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on-prem, cloud or hybrid - as model-mixing and constant provider churn become the market norm.\n\nOwn technical roadmap decisions for accelerators such as the Agentic Foundry (a 25-blueprint reference matrix) and the curated, swap-ready tooling ecosystem around each archetype.\n\nLead Evaluation-Driven Development\nBuild and govern eval suites - ground-truth Q&A sets, LLM-as-judge rubrics, frozen baselines - that gate every release rather than validate it after the fact.\n\nOwn trajectory grading, red/purple/blue-team probes and safety attestations for agentic and generative systems, and drift monitoring and fairness audits for classical ML.\n\nTranslate evaluation results into release decisions: eval-threshold gates, red-team severity floors, canary and shadow deployments, and rollback rehearsals.\n\nBring evaluation-driven development practice into client engagements - showing, not just telling, how a live harness beats a one-time audit.\n\nOwn Presales and Client Proposals\nRespond to RFPs, RFIs and client proposals across both engines, translating client requirements into a defensible solution architecture and commercial structure.\n\nArchitect engagements across the full ladder - AI QA Assessment, AI QA Transformation, Managed AI QA - and fast-starts such as the LLM Health Check, Agent Stress Test and Compliance Sprint.\n\nBuild estimates, staffing plans and technical win themes that hold up under client and internal scrutiny, across client-managed, risk-reward and Zensar-managed commercial models.\n\nPresent and Articulate Value to Clients\nPresent the ZenseAI.QI and ZenseAI.AssureAI value proposition directly to client stakeholders - from QA Directors and Heads of AI/ML Engineering to CTOs, Chief Risk Officers and Chief AI Officers - adapting the narrative to each audience.\n\nLead client workshops and technical walkthroughs, including guiding a CIO through the Agentic Foundry in a single session.\n\nBuild and deliver executive trust scorecards and portfolio risk heat maps that make the assurance story board-ready.\n\nRepresent Zensar in Client Captives for Sales\nPresent live in client captive sessions and sales pursuits as the senior technical voice for Quality Intelligence, alongside account and sales leadership.\n\nRun and narrate proof-of-concept demonstrations that turn a client's stated risk into a small, credible proof - the practice's proof-first approach to closing.\n\nRepresent the practice at partner and industry forums as the practice's thought leadership and pipeline develop.\n\nBuild Practice IP and Mentor the Next Generation\nContribute reusable accelerators, reference architectures and industry packs across BFSI, TMT, and Manufacturing & Retail back into the practice's IP base.\n\nMentor and help build out the practice's emerging AI-specialist roles - Prompt Engineer, LLM-Eval Engineer, Agent Architect, Trajectory Eval Engineer, Knowledge/RAG Engineer, AI Security Analyst and Adversarial Red/Blue Team Lead.\n\nSupport GenAI and AI-enablement training for QI associates across the practice.\n\n Must-Have\nApproximately 17-21 years of overall technology experience, including a substantial, hands-on foundation in Quality Engineering / Test Engineering - automation architecture, test strategy and the full software testing lifecycle - not AI experimentation layered on top of a thin QE background.\n\nWorking architectural knowledge of agentic AI systems: multi-agent orchestration, tool use, memory, and the operational risks specific to agents - 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