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This role is responsible for driving the organization-wide quality strategy, building high-performing teams, and ensuring the delivery of reliable, scalable, and high-quality products in a fast-paced SaaS environment. The ideal candidate combines technical depth, leadership excellence, and strategic thinking to establish quality engineering as a core competitive advantage.\nKey Responsibilities\nDrive and evolve the organization-wide quality engineering strategy for our cloud-native SaaS platform\nLead and standardize quality platforms, automation toolchains, and engineering best practices across teams in collaboration with platform and engineering groups\nEstablish and govern quality gates, release processes, and reporting standards to ensure consistent delivery quality\nDefine and track quality metrics and KPIs (e.g., defect leakage, coverage, release confidence) to drive continuous improvement\nBuild, mentor, and scale high-performing quality engineering teams across multiple pods\nDrive hiring, org design, career development, and performance management for the QE function\nLead the evolution of scalable automation frameworks and quality platforms across UI, API, and integration layers\nDefine 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