Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering Senior

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

We’reseeking a Senior QA Engineer to lead program-level end-to-end test planning and execution across complex, distributed systems. This role owns QA strategy and delivery for high-impact initiatives,establishesand scales test automation, and drives non-production environment and test data readiness so teams can release confidently and on time.

What you have

Key Responsibilities

• Define and govern the program-level E2E testing approach, including scope, entry/exit criteria, risk-based design, orchestration, reporting, and remediation.

• Lead multi-application and partner integrations,coordinatingdependencies, cross-domain scenarios, and releasesign-offs.

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

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

• Embed automation in sprint workflows and mentor SDETs and QA engineers.

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

• Drive triage and escalation using TEMS workflows to unblock testing.

• Partner with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and engineering leads tocommunicatestatus, risks, and decisions.

Required Qualifications

• 8 - 10+ years in Software QA Engineering with a strong record of delivering quality in complex programs.

• 7+ years leading E2E test programs across multiple applications and partners.

• 6+ years hands-on test automation for UI/API/service testing, including framework design and CI/CD integration.

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

• Proven collaboration with business and technology stakeholders with clear communication of risks, decisions, andsign-offs.

• Experience leading E2E QA and UAT coordinators, test environments, and test data pipelines.

• Ability to provide QA sign-off and RCA recommendations forimplementations.

• Experience ensuring risk-based testing, agreed test approaches, high-quality deliverables,accuratereporting, and active risk/issue management.

• Ability to generate innovative QA solutions, improve audit compliance, organize/prioritize requirements, andoptimizesoftware testing and verification.

Preferred Qualifications

• ExpertiseinSAFeand Scrum.

• Test Automation and Process Optimization framework design and implementation.

• Ability to lead and inspire teams through complex and changing circumstances.

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

• Hands-on Java/Javascript/Selenium or BDD-driven automation frameworks.

• Deep understanding of exploratory testing practices.

• Working knowledge of JIRA/MTM, Zephyr/HPQ, service virtualization, test data management, CI/CD, Lean DevOps, and financial/move money/payment/trading domain experience.