Practice Lead for Quality Engineering (QE)

Career Connect; Philippines; Hybrid; PHP 3,320,000 - 4,492,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work setup

Job summary

Career Connect is seeking a Practice Lead for Quality Engineering (QE) in the Philippines to define and scale the QE practice across the organization. This role drives the transition from traditional QA to modern, engineering-led quality, embedding quality across the SDLC through automation, DevOps, Agile, and AI-enabled testing.

The candidate will lead capability development, governance, and client engagements, mentor QE teams, and contribute to revenue growth through new QE offerings and

Qualifications

• 12+ years in Quality Engineering or Software Testing, with at least 5 years in a leadership or practice-building role.
• Expertise in test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, Agile/DevOps environments, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience leading QE transformations across large-scale digital platforms or enterprise systems.
• Proven ability to build and scale practices, including people, offerings, and delivery models.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Quality Engineering practice strategy, roadmap, and operating model aligned with business and technology goals.
• Establish QE as a value-driven engineering discipline, moving beyond defect detection to quality enablement and risk mitigation.
• Act as the thought leader for QE, keeping the organization ahead of industry trends (AI in testing, shift-left/right, continuous testing).
• Design and standardize QE frameworks, methodologies, tools, and accelerators across automation, performance, security, and reliability testing.
• Build and evolve QE service offerings, including test automation, CI/CD quality gates, API testing, data and AI testing, and observability-driven testing.
• Define maturity models, reusable assets, reference architectures, and best practices.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality QE delivery across accounts and programs.
• Establish governance, KPIs, and metrics (defect leakage, automation coverage, cycle time, quality risk).
• Support complex or at-risk engagements as an escalation and assurance leader.
• Build, mentor, and scale high-performing QE teams and communities of practice.
• Define role definitions, skill matrices, learning paths, and certification strategies.
• Coach delivery leads, architects, and engineers in modern QE practices.
• Partner with clients, and leaders to position QE as a strategic enabler of speed, resilience, and customer experience.
• Lead client conversations on QE transformation, assessments, and roadmap development.
• Support pre-sales activities including solution design, estimations, proposals, and executive presentations.
• Contribute to revenue growth through new offerings, account expansion, and deal shaping.
• Improve delivery margins through automation, standardization, and productivity improvements.
• Track practice-level financials, utilization, and investment priorities.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Test automation

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps

Leadership

Agile

Cloud-native architectures

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

AI in testing

Tools

Test automation frameworks

CI/CD tooling

Observability

Job description

Practice Lead for Quality Engineering (QE)

Full time | Career Connect | Philippines

Posted On 09/04/2026

Job Information

Technology

Work Experience 5+ years

350,000

City Taguig City

State/Province National Capital Region (Manila)

NCR

Job Description

Job Overview: The Practice Lead for Quality Engineering (QE) is responsible for defining and scaling the Quality Engineering practice across the organization. This role drives the transition from traditional QA to modern, engineering-led quality practices, embedding quality across the SDLC through automation, DevOps, Agile, and AI-enabled testing. The Practice Lead ensures consistent delivery excellence, capability maturity, and commercial success of QE offerings.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the Quality Engineering practice strategy, roadmap, and operating model aligned with business and technology goals.
• Establish QE as a value-driven engineering discipline, moving beyond defect detection to quality enablement and risk mitigation.
• Act as the thought leader for QE, keeping the organization ahead of industry trends (AI in testing, shift-left/right, continuous testing).

Capability & Offering Development

• Design and standardize QE frameworks, methodologies, tools, and accelerators across automation, performance, security, and reliability testing.
• Build and evolve QE service offerings, including test automation, CI/CD quality gates, API testing, data and AI testing, and observability-driven testing.
• Define maturity models, reusable assets, reference architectures, and best practices.

Delivery Excellence & Governance

• Ensure consistent, high-quality QE delivery across accounts and programs.
• Establish governance, KPIs, and metrics (defect leakage, automation coverage, cycle time, quality risk).
• Support complex or at-risk engagements as an escalation and assurance leader.

Talent & Capability Building

• Build, mentor, and scale high-performing QE teams and communities of practice.
• Define role definitions, skill matrices, learning paths, and certification strategies.
• Coach delivery leads, architects, and engineers in modern QE practices.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with clients, and leaders to position QE as a strategic enabler of speed, resilience, and customer experience.
• Lead client conversations on QE transformation, assessments, and roadmap development.
• Support pre-sales activities including solution design, estimations, proposals, and executive presentations.

Commercial & Growth Support

• Contribute to revenue growth through new offerings, account expansion, and deal shaping.
• Improve delivery margins through automation, standardization, and productivity improvements.
• Track practice-level financials, utilization, and investment priorities.

Requirements

Required

• 12+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Testing, or Software Engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership or practice-building role.
• Strong expertise in test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, Agile/DevOps environments, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience leading QE transformations across large-scale digital platforms or enterprise systems.
• Proven ability to build and scale practices, including people, offerings, and delivery models.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

Preferred

• Experience with AI-driven testing, test data management, performance engineering, and security testing.
• Background in consulting or technology services organizations.
• Certifications in ISTQB, SAFe, Agile, DevOps, or cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Success Measures

• Adoption and maturity of QE practices across delivery teams
• Improvement in quality metrics, release velocity, and defect leakage
• Growth of QE-related revenue and client satisfaction
• Strength and sustainability of QE talent pipeline and communities

Work Set-up: Hybrid in BGC (1-2x a week RTO or as needed)