Director, Quality Assurance

Aera Technology is the pioneer and market leader in decision intelligence, transforming how the world's leading enterprises make and execute decisions. Using Aera, an agent that understands how businesses operate, providing recommendations in real time, taking action, and continuously learning from every outcome, the world's largest and leading companies gain the power to optimize and automate decisions at scale, driving greater efficiency, intelligence, and sustainability. Recognized by IDC as a leader in decision intelligence and cited by Gartner in its Market Guide for Decision Intelligence, we're the trusted choice of global market leaders. Aera Technology is at the forefront of the agentic revolution.This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-growth, AI-driven organization and shape the quality strategy for a revolutionary enterprise platform.

As Director, Quality Assurance, you will bring a deep sense of commitment and purpose to building world-class, reliable, and intelligentproducts.You will lead a global QA organization responsible for validating and certifying complex distributed systems and AI-enabled solutions that power decision automation for global enterprises. You'll partner closely with product, engineering, and data science teams to ensure that AI platform capabilities meet the highest standards of accuracy, safety, and performance.

• • Quality Visionary. You define quality not just in terms of bugs found, but in terms of trust, user experience, and measurable business value.
• AI Fluent. You understand how to test and certify AI-powered platforms, including LLM-based systems, generative components, and agentic workflows.
• Automation Leader. You drive large-scale automation initiatives, leveraging AI-assisted testing, self-healing frameworks, and intelligent validation pipelines.
• Strategic Collaborator. You influence design and product direction through data-driven insights, guiding cross-functional teams to release with confidence.
• Mentor and Builder. You attract, coach, and develop top QA talent across geographies — fostering technical excellence, curiosity, and innovation.

• • Own end-to-end product quality across multiple product lines and global engineering teams (US, India, Romania).
• Design and implement a modern QA strategy for AI-driven platforms. Lead the development of AI-assisted test automation frameworks, leveraging machine learning for element detection, autonomous test generation, and self-healing scripts.
• Establish AI-powered testing pipelines integrated into CI/CD workflows, using LLMs for test case creation, synthetic data generation, and intelligent anomaly detection.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to certify the platform, ensuring reliability and fairness.
• Oversee day-to-day operations of manual, automation, and AI validation teams, ensuring consistent execution, visibility, and velocity.
• Define and track key quality metrics — including defect density, regression stability, release confidence, and AI validation benchmarks
• Drive innovation in generative test design, using LLMs and AI tools to expand test coverage, identify defect patterns, and accelerate regression validation.
• Maintain a hands-on technical presence (~30% of time) while spending 70% on leadership, mentorship, and execution oversight.
• Oversee release candidate validation, sign-off, and deployment certification for enterprise-scale releases.
• Continuously evaluate emerging AI testing and automation tools (e.g., testRigor, Testsigma, ACCELQ, Tricentis Testim, Mabl, Functionize, Rainforest QA) to ensure the organization remains at the forefront of intelligent quality engineering.
• Lead and mentor QA managers, SDETs, and test engineers globally — building a culture of collaboration, ownership, and excellence in delivery.

• • 14+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with at least 7 years in a leadership or management role.
• Deep expertise in test automation using Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG/JUnit, REST-Assured, JMeter, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, and MySQL.
• Proven experience designing and implementing test frameworks for complex, distributed, cloud-based systems.
• Strong understanding of AI testing principles — including data quality validation, prompt evaluation and testing AI platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AI-driven QA platforms such as testRigor, Testsigma, ACCELQ, Tricentis Testim, Mabl, Functionize, or Rainforest QA, with the ability to evaluate, adopt, and operationalize them at scale.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted test automation, self-healing frameworks, and generative test design using LLMs for scenario generation and coverage expansion.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, QA methodologies, and agile/scrum development; SAFe experience is a plus.
• Experience with test management tools such as JIRA, BrowserStack and TestRail.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence across product, engineering, and executive teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.

Why Aera

At Aera, you will define how intelligent systems are tested, validated, and trusted by enterprises worldwide. You'll lead a world-class QA organization that ensures our AI-driven decision automation platform operates with integrity, precision, and excellence.This is your opportunity to influence the next generation of AI quality engineering — combining automation, data science, and human insight to deliver products customers can rely on.

If you share our passion for building a sustainable, intelligent, and efficient world, you're in the right place. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, we're a series D start-up, with teams in Mountain View, San Francisco (California), Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), London (UK), Pune (India), and Sydney (Australia). So join us, and let's build this

Aera Technology is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Benefits Summary

At Aera Technology, we strive to support our Aeranauts and their loved ones through different stages of life with a variety of attractive benefits, and great perks. In addition to offering a competitive salary and company stock options, we have other great benefits available. You'll find comprehensive medical, Group Medical Insurance, Term Insurance, Accidental Insurance, paid time off, Maternity leave, and much more. We offer unlimited access to online professional courses for both professional and personal development, coupled with people manager development programs. We believe in a flexible working environment, to allow our Aeranauts to perform at their best, ensuring a healthy work-life balance. When you're working from the office, you'll also have access to a fully-stocked kitchen with a selection of snacks and beverages.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.