QE Practice Lead

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🕒 May 11

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Exavalu

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

🤝 B2B

🏦 Banking

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

B2B • Banking • Healthcare Insurance

Exavalu is a business advisory and technology consulting firm that partners with enterprises to deliver high-impact digital transformation. Run by former CIOs, CXOs, and consulting principals, Exavalu offers strategic advisory, core systems transformation, systems integration, data & analytics, innovation and privacy/compliance solutions across regulated sectors. The firm focuses on Insurance, Banking & Financial Services, and Healthcare & Life Sciences, providing industry-tailored technology implementations and program leadership using partners like Guidewire, Salesforce, MuleSoft, PegaSystems and AWS.

📋 Description

• The QE Practice Head is responsible for building, scaling, and leading the Quality Engineering practice across the organization. • This role owns QE strategy, offerings, delivery excellence, innovation, and P&L, while partnering with business, sales, and delivery leaders to drive revenue growth, customer satisfaction, and engineering maturity. • The role moves QE from traditional testing to quality-first, automation-led, AI-driven engineering. • Define and execute the QE practice vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with business goals. • Evolve QE from test-centric to quality engineering and continuous testing. • Establish global QE standards, frameworks, metrics, and best practices. • Build and mentor QE leadership (Practice Managers, Architects, COEs). • Design QE service offerings across: Test Automation (UI, API, Mobile), Performance, Security & Reliability Testing, DevOps & Continuous Testing, Data, AI/ML, and Model Validation Testing, Cloud, Microservices, and Platform Testing. • Drive adoption of AI-led testing, test intelligence, and shift-left / shift-right strategies. • Ensure high-quality delivery across programs with strong SLAs, KPIs, and quality metrics. • Establish governance models, risk management, and compliance standards. • Partner with Sales and Solutions teams for pre-sales, estimations, and proposals.

🎯 Requirements

• 19+ years in Quality Engineering / Software Testing • 5+ years in a leadership role managing large QE practices or COEs • Experience running QE for large-scale enterprise or BFSI / Insurance / Telecom / Retail programs • Proven track record in scaling practices, driving revenue, and transformations • Strong expertise in: Automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, REST Assured, etc.) • CI/CD & DevOps (Jenkins, GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab) • Cloud-native testing (AWS, Azure, GCP) • Performance & Security testing tools • Solid understanding of Agile, SAFe, DevSecOps, and SRE concepts • Exposure to AI/ML testing, data validation, and test analytics is a strong plus • Strong executive presence and stakeholder management • Ability to influence CXOs, clients, and internal leadership • Strategic thinker with hands-on execution mindset • Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Diversity Inclusion: At Exavalu, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other status protected by applicable law. • We nurture a culture that embraces all individuals and promotes diverse perspectives, where you can make an impact and grow your career. • Exavalu also promotes flexibility depending on the needs of employees, customers and the business. It might be part-time work, working outside normal 9-5 business hours or working remotely. • We also have a welcome back program to help people get back to mainstream after a long break due to health or family reasons.