Experience: 14–19 Years
Seeking an experienced Senior Test Manager with a strong background in Functional and Automation Testing to lead QA delivery, test strategy, stakeholder management, estimation, and costing across multiple projects.
- Define and drive test strategy, governance, and quality assurance processes.
- Manage end-to-end testing across Functional, Automation, Integration, and UAT.
- Lead automation initiatives and improve test efficiency and coverage.
- Own effort estimation, budgeting, resource planning, and project costing.
- Manage client and stakeholder communications, reporting, and escalations.
- Track quality metrics, risks, dependencies, and delivery milestones.
- Lead and mentor QA teams across multiple projects and locations.
- Support pre-sales activities, solutioning, and RFP responses.
- Strong experience in Test Management with Functional and Automation Testing.
- Expertise in effort estimation, budgeting, and costing models.
- Excellent stakeholder and client management skills.
- Experience managing large QA teams and enterprise testing programs.
- Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
- Exposure to automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or equivalent.
- Strong risk management, governance, and reporting capabilities.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- ISTQB, PMP, Scrum, or equivalent certifications preferred.
Skills Required
- 14-19 years of professional experience
- Strong experience in test management with functional and automation testing
- Expertise in effort estimation, budgeting, and costing models
- Stakeholder and client management experience
- Experience managing large QA teams and enterprise testing programs
- Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and CI/CD practices
- Exposure to Selenium, Playwright, or equivalent automation tools
- Risk management, governance, and reporting capabilities
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- ISTQB, PMP, Scrum, or equivalent certification
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
