Quality Engineering Director

Tata Consultancy Services; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual incentive

Medical coverage

Family leaves

Insurance options

Certification & training reimbursement

Vacation & holidays

401K plan

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Charlotte, NC, seeks a senior Quality Engineering leader with 18+ years of experience in QE, test automation, and technology delivery to drive enterprise QA programs.

The role emphasizes AI/GenAI applications to test design, data generation, and intelligent regression, with opportunities in pre-sales, solution design, and delivery across globally distributed teams.

Qualifications

• 18+ years in Quality Engineering or related fields with leadership of enterprise QA programs.
• Expertise in QE strategy, functional and regression testing, automation, data/ETL testing.
• Experience applying AI/GenAI to test design, data generation, script maintenance, and quality insights.
• Strong pre-sales: solution design, estimation, proposals and delivery execution.
• Knowledge of Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, risk-based testing, and observability.

Skills

Quality engineering leadership

Test automation

Insurance/Financial services domain

AI-enabled testing

Pre-sales & solution design

Agile & DevSecOps

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed teams leadership

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cucumber

Rest Assured

Postman

JMeter

LoadRunner

GitHub

Jenkins

DevOps

Rally

Test management platforms

Job description

Job Description

United States, North Carolina, Charlotte

Oct 28, 2026

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 18+ years in Quality Engineering, test automation, test transformation, or technology delivery, including technical leadership of enterprise QA programs preferably in Insurance & financial services


• Deep expertise in Quality engineering strategy, functional and regression testing, test automation, data and ETL testing and QE transformation.


• 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.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Ability to influence decisions through QE technology expertise and business outcomes.


• Strong communication, presentation skills and stakeholder management.


• Structured problem-solving and talent development.

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

• Discretionary Annual Incentive.


• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.


• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.


• Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.


• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimb ursement.


• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.


• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Salary Range: $150,000 - $185,000 a year