QATPROGRAM DIRECTOR
We at Coforge are hiring a QATPROGRAM DIRECTOR with the following skillset:
Skill: Quality strategy leadership, risk‑driven testing & release readiness, supported by automation, governance, and continuous improvement.
Experience: 15+ years
Work Location: Telford
Working Mode: 3 day /Week from office
Own the end‑to‑end QAT delivery for one or more programs/products, ensuring right‑sized quality strategies, risk‑based test approaches, automation adoption, and on‑time, high‑quality releases.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain quality approaches tailored to each programme or product, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams.
- Work with engineering, architecture, and product leads to anticipate risks early and influence design choices that improve testability and reliability.
- Consistently advocate for quality as a shared responsibility across the delivery lifecycle.
- Serve as the senior quality advisor, helping teams interpret expectations, choose appropriate methods, and overcome delivery challenges.
- Provide mentorship to QAT engineers, automation specialists, and cross‑functional squad members.
- Facilitate continuous improvement conversations grounded in data and practical constraints.
- Shape or validate test strategies ensuring comprehensive functional, non‑functional, and process coverage.
- Review team test artefacts (test plans, automation frameworks, performance strategies) to ensure they are robust and aligned to organisational expectations.
- Lead release readiness assessments, ensuring coverage, defects, risks, and compliance are fully understood prior to go live.
- Conduct or coordinate formal quality reviews, assessments, or audits across teams or vendor partners.
- Identify gaps in processes, trace root causes, and recommend corrective actions that can be adopted sustainably.
- Verify effectiveness of corrective actions and support compliance with standards and governance requirements.
- Promote consistent and effective use of testing and quality tools (automation frameworks, CI/CD integrations, analytics dashboards).
- Support teams in adopting, improving, and optimising test environments, datasets, and toolchains.
- Provide practical training, playbooks, or reusable patterns to help teams embed good practices.
- Deliver reporting that highlights insights, not just metrics, enabling leaders to understand quality trends and make informed decisions.
- Communicate risks and issues clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Shine a light on systemic challenges that require cross team or organisational action.
Qualification & Technical Skills
Bachelor's degree (or Masters) in Computer Science or related field.
- 12-16 years of experience in managing testing of mobile apps, Web application, Test Automation, integration layer/APIs and Database
- Experience leading quality strategy across multiple squads or programmes simultaneously.
- Experience interacting with internal audits, compliance reviews, or regulated delivery environments.
- 5+ years of Banking Domain exposure, loan origination etc.
- Knowledge of DevOps, Agile processes and associated tools
- Very good knowledge in Software Testing life cycle, Defect processes, Triaging and Test tools
- Proven experience deploying enterprise automation, DevOps, Cloud, and CI/CD QE ecosystems.
- Expertise in regulatory, compliance, operational risk management and audit collaboration.
- Possess relevant certifications like ISTQB, CSTE, ISEB etc. to complement experience.
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