Senior Test Manager - Enterprise Testing COE
Actively Reviewing the ApplicationsAxis Max Life Insurance
Job Description
About Axis Max Life
Axis Max Life Insurance Limited, formerly known as Max Life Insurance Company Ltd., is a joint venture between Max Financial Services Limited (“MFSL”) and Axis Bank Limited.
Axis Max Life Insurance offers comprehensive protection and long-term savings life insurance solutions through its multi-channel distribution, including agency and third-party distribution partners. It has built its operations over two decades through a need-based sales process, a customer-centric approach to engagement and service delivery, and a well-trained human capital.
Axis Max Life has been consistently ranked among the best workplaces by the GPTW Institute, reflecting its commitment to creating a positive and empowering work environment.
#ComeAsYouAre LGBTQIA+ and PwD candidates of all ages are encouraged to apply
Job Description
JOB SUMMARY:
Responsible for providing thought-leadership in setting up and execution of Quality Engineering as a Center of Excellence in the enterprise and drive the Quality assurance KPIs, reduced cost factor and goals for all Digital/technology software solutions to optimize business operations & improved customer experience. Lead the overall practice with Industry best processes, tools, methodologies & governance for ensuring qualitative outcomes.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Owning Digital testing services CoE with full stack testing needs e.g. functional and non-functional (Web, Mobile, API, etc.).
- Setup Digital Testing & Automation practice and operational delivery with people, tools & processes
- Create and implement best practice quality vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve technology to boost business performance
- Ensure that quality strategies and processes are in place to meet business objectives and operational needs in terms of price, quality and delivery targets and which enables the company to function and compete effectively in the market and in a sustained manner
- Using automation reduced cost and speed-to-market with improved accuracy / reliability.
- Prepare the annual Quality budget and forecasts and all Capital / OPEX Expenditure proposals as well as ensuring compliance with legal standards. Manage the budget from identification to completion of projects
- Work collaboratively, negotiate and engage with key stakeholders to facilitate delivery and compliance with the quality strategy
- On-boarding of testing resources basis comprehensive evaluation
- Define Testing Strategy covering environments, test data management, reporting, selection of tools & quality gates
- Define, measure & Improve Testing related KPIs for functional (SIT, regression, and Sanity testing) and non-functional testing (Performance, stress, & soak).
- Define methods for defect lifecycle management & analyzing for predictability
- Work closely with Digital Technology owners & horizontal teams for business goals, KPIs, roadmap, improvement plan and progress.
- Continuously innovate in Testing domain with new tools & methodologies e.g. Shift Left, regression automation, remove redundancy, etc.
- Mange relationships with all key stakeholders in Product Management & IT
- Proven leadership and management skills with the ability to optimize team
- Mentor the testing community on processes, knowledge management and skill development.
- Ensure comprehensive test automation coverage & engagement model
Measures of Success
Quality releases of software into production
- Increase in predictability of a quality delivery
- Lowering of defect leakage between environments
- Faster go-to market with agile testing approach
- Automation to reduce cost and improve customer experience.
Key competencies/skills required
Overall 15-20 years of experience in QA domain.
- Experience of setting up agentic testing practice in CoE
- At least 6 years of hands-on experience as an automation leader with CoE expertise.
- At least 5 years of experience in a test lead role, leading QA for multiple/complex projects
- At least 4 years of experience in creating Test Strategy and its execution
- Well versed with testing approaches like TDD, BDD, End to End testing, WhiteBox, BlackBox testing, V model
- Experienced on tools like Selenium, Cucumber, Katalon, QTP, Appium, Postman, Browserstack, JIRA
- Experience of operating in both agile and waterfall development methodologies
- Experienced in leveraging DevOps for continuous testing
- Well versed with Industry trends of delivering modern QA practice
State
Home Office
Branch
Gurugram -90C
Department
Digital Technology
Function
Automation & Quality Assurance - COE
Posted On
20-Feb-2026
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