Senior Manager - QA

Who We Are

Ontic provides software that helps corporate and government security teams identify threats, assess risk, and respond faster to keep people and organizations safe. Its Connected Intelligence Platform unifies security operations and data into a centralized system of record, enabling organizations to conduct risk assessments, protect against workplace violence, and manage threats and incidents more efficiently. Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies rely on Ontic to support security programs such as executive protection, threat intelligence, and corporate investigations.

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Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership – Own QA vision and strategy across multiple products and platforms, and services. Define and execute the QA strategy for the Ontic Platforms team, aligning quality objectives with product and organisational goals.
• Quality Governance – Establish and monitor quality KPIs (defect leakage, automation coverage, release readiness, etc.) to ensure visibility, accountability, and continuous improvement, into quality health, test coverage, defect trends, release readiness, and team velocity.
• Automation-First Approach – Drive automation adoption across UI, API, data, and performance layers, embedding tests into CI / CD pipelines for faster, high-quality releases.
• SaaS & Cloud Testing Excellence – Ensure reliability, scalability, and security of SaaS-based features, Drive cloud migration quality programs and AI-based solution validation with a focus on data accuracy, model explainability, and system performance.
• People & Team Management – Lead, mentor, and grow QA engineers and managers, fostering a collaborative and quality-driven engineering culture, creating clear career growth paths and coaching plans.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration – Partner with Product, Engineering, and DevOps to influence design, architecture, and release planning with a focus on end-to-end quality.
• Innovation & Efficiency – Champion the adoption of modern testing tools, frameworks, and best practices that improve coverage, speed, and developer productivity.
• Lead performance, security, and chaos testing initiatives across distributed microservice-based systems.
• Own vendor assessments, tool evaluations, and PoCs for test automation and AI / ML testing too

Preferred Qualifications

Assured, JMeter, Postman, TestNG, etc.) and scripting (Java, Python, or JavaScript).

engineering culture.

Ontic Benefits & Perks

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Skills Required

Microservices, Java, Saas, Selenium, TestNG, cypress , Postman, Python, Jmeter, Jenkins, Rest, Javascript, Automation Frameworks