Global Quality Engineering Director – AI-Driven Testing & Automation

Tata Consultancy Services

Charlotte (NC)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 185,000

Full time

42 hours ago

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Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Charlotte, NC seeks a Senior Quality Engineering leader with 18+ years of QE, test automation, and enterprise QA program leadership, preferably in Insurance or financial services. You will shape quality strategy, drive automation and AI-enabled testing, and guide globally distributed teams.

You will partner with client technology leaders, define measurable outcomes, and lead PoCs/MVPs to scale automation across domains.

Qualifications

18+ years in Quality Engineering, test automation, test transformation, or technology delivery.
Deep expertise in QE strategy, functional and regression testing, data and ETL testing.
Working knowledge of tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured, Postman, JMeter, LoadRunner, GitHub, Jenkins, DevOps, Rally, and test-management platforms.
Experience applying AI/GenAI to test design, test-data generation, script creation and maintenance, defect analysis, risk-based testing, intelligent regression, and quality insights.
Strong pre-sales background, solution design, estimation, proposal defense, presentations, and pursuit-to-delivery execution.
Strong knowledge of Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, shift-left/right, service virtualization, performance, security, accessibility, observability, and production-quality validation.
Ability to define measurable outcomes using automation coverage, defect leakage, release predictability, cycle time, test effectiveness, productivity, reliability, and business-risk indicators.
Experience leading globally distributed teams.
Insurance or Financial Services experience is preferred.
Core QE expertise to drive end-to-end new business growth and delivery of QE programs.
Partner and build relationships with client technology leaders, lead strategic pursuits by shaping differentiated solutions, developing estimates and proposals, and presenting solution to customer leaders.
Drive PoCs/MVPs that demonstrate the value of automation, AI-enabled testing, intelligent tools, and engineering accelerators, and convert validated concepts into scalable programs.
Drive automation-first and risk-based quality strategies across functional and non-functional testing
Establish quality gates, dashboards, and KPI reviews; use data to identify risks, remove bottlenecks, and improve quality, speed, predictability, and cost efficiency.
Influence QE customer team for automation frameworks, test platforms, tools, environments, test data, service virtualization, reporting, and CI/CD integration.
Influence client decisions through technical credibility, executive communication, business-value articulation, reusable assets, reference architectures, and industry solutions.
Build and mentor QE test leads, automation engineers, and AI-enabled testing specialists.

Responsibilities

Core QE expertise to drive end-to-end new business growth and delivery of QE programs.
Partner and build relationships with client technology leaders, lead strategic pursuits by shaping differentiated solutions, developing estimates and proposals, and presenting solution to customer leaders.
Drive PoCs/MVPs that demonstrate the value of automation, AI-enabled testing, intelligent tools, and engineering accelerators, and convert validated concepts into scalable programs.
Drive automation-first and risk-based quality strategies across functional and non-functional testing
Establish quality gates, dashboards, and KPI reviews; use data to identify risks, remove bottlenecks, and improve quality, speed, predictability, and cost efficiency.
Influence QE customer team for automation frameworks, test platforms, tools, environments, test data, service virtualization, reporting, and CI/CD integration.
Influence client decisions through technical credibility, executive communication, business-value articulation, reusable assets, reference architectures, and industry solutions.
Build and mentor QE test leads, automation engineers, and AI-enabled testing specialists.