# Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Pune, Maharashtra
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist.

In this role, you will:

**Quality Leadership & Strategy** Own the Quality Engineering strategy for your area, aligned to product outcomes, delivery plans, and risk appetite. Define and evolve testing practices, principles, and standards. Establish measurable quality objectives and drive continuous improvement.

**Automation Architecture & Engineering** Act as Automation Architect: design scalable, maintainable automation frameworks and patterns. Set engineering standards for test code. Build and optimize CI/CD-integrated automation pipelines. Reduce flakiness and improve signal quality.

**Test Approach & Delivery Excellence** Define test strategies for epics/features. Lead quality risk assessments and ensure appropriate coverage. Support non-functional testing approaches.

**Generative AI & Agentic AI Exposure (Quality Enablement)** Bring practical exposure to Generative AI and agentic AI concepts. Evaluate and pilot AI-assisted testing capabilities.

**Practice Enrichment & Continuous Improvement** Introduce and embed modern testing techniques. Drive root-cause analysis for quality issues and implement preventative actions. Define quality metrics and dashboards.

**Requirements** Typical tools & Technologies: Languages: Java / JavaScript / Python UI automation: Playwright / Cypress / Selenium API testing: Playwright/REST-assured / Postman / Karate BDD (optional): Cucumber CI/CD: Jenkins / Stratus / GCP Reporting: Allure / Extent / custom dashboards Test management: Jira/Zephyr

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Selenium
- Postman
- Karate
- Cucumber
- Jenkins
- Stratus
- GCP
- Allure
- Extent
- Jira
- Zephyr

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