Your opportunity
Schwab Description
At Charles Schwab, our purpose is simple: we champion client’s goals with passion and integrity. Guided by honesty, mutual respect and a commitment to doing what’s right, we bring innovation, education, and service together to help shape financial futures. Our people are the foundation of our success – they approach their work with curiosity and collaboration, coming together to create solutions that make a meaningful impact for clients and communities. As we expand into India, we are bringing this same culture of inclusion, learning, and opportunity to new talent. Joining us means becoming part of a global team where your work matters and your future can take shape.
Schwab India Description
Our Hyderabad location is central to Schwab’s growth, bringing together talented people and technology to drive innovation, scale and efficiency. Here, you will work alongside teams who create solutions that support millions of clients every day. The work you do is more than daily operations – it’s a chance to experiment, learn, and build within a values-driven, supportive environment. This is a unique opportunity to be part of our early growth phase and shape something new, backed by the stability and strength of a Fortune 500 company. Your impact begins on day one, and your contributions will help define our future in the region
Organization / Role Description
The Sr.Manager, Quality Engineering role is a people leadership position within Schwab Data India responsible for building, leading, and developing a high-performing QA team that supports enterprise data engineering initiatives. This role partners closely with development managers, architects, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure strong quality practices, effective test strategy, and reliable execution across a portfolio of data and platform deliveries.
As part of the OneSchwab/OneGCC model, this leader will drive quality outcomes through team leadership, delivery planning, coaching, operational discipline, and continuous improvement across manual and automated testing. The role is ideal for a people manager who is passionate about developing talent, strengthening engineering quality, and building a collaborative QA culture in a fast-paced, regulated enterprise environment.
What you have
Key Responsibilities
QA Team Leadership & Delivery Quality
• Team Leadership & Development and Delivery: Build, lead, and develop a high-performing QA team by providing coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development support.
• Test Strategy & Planning: Define and maintain test strategy across an assigned portfolio, plan testing activities and release cycles, and ensure appropriate test coverage for new development, enhancements, and production fixes.
• Quality Execution Oversight: Oversee functional, regression, UAT validation, and defect management activities to ensure timely, high-quality delivery across the QA portfolio.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with product owners, development teams, and business stakeholders from PI planning through release to align priorities, communicate risks, and provide QA status and signoff.
• Automation & Process Improvement: Drive adoption of automation, reusable test assets, and engineering best practices to improve quality, efficiency, and repeatability across the team.
• Operational Risk Management: Proactively manage risks, defect leakage trends, and delivery issues that may impact quality, scope, or schedule, and ensure timely escalation and resolution.
Ideal Candidate Profile
Required Qualifications
Technical Expertise and Educational Requirements
Ideal Candidate Profile:
• 20+ years of overall experience with significant experience in Quality Engineering, Data Warehouse, ETL, or enterprise data platforms.
• Proven experience leading QA teams, including coaching, work allocation, performance management, and developing team capability.
• Experience managing test strategy, execution, and release readiness across multiple projects or a portfolio in an Agile environment.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to influence stakeholders, resolve issues, and build effective partnerships across product, engineering, and business teams.
Required Experience
• Strong experience in Quality Engineering leadership for Data Warehouse and ETL applications, preferably including IICS or PowerCenter environments.
• Experience defining test strategy, managing test planning and execution, and driving functional, regression, and UAT validation across complex delivery portfolios.
• Hands-on understanding of SQL, Python, Unix/shell scripting, and cloud technologies such as GCP to effectively lead and support technical QA teams.
• Working knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD tools such as Bamboo, Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitHub Actions, along with automation practices relevant to enterprise QA.
• Experience in Agile delivery using tools such as Jira or Rally, with strong understanding of software development lifecycle and release coordination.
• Demonstrated strength in defect triage, root-cause analysis, risk management, and communicating test status and outcomes to stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, lead through ambiguity, and maintain high standards of quality and accountability across a team.
▪ Institutes robust methods to optimize change coordination
▪ Enhances data analysis processes and procedures to drive operational efficiency
▪ Optimizes methods for integrating, consolidating, and cleansing data with compliance
▪ Establishes comprehensive methods to manage and enhance data assets
▪ Leads innovative data modeling methods and optimizes processes
▪ Implements advanced QA testing methodologies and drives robust compliance verification
Skills and Attributes
• People Leadership: Builds strong teams through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and active talent development.
• Quality Mindset: Drives a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement across manual and automated testing practices.
• Execution & Planning: Balances delivery priorities, resource planning, and release commitments effectively in a dynamic environment.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Communicates clearly, builds trust across teams, and partners effectively to address risks, issues, and quality outcomes.
• Continuous Improvement: Identifies opportunities to strengthen automation, streamline QA processes, and improve overall team effectiveness.
Preferred Qualifications
Hands on ETL development – Mid-level
Job Sub-Family Specific Competencies
Fostering Innovation - Developing, sponsoring or supporting new and improved methods, products, procedures, or technologies
Fostering Teamwork (PL) - As a team leader, interest, skill, and success in getting groups to learn to work together cooperatively
Influencing Others - Ability to gain others support for ideas, proposals, projects, and solutions
Managing Performance (PL) – Taking responsibility for one’s employees’ performance, by setting clear goals and expectations, tracking progress against the goals, ensuring feedback and addressing performance issues promptly
Strategic Thinking – Analyzing an organization’s competitive position and developing a clear and compelling vision of what the organization needs for success in the future
Data Engineering Fundamentals – Strategically managing and operationalizing data pipelines and storage systems for data mining, analytics, and machine learning, prioritizing compliance, security, and scalability
What’s in it for you
At Schwab India, you’re empowered to shape your future. We support your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture rooted in trust and collaboration – so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our benefits are designed to care for your wellbeing, your family, and your long-term financial security.
Our base benefits, wellbeing, and total rewards include:
- Competitive compensation and retirement programs including Employee Provident Fund (EPF), Gratuity, and optional National Pension System (NPS) contributions
- Robust Paid Time Off, including annual/privilege leave, sick and casual leave, public holidays, maternity/paternity leave, and more
- Education assistance for continued learning to help you grow
- Comprehensive medical insurance with Outpatient Department (OPD) services, including vaccination, pharmacy, dental, and vision coverage
- Annual reimbursement for health check-ups and mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Childcare (creche) reimbursement for eligible employees
- Transportation and meal benefits that support your day-to-day work
- Group life, personal accident, and critical illness insurance
