We are seeking an experienced Senior Test Manager with a strong background in Functional Testing and exposure in automation tools like playwright,selenium to lead large QA teams and ensure successful project delivery. The ideal candidate will be responsible for Team Management, Delivery Management, Stakeholder Management, and End-to-End Project Delivery, while maintaining high quality standards, meeting timelines, and driving customer satisfaction.
- Lead and manage Functional Testing and Automation Testing teams across multiple projects and engagements.
- Own end-to-end test delivery, including test planning, execution, defect management, reporting, and release sign-off.
- Drive project delivery within agreed timelines, scope, quality standards, and budget.
- Manage stakeholder and client relationships, including communication, expectation management, and escalation handling.
- Oversee resource planning, risk management, and delivery governance activities.
- Collaborate with business, development, and project management teams to ensure successful product releases.
- Define and implement testing strategies, quality metrics, and process improvements.
- Mentor, coach, and develop team members while fostering a high-performance culture.
- Ensure adherence to SDLC, STLC, quality assurance standards, and organizational best practices.
- 15 to 19 years of experience in Software Testing, with extensive expertise in Functional Testing.
- Proven experience in Team Management, Delivery Management, and Stakeholder Management.
- Strong track record of handling large QA teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- In-depth understanding of SDLC, STLC, Test Planning, Defect Management, Test Governance, and Quality Metrics.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong experience in client-facing roles with the ability to manage executive-level stakeholders.
- Ability to drive continuous improvement initiatives and enhance delivery efficiency.
- Should have exposure to automation tools like playwright, selenium,typescript.
Skills Required
- 15 to 19 years of experience in software testing
- Extensive expertise in functional testing
- Experience in team management, delivery management, and stakeholder management
- Experience managing large QA teams and multiple projects simultaneously
- Understanding of SDLC, STLC, test planning, defect management, test governance, and quality metrics
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Leadership, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills
- Client-facing experience managing executive-level stakeholders
- Ability to drive continuous improvement and delivery efficiency
What We Do
Kumaran Systems is an IT Services Company with imprints in three countries. The past two decades has seen us provide our global clientele with high-end IT services that include migration support, system integration and infrastructure management solutions, providing one-stop-solution to all your IT demands. Our expertise and in-depth knowledge of businesses help us cater to a variety of industries. Our team strives to know your industry better, by observing current trends and the way it works, to tailor-make our solutions to your needs.With over 20 years of customer orientation, over 2000 engagements across Telecom, Education and Banking & Financial services spread across the globe, Kumaran stands as a key advisor to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in their business driven technology enablement drive. Kumaran System's Customer Orientation is driven by a global delivery business model giving its customers to choose between an Onshore-Offshore mix. The delivery models enable multilevel touch points between the client, partner networks and Kumaran thereby enabling business driven customer sensitivity and agility. ENGAGE, EMERGE AND EXCEL Involving ourselves in a purposeful action, using our abilities to its maximum, helps us feel positive about ourselves. Such positivity gives raise to positive thinking and positive ideas. Ideas evolve into vision and set our aim! Our aspirations engage us with the incentive of sweet success! Every endeavor has its own pitfalls. Perseverance helps us emerge a successful entrepreneur after any deterrent. In our attempt to achieve our aim, we keep upgrading our knowledge and skill, to surface successful! A genius mind does not work to excel, but excels in work! We challenge ourselves with every next step! We change every deterrent to a stepping stone to success. We essentially, engage, emerge and excel
