QA Lead India

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description: 

At Arcadis, we are leading the transformation of digital quality assurance across the globe. As our new QA Lead – India, you will play a pivotal role in empowering and guiding a team of talented QA engineers embedded in agile software development teams focused on transportation and asset management solutions. You will join a truly global QA leadership community, collaborating with fellow QA leads.

You will be responsible for technical excellence, people development, and fostering a culture of innovation and quality. You will ensure our QA engineers in India are set up for success, able to grow their skills, and are aligned with Arcadis' vision for pragmatic, fast feedback quality assurance. The ideal candidate will bring outstanding management skills, deep technical expertise, and a passion for coaching and collaboration in a multicultural and dynamic environment.

Role accountabilities:

• Team Leadership & Coaching: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of QA engineers, ensuring their growth in technical and professional skills, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
• Technical Excellence: Drive the adoption and usage of modern test automation tools and approaches (web is required, mobile is a strong plus). Set high standards for quality, coverage, and maintainability across teams using diverse technology stacks.
• Agile & Pragmatic QA: Guide teams in agile ways of working, making pragmatic decisions about what and how to test, and embedding risk-based testing, specification by example, and automation strategies in daily practice.
• Vision & Development: Contribute to and help shape the evolving QA strategy for Arcadis Digital Intelligence, bringing your vision for modern QA and continuous improvement to the global QA community.
• Collaboration & Communication: Act as a connector between QA, Developers, Product Owners, UX and other QA
• Leads. Ensure clear, proactive communication within your team and with global stakeholders.
• Quality Delivery: Ensure QA activities support the delivery of high-quality software products, with clear focus on customer/user value, traceability, and measurable outcomes.
• Flexibility & Global Mindset: Adapt to working in a global organization, occasionally supporting teams and stakeholders in different time zones, including the USA West Coast.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Leadership: Proven experience managing or leading QA/testing teams developing multiple different products, ideally in a distributed or global setting. Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and develop junior engineers.
• Technical Skills: Strong hands-on experience with test automation frameworks for web (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, etc.) and preferably mobile (Appium or similar). Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating test automation.
• QA Mindset: Deep knowledge of modern, pragmatic QA methodologies (risk-based testing, specification by example, test automation strategy). Able to balance automation, exploratory, and manual testing as needed.
• Agile Experience: Hands-on experience working in agile (Scrum/Kanban) product teams, with a focus on continuous delivery and short feedback loops.
• Communication: Excellent English communication skills, with the ability to coach junior team members and communicate effectively with developers, product owners, and international stakeholders.
• Vision & Innovation: A clear vision for developing QA maturity, able to contribute to global QA strategy and drive innovation within the QA hub.
• Flexibility: Willingness and ability to work across time zones as needed (especially with Europe and North America).
• Experience: The candidate has at least 10 years of experience in the field of Quality Assurance, including a minimum of 5 years as a team leader or manager.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.