Manager, Sr SDET - E2E Test Lead

Your opportunity

Schwab Description

At Charles Schwab, our purpose is simple: we championclient’sgoals with passion and integrity. Guided by honesty, mutualrespectand a commitment to doingwhat’sright, we bring innovation, education, and service together to help shape financial futures. Our people are the foundation of our success - they approach their work with curiosity and collaboration, coming together to create solutions that make a meaningful impact for clients and communities. As we expand into India, we are bringing this same culture of inclusion, learning, and opportunity to new talent. Joining us means becoming part of a global team where your work matters and your future can take shape.

Schwab India Description

Our Hyderabad location is central to Schwab’s growth, bringing together talented people and technology to drive innovation,scaleand efficiency. Here, you will work alongside teams who create solutions that support millions of clients every day. The work you do is more than daily operations -it’sa chance to experiment, learn, and build within avalues-driven, supportive environment. This is a unique opportunity to be part of our early growth phase and shape something new, backed by the stability and strength of a Fortune 500 company. Your impact begins on day one, and your contributions will help define our future in the region.

Role Description

This Senior QA Engineer leads program-level end-to-end test planning and execution across complex distributed systems. The role owns QA strategy and delivery, scales automation, and drives non-production environment andtestdata readiness so teams can release confidently and on time.

What you have

Key Responsibilities

• Define and govern program-level E2E testing scope, entry/exit criteria, risk-based design, cross-team orchestration, status reporting, and remediation.

• Lead multi-application and partner integrations, dependencies, cross-domain scenarios, and release-levelsign-offs.

• Establish dashboards and operating rhythms for preparation, execution, triage, and RCA.

• Build reliable and maintainable test suites for regression, smoke, and feature validation.

• Embed automation into sprint workflows and mentor SDETs and QA engineers on framework patterns and test design.

• Own non-production environment readiness and test data readiness for E2E scenarios.

• Coordinate with product owners, scrum masters, engineering leads, and leadership on status, risks, and decisions.

Required Qualifications

• 3 - 8 years in Software QA Engineering withcomplex-programdelivery experience.

• 2+ years leading E2E test programs across multiple applications and partners.
• 2+yearsdeveloping, executing, andmaintainingautomation frameworks for web services and database testing.

• 1 - 5 years of hands-on UI/API/service test automation, framework design, and CI/CD integration.

• Experience with multi-year QA roadmaps and program-level test strategies.

• Proven stakeholder collaboration, communication of risks andsign-offs, E2E/UAT coordination, test environment and data pipeline leadership.
• Hands-on experience with open-source test automation tools such as Karate,SOATest, Selenium, or similar.Experience with GitHub, Bitbucket, Splunk, Postman, andMabltools.
• Ability to provide QA sign-off, RCA recommendations, risk-based testing, test approach governance, quality deliverables,accuratereporting, and risk/issue management.
  
  Preferred Qualifications

• ExpertiseinSAFeand Scrum.

• Test automation and process optimization framework design and implementation.

• Experience with GitHub, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Splunk, Postman, andMabl.

• Hands-on coding with Java/Javascript/Selenium/BDD automation frameworks.

• Exploratory testing, JIRA/MTM, Zephyr/HPQ, distributed QA project delivery, service virtualization, test data management, risk assessment, CI/CD, Lean DevOps, and financial/move money/payment/trading domain experience.