You will join a truly global QA leadership community, collaborating with fellow QA leads.
You will be responsible for technical excellence, people development, and fostering a culture of innovation and quality. You will ensure our QA engineers in India are set up for success, able to grow their skills, and are aligned with Arcadis vision for pragmatic, fast feedback quality assurance. The ideal candidate will bring outstanding management skills, deep technical expertise, and a passion for coaching and collaboration in a multicultural and dynamic environment.
Role accountabilities:
- Team Leadership & Coaching: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of QA engineers, ensuring their growth in technical and professional skills, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
- Technical Excellence: Drive the adoption and usage of modern test automation tools and approaches (web is required, mobile is a strong plus). Set high standards for quality, coverage, and maintainability across teams using diverse technology stacks.
- Agile & Pragmatic QA: Guide teams in agile ways of working, making pragmatic decisions about what and how to test, and embedding risk-based testing, specification by example, and automation strategies in daily practice.
- Vision & Development: Contribute to and help shape the evolving QA strategy for Arcadis Digital Intelligence, bringing your vision for modern QA and continuous improvement to the global QA community.
- Collaboration & Communication: Act as a connector between QA, Developers, Product Owners, UX and other QA
- Leads. Ensure clear, proactive communication within your team and with global stakeholders.
- Quality Delivery: Ensure QA activities support the delivery of high-quality software products, with clear focus on customer/user value, traceability, and measurable outcomes.
- Flexibility & Global Mindset: Adapt to working in a global organization, occasionally supporting teams and stakeholders in different time zones, including the USA West Coast.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Education: Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Leadership: Proven experience managing or leading QA/testing teams developing multiple different products, ideally in a distributed or global setting. Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and develop junior engineers.
- Technical Skills: Strong hands-on experience with test automation frameworks for web (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, etc.) and preferably mobile (Appium or similar). Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating test automation.
- QA Mindset: Deep knowledge of modern, pragmatic QA methodologies (risk-based testing, specification by example, test automation strategy). Able to balance automation, exploratory, and manual testing as needed.
- Agile Experience: Hands-on experience working in agile (Scrum/Kanban) product teams, with a focus on continuous delivery and short feedback loops.
- Communication: Excellent English communication skills, with the ability to coach junior team members and communicate effectively with developers, product owners, and international stakeholders.
- Vision & Innovation: A clear vision for developing QA maturity, able to contribute to global QA strategy and drive innovation within the QA hub.
- Flexibility: Willingness and ability to work across time zones as needed (especially with Europe and North America).
- Experience: The candidate has at least 10 years of experience in the field of Quality Assurance, including a minimum of 5 years as a team leader or manager.
