Quality Engineering Manager

ARE YOU READY to step up to the New and take your technology expertise to the next level? There is never a typical day at Accenture, but that’s why we love it here! This is an extraordinary opportunity to build a rewarding career at Accenture Technology. Working in highly collaborative teams for world-leading clients, we’ll nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. Whatever your work and life goals, we’ll help you achieve them. Sooner
 

Accenture Technology – QE is an exciting place to be! Accenture helps companies rotate to New IT with quality services that drive continuous quality and efficiency and shape their digital future. We offer entire breadth and depth of Quality services across broad array of applications, digital technologies and industries delivered under flexible business arrangements. With 1000+ clients served globally and 30+ delivery centers, there will be many opportunities for you to help drive greater productivity and shift to continuous testing all while managing digital transformations.

Role Summary

Leads the quality engineering strategy across ARTs and value streams. Defines enterprise-level quality objectives, aligns automation, performance, security, and reliability practices to PI goals, and drives adoption of DevSecOps and GenAI (MCP Servers, Copilot) across delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Set QE strategy across programs; ensure alignment with PI objectives and business outcomes.

• Govern enterprise metrics: defect leakage, DORA, rework hours, automation ROI.

• Lead teams of SDETs and QE specialists across Agile Teams and Agile Release Trains.

• Embed automation, performance, and security testing into the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.

• Scale frameworks and tools (Playwright, REST Assured, Tricentis Tosca, JMeter, etc.).

• Integrate GenAI tools (MCP servers, Copilot, etc.) into SDLC for automation, data generation, and defect analysis.

• Mentor QE talent and lead Communities of Practice.

• Partner with Release Train Engineers, Solution Managers, and Architects to ensure testability and observability.

• Influence client stakeholders (Directors/VPs) on quality strategy, metrics, and outcomes.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or in a related discipline 

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in QE/SDET leadership.

• Proven delivery of QE across large Agile Release Trains or programs.

• Hands-on in modern automation frameworks, performance/security tools, and CI/CD/CT.

• Strong knowledge of SAFe 6.0 and Lean Portfolio Management practices.

• Experience with metrics dashboards (e.g., Power BI, Azure DevOps, etc).

• Eligible for reliability clearance

NICE TO HAVE:

• Executive presence; able to influence senior client leaders.

• Leadership in ambiguity; builds consensus across teams and vendors.

• Strong coaching/mentoring ability.

• Communicates technical risks in business terms.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.

The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here:

Role Location                                    Annual Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario                                   $99,450 to $209,900

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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