient’sgoals with passion and integrity. Guided by honesty, mutualrespectand a commitment to doingwhat’sright, we bring innovation, education, and service together to help shape financial futures. Our people are the foundation of our success - they approach their work with curiosity and collaboration, coming together to create solutions that make a meaningful impact for clients and communities. As we expand into India, we are bringing this same culture of inclusion, learning, and opportunity to new talent. Joining us means becoming part of a global team where your work matters and your future can take shape.

Schwab India Description

Our Hyderabad location is central to Schwab’s growth, bringing together talented people and technology to drive innovation,scaleand efficiency. Here, you will work alongside teams who create solutions that support millions of clients every day. The work you do is more than daily operations -it’sa chance to experiment, learn, and build within avalues-driven, supportive environment. This is a unique opportunity to be part of our early growth phase and shape something new, backed by the stability and strength of a Fortune 500 company. Your impact begins on day one, and your contributions will help define our future in the region.

Your opportunity

Schwab Description

At Charles Schwab, our purpose is simple: we championclient’sgoals with passion and integrity. Guided by honesty, mutualrespectand a commitment to doingwhat’sright, we bring innovation, education, and service together to help shape financial futures. Our people are the foundation of our success - they approach their work with curiosity and collaboration, coming together to create solutions that make a meaningful impact for clients and communities. As we expand into India, we are bringing this same culture of inclusion, learning, and opportunity to new talent. Joining us means becoming part of a global team where your work matters and your future can take shape.

Schwab India Description

Our Hyderabad location is central to Schwab’s growth, bringing together talented people and technology to drive innovation,scaleand efficiency. Here, you will work alongside teams who create solutions that support millions of clients every day. The work you do is more than daily operations -it’sa chance to experiment, learn, and build within avalues-driven, supportive environment. This is a unique opportunity to be part of our early growth phase and shape something new, backed by the stability and strength of a Fortune 500 company. Your impact begins on day one, and your contributions will help define our future in the region.

Role Description

We are seeking a strategic Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead Quality Assurance and Test Engineering practices across complex, distributed technology programs. This people leader will build and scale a modern QA practice that strengthens release confidence, improves engineering productivity, and embeds quality throughout the SDLC. The ideal candidate brings deep experience managing end-to-end test programs, automation strategy, non-production environment readiness, and AI-driven optimization in test engineering.

What you have

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop QA engineers, SDETs, test automation engineers, and test leads.
• Define and execute QA and Test Engineering strategy across products, platforms, and value streams.
• Own program-level end-to-end test planning and execution, including scope, criteria, risk-based testing, dependency management, defect triage, release readiness, and executive reporting.
• Build and scale automation across UI, API, service, database, integration, regression, smoke, and business-critical workflows.
• Drive AI-enabled test engineering optimization, including AI-assisted test generation, intelligent prioritization, flaky test detection, failure clustering, self-healing automation, test data generation, and predictive quality insights.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, Operations, and Business stakeholders to shift quality earlier in the SDLC.
• Establish QA governance, operating rhythms, dashboards, metrics, and reporting practices.
• Oversee non-production environment readiness, test data strategy, service virtualization, and dependency management.
• Champion continuous improvement and manage communication, escalation, RCA, and corrective action planning.

Required Qualifications

• 12 - 15 years in Software Quality Assurance, Test Engineering, SDET, or Software Engineering roles supporting enterprise applications.
• 3 + years ofpeopleleadership managing QA, SDET, automation, or test engineering teams.
• Experience leading end-to-end test programs across multiple applications, platforms, integration partners, and distributed teams.
• Strong background in automation strategy, framework design, CI/CD integration, and scalable automated test suites.
• Experience with tools/languages such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress,WebdriverIO, Karate, REST Assured, Postman, Cucumber BDD, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or similar.
• Experience applying AI, machine learning, or intelligent automation concepts to improve test design, execution, defect analysis, maintenance, coverage, and productivity.
• Experience defining QA roadmaps, quality metrics, governance models, maturity plans, and improvement initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum,SAFe, DevOps, CI/CD, shift-left testing, risk-based testing, service virtualization, test data management, and release readiness.
• Ability to communicate clearly with senior leaders, product owners, engineers, architects, operations teams, and business stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or maturing a QA Center of Excellence, test engineering community of practice, or enterprise quality engineering operating model.
• Experience with AI-assisted QA tooling such as test generation, self-healing automation, visual AI testing, predictive defect analytics, or failure analysis.
• Experience leading quality engineering transformation in regulated, financial services, payments, banking, trading, or high-reliability technology environments.
• Experience with cloud-based test execution, containerized test environments, observability, service virtualization, synthetic test data, and performance engineering.
• Ability to translate technical quality initiatives into measurable business outcomes.
• Master’s degree or relevant certifications in software engineering, quality engineering, Agile delivery, cloud, DevOps, or AI-enabled engineering practices.

What’s in it for you

At Schwab India, you’re empowered to shape your future. We support your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture rooted in trust and collaboration – so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our benefits are designed to care for your wellbeing, your family, and your long-term financial security.

Our Base Benefits, Wellbeing, And Total Rewards Include

• Competitive compensation and retirement programs including Employee Provident Fund (EPF), Gratuity, and optional National Pension System (NPS) contributions
• Robust Paid Time Off, including annual/privilege leave, sick and casual leave, public holidays, maternity/paternity leave, and more
• Education assistance for continued learning to help you grow
• Comprehensive medical insurance with Outpatient Department (OPD) services, including vaccination, pharmacy, dental, and vision coverage
• Annual reimbursement for health check-ups and mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Childcare (creche) reimbursement for eligible employees
• Transportation and meal benefits that support your day-to-day work
• Group life, personal accident, and critical illness insurance