​​Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering Senior

Your opportunity

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.

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.

What you have

Key Responsibilities

At Schwab, you are empowered to make an impact on your career. Innovative thinking meets disciplined engineering as we challenge the status quo and strengthen the quality of digital experiences that serve our clients.

This Senior Manager role will lead quality engineering and SDET practices for business-critical enterprise applications. The role combines hands-on automation architecture with technical leadership, partnering across product, development, architecture, operations, and risk teams to build quality into every stage of delivery.

The ideal candidate is a pragmatic quality leader who can independently drive large-scale initiatives, modernize automation frameworks, coach engineers, and improve release confidence through measurable, risk-based testing.

AI-enabled quality engineering is a core expectation of this position. The leader will establish practical, governed use of AI agents and coding assistants to accelerate test design, framework development, end-to-end regression automation, failure analysis, and continuous quality improvement while maintaining human review, security, privacy, traceability, and reliability controls.

Required Qualification

• Drive quality strategy and successful execution for complex, business-critical programs, aligning test coverage, automation, release readiness, and quality outcomes with organizational objectives.

• Architect, develop, and evolve scalable UI and API automation frameworks using Playwright with JavaScript/TypeScript and Selenium with Java, applying reusable design patterns, reliable synchronization, test-data management, and actionable failure diagnostics.

• Establish an effective quality-engineering approach across functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, API, database, accessibility, compatibility, and non-functional testing, with appropriate use of exploratory and risk-based testing.

• Validate data integrity and backend processing through advanced SQL across Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL, including source-to-target reconciliation, stored procedure validation, and troubleshooting of complex application workflows.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and GitHub-based workflows; improve execution speed, stability, reporting, environment readiness, and defect traceability using modern test and quality-management tooling.

• Lead test planning, estimation, quality metrics, defect triage, root-cause analysis, release risk assessments, and production-quality reviews, distinguishing product defects from automation or environment instability.

• Guide and mentor SDETs and QA engineers, set coding and automation standards, conduct design and code reviews, and foster accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.

• Partner with geographically distributed product, engineering, architecture, DevOps, operations, compliance, and vendor teams to manage dependencies, resolve blockers, and deliver secure, resilient, and maintainable solutions.

• Contribute to long-term quality-engineering roadmaps, platform modernization, tooling decisions, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted testing while following data privacy and company-policy guardrails.
  • Define and lead an AI-enabled quality-engineering strategy, including the creation and governed use of specialized testing agents for requirement analysis, test-case generation, automation development, test-data preparation, code review, regression-suite maintenance, defect reproduction, and failure triage.
  • Build and maintain enterprise end-to-end regression suites and reusable test frameworks using Playwright, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Selenium, mabl, API automation, and AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude, with mandatory human validation of generated code, tests, assertions, and conclusions.
  • Create agent instructions, reusable prompts, repository context, tool integrations, and evaluation criteria that enable AI agents to consistently follow application architecture, coding standards, testing patterns, security controls, and quality gates.
  • Own GitHub engineering administration and governance for quality repositories, including repository structure, branching strategy, pull-request controls, access management, protected branches, secrets usage, dependency management, release tagging, reusable workflows, auditability, and quality dashboards.
  • Design, manage, and continuously improve CI/CD and test-execution pipelines across GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Bamboo, including pipeline-as-code, parallel and distributed execution, environment orchestration, test selection, artifact retention, reporting, failure notifications, and release gates.