Urgent Search Senior Manager

Job Description

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.

Learn more at ontic.co or follow us on LinkedIn.

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

- 13+ years of progressive experience in Quality Assurance/Quality Engineering, with at least 4+ years in leadership roles (managing managers or senior engineers).
- Strong background in SaaS and cloud-native platforms with experience in microservices & containerised environments.
- Proven expertise in automation frameworks and tools (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, REST

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

- Experience defining and driving QA strategy in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools to enhance quality insights.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate quality outcomes at executive and technical levels.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Guide junior engineers on test automation, agile QA processes, and instill a quality-first

engineering culture.

Ontic Benefits & Perks

- Competitive Salary
- Medical Benefits
- Internet Reimbursement
- Home Office Stipend
- Continued Education Stipend
- Festive & Achievement Celebrations
- Dynamic Office Environment
- Ontic is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that celebrates diversity. We do not discriminate against any individual based on race, color, sex, national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any factors protected by applicable law.

Don't meet every single requirement Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Ontic we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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