Senior Engineering Manager

Job description

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast. Job Summary This job manages a team of experienced engineers, cultivating a culture of innovation and professional development. It oversees the design and update of software and web applications, ensuring alignment with business goals. Collaborating cross-functionally, it sets project requirements and timelines, manages the release process, and monitors adherence to standards and budgets. It manages stakeholders, communications, and tracks industry trends, developing proposals for technological enhancements to drive continuous improvement and team expertise. Job Description Function: Freewheel | Global Quality Engineering  FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements from around the world.  Freewheel, a Comcast company, is seeking a Director, SDET to lead the global quality engineering organization across all Freewheel platforms. This leader will drive test strategy, automation architecture, and quality engineering practices, ensuring reliable and scalable releases across distributed systems. The role requires strong technical leadership while partnering closely with global product, engineering, and operations stakeholders to embed quality at every stage of the software lifecycle.  Location: Chennai  Key Job Responsibilities  Quality Engineering Strategy & Delivery  • Test strategy: Own and evolve the enterprise-wide QA strategy, ensuring consistent quality across Freewheel’s diverse product portfolio.  • Automation architecture: Define and implement a robust unified automation framework supporting UI, API, and Data validation.  • Environment strategy: Drive test environment planning, provisioning, and reliability to support large-scale distributed systems.  • Predictable delivery: Align QA execution with agile release cycles, proactively managing risks and dependencies.  • Metrics & governance: Establish KPIs for defect leakage, automation coverage, and release readiness, with transparent reporting.  Technical Leadership  • Raise QA standards: Champion excellence in test design, automation frameworks, performance testing, and observability.  • Scalable validation: Ensure QA systems are built for scale, resilience, and high availability in revenue-critical environments.  • Innovation: Introduce modern validation techniques including contract testing, service virtualization, and chaos testing.  • Mentorship: Provide coaching and strategic direction to QA managers and teams (2-4 teams comprising 40&#43; engineers).  Organizational Leadership  • Global alignment: Represent QA initiatives across Freewheel globally, ensuring strong alignment on priorities and strategy.  • Cross-functional partnerships: Collaborate with Product, UX, Engineering Ops, Data and Engineering to embed quality into every stage of development.  • Talent development: Hire, grow, and retain high-performing SDETs and QA managers, fostering a strong leadership pipeline.  • Culture building: Cultivate a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning across the QA organization.  • Drive performance excellence through clear expectations, differentiation, and promotion readiness.  • Build organizational depth through thoughtful succession planning across both technical and managerial career tracks.  • Cultivate a culture of ownership, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.  Minimum Qualifications & Requirements  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related technical field.  • 15&#43; years of experience in software engineering, with deep expertise in automation and distributed systems.  • 7&#43; years of leadership experience managing QA teams and developing managers.  • Strong background in test automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium) and backend validation using modern languages (Python, TypeScript, Golang, Java).  • Experience with API testing, contract validation, and service virtualization.  • Proven expertise in performance and scalability testing for distributed microservices architectures.  <