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You will lead an established QA organisation of 15+ engineers embedded across product squads, and you will report directly to the CTO / VP Engineering & Product Development as part of the engineering leadership team.\n\nQualification :\n\nB.E. / B.Tech / M.C.A. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline. Equivalent practical experience considered.\n\nWhat you will own :\n\nQuality strategy and accountability :\n\n- Own the end-to-end quality strategy for all Delta6Labs platforms - exchanges, wallets, trading systems, and white-label deployments and translate it into a roadmap with clear quarterly outcomes.\n\n- Define and enforce release-readiness criteria, entry and exit gates, and go/no-go authority. 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