QE Lead [T500-29842]

About CIBC:
CIBC is a leading North American bank, with a history of more than 150 years of living our purpose - to help make your ambition a reality. Client relationships are at the center of our strategy, and our growth is enabled by a highly engaged and connected global team. From digital banking to community impact, we’re proud to drive progress for our clients and our communities. Recognized for our culture, award-winning innovation and community investment, CIBC continues to evolve by putting people and progress at the centre of everything we do.
About CIBC India:
CIBC India is a technology and operations hub in Hyderabad, where you’ll be part of our highly engaged and global team, and play a central role in supporting our growth. Whether you’re driving innovation in digital banking or streamlining client onboarding, you’ll be part of a culture recognized for excellence and investment in people. At CIBC India, people and progress are at the center of what we do: you’ll develop skills, collaborate with industry leaders, and see your ideas realized in a culture that values progress and belonging. We provide cutting-edge resources, ongoing learning, and a supportive environment where people come first. If you’re ready to create meaningful change and build your future, CIBC India is where your ambition meets opportunity.
What CIBC India Offers:
At CIBC India, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career that goes well beyond your compensation.
We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including competitive fixed pay, performance-based incentive programs, a family-first benefits program, employer contributions for your retirement, attractive time off and leave offerings, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.
Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients worldwide
We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day, a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.
What You’ll Be Doing (position summary):
The QE Solution Lead is accountable for leading the quality engineering solutions team. This role ensures the delivery of high-quality solutions by developing tools and solutions that will be used by the QA team for executing comprehensive test strategies, plans, and automation scripts, while driving continuous improvement in QA/QE processes and standards. The incumbent plays a key role in technical evaluation, solution design feedback, and implementation of emerging automation and AI-based testing approaches to expedite delivery, improve quality, and reduce costs. At CIBC India we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (including on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.
How You’ll Succeed (responsibilities): Operational Excellence:
Develop and manage quality engineering tools and solutions. Examples include tools the QA teams can use to expedite testing, dashboards to report stats and metrics, AI based solutions for work efficiency, etc.
May be involved in direct project delivery on strategic projects involved in team transformation. Develop, publish, manage, and execute test strategies, test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, automation scripts, status reports, defect logs, and exit reports.
Identify and obtain required test data and test environments to support testing activities.
Develop, publish, and execute testing estimates and manage financials related to testing.
Project & Team Leadership:
If involved in a project, manage and lead the testing activities for a workstream, program, or multiple projects/initiatives.
Lead a team of quality engineers working on solutions, including capacity management, performance management, productivity, quality assurance, and compliance with project requirements.
Ensure adherence to QA/QE standards and drive the implementation of new standards.
Continuous Improvement:
Recognize and identify areas for improvement in policies, processes, procedures, and tools/methodologies; implement continuous improvements.
Track and report QA/QE metrics and KPIs such as velocity and defect slippage.
Identify, manage, and remediate noncompliance items and deviations.
Technical Evaluation & Quality Engineering:
Provide input, feedback, and challenge technical designs, assess impacts to testing based on technical details, and develop QA automation solutions.
Identify and implement automation, AI, or emerging solutions to expedite testing, improve quality, and reduce costs.
Quality Assurance:
Apply extensive knowledge of software quality assurance activities, tasks, tools, and techniques to evaluate new or enhanced systems and software tools for adherence to functionality and quality requirements.
Quality Management & Problem Solving:
Utilize quality management methods, tools, and techniques to create and support an environment that meets organizational needs.
Apply problem-solving approaches, tools, and techniques to recognize, anticipate, and resolve organizational, operational, or process problems.
People Management:
Set appropriate context when assigning work to ensure that individuals’ roles support the achievement of the business unit’s priorities and CIBC’s overall goals.
Build team and individual capabilities by providing development opportunities such as job shadowing, special projects, and training.
Manage performance by providing fair and accurate formal and informal feedback, identifying and removing obstacles to performance, and explaining how performance expectations align with business priorities.
Create a positive work environment and act as an effective role model by championing CIBC’s mission, vision, and values.
Ensure compliance with policies, standards, guidelines, and controls by applying the policies and controls fairly and consistently so employees understand what to expect.
Hire the right people in the right jobs to align individual capabilities with job requirements and business unit goals.
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
Collaborates with peers, project managers, developers, and business analysts both inside and outside the work unit to identify, discuss, and resolve issues related to testing and quality engineering.
Interacts regularly with development teams, product owners, and external vendors to establish and monitor service level agreements, define service requirements, and ensure the delivery of quality solutions.
Works closely with stakeholders to communicate status, metrics, and remediation plans for noncompliance and deviations.
COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS/RESPONSIBILITIES:
As an employee of CIBC, the incumbent must comply with all applicable CIBC and Line of Business policies, standards, guidelines, and controls.
As a manager of people, this job must ensure all employees within the business unit comply with all applicable CIBC and Line of Business policies, standards, guidelines, and controls.
AUTHORITIES/DECISION RIGHTS:
As a key contributor to the business unit, this job has the authority to recommend changes to business processes in order to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.
As a manager of people, this job has the authority to assign tasks to employees within their span of control, select individuals for hire, assess individual performance, make employee compensation decisions, and take disciplinary measures up to and including termination.
JOB DIMENSIONS:
Responsible for managing QE solutions and testing activities across multiple projects, programs, or workstreams within the organization.
Directly manages a team of quality engineers, overseeing their capacity, performance, and development.
Accountable for the delivery of testing outcomes impacting the quality and timeliness of project deliverables.
Provides advisory and support services for the adoption of automation and AI-based testing solutions across the unit.
Experience: Who You Are (skills/qualifications):
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
7+ years of industry and job experience in software quality engineering, quality assurance, and test management. 2-3 years of managerial experience.
Extensive experience in evaluating systems, software packages, and tools for functionality and quality requirements.
Strong understanding of quality management methods, tools, and techniques.
Must Have Skills:
Experience in multiple automation testing frameworks (e.g. Robot Framework, Appium, Selenium, Cyress, Playwright)
Experience in API testing frameworks (e.g. Postman, SoapUI, Parasoft, RestAPI)
Experience in mocking server responses and stubbing d

Work arrangement
Hybrid