The Next Level of Fire & Life Safety Leadership
With more than two centuries of combined history, brands like Kidde, Kidde Commercial, Edwards, GST, Badger, and Aritech have been leading the way in protecting people and property around the world. Now, we’re taking that leadership to the next level. Kidde Global Solutions brings together the most trusted and iconic brands in safety, building upon our shared experience and expertise to address the needs and challenges of more customers in more places. With an unmatched portfolio of solutions and services, and a commitment to constant innovation we’re elevating the standards for an entire industry – and establishing the next level of fire and life safety leadership.
At Kidde Global Solutions, you’re joining a global technology leader in fire and life safety solutions and our employees are the heart of it all. With industry-defining brands in life safety and security, you’ll be part of a legacy of leadership working with cutting-edge technologies that protect lives and property worldwide. As a leading fire safety brand, our mission is to provide solutions that protect people and property from the effects of fire and related hazards. We’re committed to expanding our impact and providing dynamic opportunities for growth within our team. You’ll be part of a company that prioritizes quality, integrity, collaboration, and customer care, with the resources, training, and incentives to ensure your success every step of the way.
Kidde Global Solutions is seeking an experienced Digital Portfolio QA Manager to lead quality assurance for mobile, web, cloud, desktop software, API, and connected digital applications. The role will build and guide a strong QA team, strengthen automation and testing practices, adopt practical AI methods in day-to-day QA work, and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable digital experiences across IoT, intrusion, video, and access-control product ecosystems
Role Overview
The Digital Portfolio QA Manager will be responsible for defining and executing the QA approach across web, mobile, API, cloud, desktop software, and connected product platforms. This includes planning test coverage, improving automation, using AI to make testing faster and smarter, managing release readiness, and driving measurable quality outcomes for applications and tools used to configure, commission, monitor, and manage hardware devices.
Key Responsibilities
The role is accountable for team leadership, QA planning, automation, AI adoption in testing, and release confidence across mobile, web, API, cloud, desktop software, and connected digital applications. Key responsibilities include:
QA strategy and ownership: Define and continuously improve the quality engineering strategy for web, mobile, API, cloud, desktop software, and connected digital application releases in alignment with product, engineering, and business objectives.
Team leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of QA engineers responsible for mobile and web-based digital applications, promoting accountability, engineering discipline, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
AI adoption in QA: Use practical AI methods to improve testing, including AI-assisted test case creation, test data generation, automation support, defect analysis, risk identification, and quality reporting.
Testing and automation methods: Lead manual, automated, regression, integration, API, mobile, web, desktop, and end-to-end testing using scalable frameworks, reusable test assets, CI/CD integration, and clear effectiveness metrics.
Digital application quality: Ensure functional, usability, compatibility, accessibility, performance, security, integration, and regression quality across Android, iOS, responsive web applications, portals, APIs, desktop tools, and cloud-connected workflows.
IoT and security-domain alignment: Apply a fair understanding of IoT application behavior, device-to-cloud interactions, mobile app connectivity, user workflows, and system integrations; experience in intrusion, video, access control, security panels or connected security ecosystems is highly appreciated.
Release governance and metrics: Establish release-readiness criteria, quality dashboards, defect governance, traceability, risk-based testing, and executive-level reporting to provide transparent quality signals and data-driven release recommendations.
Continuous improvement: Improve test productivity, automation value, defect detection, regression cycle time, release predictability, and customer quality through better processes, metrics, and AI-enabled testing improvements.
Cross-functional influence: Partner closely with product management, engineering, architecture, DevOps, customer support, and program teams to align quality priorities, resolve risks, improve product reliability, and deliver customer-ready digital products.
Education
BE, B.Tech., ME, or M.Tech. in Electronics, Communication, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering discipline.
Experience and Technical Qualifications
Minimum 12+ years of experience in software quality engineering, digital application testing, test automation, or QA leadership roles, including substantial experience managing QA teams for product-based mobile, web, API, cloud, desktop software, or connected application platforms.
Managerial QA leadership: Proven experience leading QA teams, defining team goals, managing delivery commitments, reviewing quality metrics, coaching engineers, and influencing engineering and product stakeholders in a product development environment.
Mobile, web, and desktop application QA: Strong experience testing Android, iOS, responsive web applications, portals, desktop software used to configure and manage hardware devices, APIs, user workflows, cross-browser behavior, device compatibility, integration flows, and cloud-connected digital services.
AI and automation outcomes: Demonstrated track record of using AI in QA processes to achieve measurable outcomes such as increased automation coverage, faster regression execution, improved defect prediction, reduced manual effort, better test design quality, and stronger release confidence.
Automation and toolchain expertise: Hands-on background with modern automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Robot Framework, PyTest, Postman, API automation, JIRA, X-Ray or equivalent test management platforms.
Preferred domain experience: Fair understanding of IoT applications, device connectivity, cloud integrations, mobile-to-device interactions, and connected product behavior; prior exposure to intrusion, video surveillance, access control, security monitoring, or smart building/security domains is highly appreciated.
Leadership and Managerial Competencies
People leadership and ownership: Builds and leads high-performing QA teams with clear ownership, accountability, mentoring, performance orientation, and commitment to product quality outcomes.
Strategic execution: Converts product priorities into practical QA plans, balances hands-on technical judgment with managerial decision-making, removes execution barriers, and escalates risks with clarity.
Stakeholder communication: Communicates quality status, automation progress, AI adoption impact, release risks, and improvement plans effectively to engineering leaders, product owners, program teams, and business stakeholders.
Collaboration and delivery: Collaborates effectively across teams and maintains accountability for timely, high-quality delivery.
Continuous learning: Demonstrates curiosity, creativity, and a sustained commitment to continuous learning, engineering excellence, and professional growth.
The ideal candidate will bring strong managerial maturity, digital QA depth, automation leadership, and a proven ability to convert AI adoption into tangible quality, productivity, and release-readiness outcomes for product-based digital applications.
World Leaders in Fire and Life Safety
Kidde Global Solutions is a world leader in fire & life safety solutions tailored for complex commercial facilities to homes. Through iconic, industry-defining brands including Kidde, Kidde Commercial, Edwards, GST, Badger, and Aritech, we provide residential and commercial customers with advanced solutions and services to protect people and property in a wide range of applications, all around the globe.
Skills Required
- BE, B.Tech., ME, or M.Tech. in Electronics, Communication, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering discipline
- 12+ years of experience in software quality engineering, digital application testing, test automation, or QA leadership
- Experience managing QA teams in product-based mobile, web, API, cloud, desktop software, or connected application environments
- Experience defining team goals, managing delivery commitments, reviewing quality metrics, coaching engineers, and influencing stakeholders
- Strong experience testing Android, iOS, responsive web applications, portals, desktop software, APIs, user workflows, cross-browser behavior, device compatibility, integration flows, and cloud-connected services
- Demonstrated use of AI in QA to improve automation coverage, regression execution, defect prediction, test design, manual effort, or release confidence
- Hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Robot Framework, PyTest, Postman, API automation, JIRA, and X-Ray or equivalent platforms
- Understanding of IoT applications, device connectivity, cloud integrations, mobile-to-device interactions, and connected product behavior
- Exposure to intrusion, video surveillance, access control, security monitoring, or smart building and security domains
What We Do
Kidde Global Solutions (KGS) is a global fire and life-safety company bringing together trusted safety and security brands. It provides advanced solutions and services for residential and commercial customers, helping protect people and property across a wide range of applications worldwide. The company focuses on raising industry standards through its combined experience and expertise in fire protection, detection, alarms, and related security offerings.
