Global Quality Engineering Leader — Automation-First Delivery

Ellucian; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

Flexible time off

401k with match

Parental Leave

Telemedicine

Job summary

Ellucian is seeking a strategic and technically accomplished Senior Manager, Test & Quality Assurance to lead our global Quality Engineering organization within Professional Services. This leadership role defines and executes our enterprise QA strategy, ensuring scalable, high-quality customer implementations across our delivery organization.

Reporting into Professional Services, you will lead a distributed team across the United States and Latin America, collaborate with our India CoE, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, or Software Testing.
• 5+ years leading geographically distributed engineering or quality teams.
• Experience building scalable testing processes and automation.
• Experience with modern testing frameworks and CI/CD.
• Higher education technology experience is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the global Test & Quality Assurance strategy for Professional Services.
• Lead and develop a distributed team of Quality Engineers across the United States and Latin America, with India CoE support.
• Establish governance, standards, KPIs, and quality metrics across all delivery teams.
• Drive automation-first testing across the implementation lifecycle and CI/CD integration.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Automation Testing

UI Automation

API Testing

CI/CD

Cloud Platforms

Leadership

Cross-functional Leadership

SaaS Implementations

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Postman

REST Assured

SoapUI

JMeter

K6

Gatling

OWASP ZAP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Ellucian is seeking a strategic and technically accomplished Senior Manager, Test & Quality Assurance to lead our global Quality Engineering organization within Professional Services. This leadership role defines and executes our enterprise QA strategy, ensuring scalable, high-quality customer implementations across our delivery organization.

Reporting into Professional Services, you will lead a distributed team across the United States and Latin America, collaborate with our India CoE, and