As Head of Quality Engineering CoE, you will define and lead the enterprise-wide vision for software quality. Reporting to the Head of Engineering CoE, you will act as the strategic authority on quality, shaping how quality is engineered into products, platforms, and services from design through production.
Requirements
- Define and own the enterprise Quality Engineering strategy, aligned with business risk, platform architecture, and delivery models
- Act as a neutral, trusted thought partner to senior technology and business leadership, providing insights on quality maturity, risk trends, and improvement priorities
- Establish Quality Engineering as a core enabler of resilience, scalability, and speed, not a control function
- Shape the long-term roadmap for quality capabilities across development, release, and production
- Define and operationalize group-wide Quality Engineering standards, principles, and maturity models
- Ensure consistent traceability from requirements to test coverage, focused on critical business processes
- Embed risk-based testing, quality gates, and non-functional requirements into delivery pipelines
- Drive alignment across product, platform, and domain teams while allowing proportional flexibility
- Lead the transformation toward API-first, workflow-level, and scalable test automation
- Increase automation coverage, test data richness, and scenario diversity where business impact is highest
- Champion AI-assisted and generative AI approaches to improve test creation, maintenance, and analysis
- Evaluate and standardize tooling to support quality engineering efficiency and insight
- Define and own quality metrics and KPIs spanning development, release, and production
- Use incident, defect, and recovery data to measure real quality outcomes, not just process compliance
- Drive continuous improvement through evidence-based insights and learning loops
- Ensure quality accountability extends into production through monitoring, observability, and RCA-driven learning
- Partner with engineering and operations teams to reduce repeat incidents and systemic failure patterns
- Promote a culture where incidents are used to strengthen design, testing, and requirements
- Build and lead a high-performing Quality Engineering CoE
- Define career paths, skill frameworks, and development programs for quality engineers
- Influence and coach engineering leaders to embed quality ownership within teams
- Foster a strong quality culture grounded in engineering excellence and accountability
Benefits
- Performance-based variable compensation component
- Global and location-specific benefits
