Staff Engineer II - Quality Engineering

Acentra Health; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Acentra Health is seeking a Staff Quality Engineer to define and drive its quality engineering strategy across product domains and healthcare platforms. This role requires deep technical leadership, architecture influence, and advanced AI-enabled QA practices.

You will lead complex testing initiatives, architect automation ecosystems across UI, API, data, and services, and mentor Senior Quality Engineers while collaborating with security, compliance, and product teams to ensure healthcare

Qualifications

• 10-12 years of experience in quality engineering or related leadership roles.
• Expert-level automation framework design across multiple layers.
• Advanced understanding of AI/ML testing practices and autonomous testing concepts.
• Experience leading quality strategy for complex, regulated systems.
• Strong knowledge of performance, security, and compliance testing.
• Ability to influence architecture and standards without direct authority.
• Strong communication, writing, and stakeholder influence skills.

Responsibilities

• Define quality engineering strategy, standards, and architecture patterns.
• Lead complex testing initiatives like platform modernization or large releases.
• Architect automation ecosystems across UI, API, data, and services.
• Evaluate and integrate AI-enabled productivity accelerators and autonomous testing tools.
• Provide technical leadership during architecture reviews and release governance.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to communities of practice.
• Partner with security, compliance, product, and operations teams to address quality requirements early.
• Use data to identify quality trends and ROI opportunities.

Skills

Automation architecture

AI/ML testing

Leadership

Quality strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical writing

Tools

Automation frameworks

AI-enabled testing tools

Security testing tools

Performance testing tools

Job description

Company Overview

Acentra Health is seeking a Staff Quality Engineer to define and drive quality engineering strategy for a product domain, platform, or major healthcare solution area. This role blends deep technical expertise, domain leadership, innovation, architecture influence, and advanced AI-enabled quality engineering practices.

Job Summary and Responsibilities

• Define quality engineering strategy, standards, architecture patterns, and measurable quality objectives for a product, platform, or domain.
• Lead complex testing initiatives such as platform modernization, migration, interoperability, data transformation, large releases, or new product launches.
• Architect automation ecosystems across UI, API, data, integration, service, performance, security, accessibility, and compliance dimensions.
• Evaluate, select, and integrate quality tools, autonomous testing capabilities, self-healing automation, and AI-enabled productivity accelerators.
• Provide technical leadership during architecture reviews, design reviews, testability assessments, operational readiness, and release governance.
• Influence cross-team quality standards, documentation, reusable frameworks, shared services, and engineering best practices.
• Mentor Senior Quality Engineers and contribute to communities of practice, technical guilds, publications, demos, and knowledge assets.
• Partner with security, compliance, product, engineering, operations, and client-facing teams to ensure healthcare quality requirements are addressed early.
• Use data and metrics to identify systemic quality trends, investment priorities, ROI opportunities, and quality transformation outcomes.

Job Requirements and Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 10-12 years of experience in quality engineering, software engineering in test, automation architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
• Expert-level automation framework design and hands‑on engineering experience across multiple application and service layers.
• Advanced understanding of AI/ML testing practices, autonomous testing concepts, self‑healing automation, and responsible AI governance.
• Experience leading quality strategy for complex, regulated, mission‑critical, or highly integrated systems.
• Strong knowledge of performance engineering, security testing, compliance‑aware testing, and production quality signals.
• Proven ability to influence architecture, standards, technical direction, and cross‑functional execution without direct authority.
• Strong business acumen, communication, technical writing, and stakeholder influence skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare technology experience across payer, provider, clinical, case management, claims, eligibility, interoperability, or government health systems.
• Experience contributing to shared quality platforms, engineering enablement, innovation labs, patents, publications, or conference presentations.
• Advanced certification in AI-QE, cloud, security, performance engineering, or test architecture.

AI and Automation Expectations

• Design autonomous testing ecosystems; apply agentic AI workflows and multi‑LLM orchestration where approved; establish responsible AI testing patterns and governance guardrails.

Success Measures

• Quality strategy adopted across product/domain teams with measurable improvements.
• Reusable automation, platforms, or tools that improve speed, coverage, reliability, and compliance confidence.
• Successful delivery of complex healthcare initiatives with clear risk visibility and reduced production issues.
• Visible technical leadership through standards, mentoring, thought leadership, and cross‑team influence.
• Responsible AI‑QE adoption with governance, traceability, and value measurement.