Quality Engineering Practice Lead — AI-Driven 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

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