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Engineering Manager, QA

Emergent· Engineering
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Hybrid (Bangalore)$0Full-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Engineering Manager, QA at Emergent to lead the Quality Assurance function, strengthen testing practices, and ensure consistent product quality across teams in a fast-paced AI-native software platform environment.

Responsibilities

  • Own the QA strategy and testing approach across product features and releases.
  • Define test plans, test scenarios, coverage expectations, and release-readiness criteria based on product risks.
  • Ensure functional, regression, integration, exploratory, and end-to-end testing are performed effectively.
  • Identify quality risks early during requirement discussions and ensure appropriate test coverage before development is completed.
  • Establish consistent QA processes and standards across product teams.
  • Ensure testing focuses on customer experience, business-critical workflows, and potential production risks.
  • Own QA sign-off and communicate release risks clearly to stakeholders.
  • Drive defect triage, prioritisation, root cause discussions, and follow-up on critical issues.
  • Ensure production defects are analysed and preventive actions are implemented.
  • Monitor defect leakage, regression failures, escaped bugs, and recurring quality issues.
  • Partner with Engineering and Product leaders to make informed release decisions.
  • Balance release timelines with product quality and customer impact.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop QA engineers, help them improve testing skills, product understanding, and ownership.
  • Set clear expectations, goals, and performance standards for the team.
  • Conduct regular feedback and career development discussions.
  • Hire and onboard QA talent as the organisation grows.
  • Allocate team resources based on product priorities and release commitments.
  • Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, proactive communication, and continuous improvement.
  • Encourage team members to take ownership of quality rather than limiting their responsibilities to executing test cases.
  • Work closely with Engineering, Product, and Design teams to ensure requirements are testable and quality risks are identified early.
  • Participate in feature planning, requirement reviews, and release discussions.
  • Ensure QA is involved throughout the development lifecycle rather than only during final validation.
  • Communicate testing progress, blockers, release risks, and quality status to stakeholders.
  • Drive alignment across teams on defect severity, release readiness, and quality expectations.
  • Improve team execution by identifying process bottlenecks and removing unnecessary testing delays.
  • Improve test planning, test case quality, regression coverage, and testing efficiency.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce repetitive manual effort and improve QA productivity.
  • Encourage the team to use AI tools where appropriate to support test scenario creation, test documentation, and test analysis.
  • Maintain a basic understanding of automation capabilities and collaborate with SDETs when automation can improve coverage or efficiency.
  • Use quality metrics and production feedback to identify improvement areas and track progress.

Qualifications

  • 8–12 years of experience in software QA and testing, with meaningful experience leading or managing QA teams.
  • Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, functional testing, regression testing, exploratory testing, and defect management.
  • Experience managing release quality and making risk-based testing and release-readiness decisions.
  • Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop QA engineers.
  • Experience working closely with Engineering and Product teams in a fast-paced product environment.
  • Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, agile delivery, and release processes.
  • Ability to analyse requirements, identify edge cases, and ensure adequate test coverage.
  • Experience tracking quality metrics, analysing defect trends, and driving process improvements.
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, prioritisation, and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong ownership and the ability to manage multiple priorities without compromising critical quality standards.

Skills

Required:QA strategy and test planningTest execution (functional, regression, integration, exploratory, end-to-end)Release readiness and risk assessmentPeople managementCross-functional collaborationQuality metrics & process improvement

Benefits

  • Good to have: Basic understanding of test automation concepts and their role in improving testing efficiency.
  • Experience collaborating with SDETs or automation engineers.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted testing and AI productivity tools.
  • Experience testing SaaS products, AI-powered applications, or complex user workflows.
  • Experience establishing QA processes in a rapidly growing organisation.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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