Lead Software Quality Process Engineer

Company Description PEOPLEplus Professional Services Pvt. Ltd. is a leading resource support company in the IT sector, partnering with top-tier high technology organizations. The company focuses on specialized domains such as Embedded systems, Telecom, Storage, DSP, Wireless, Multimedia, EDA, and VLSI. As a trusted resourcing partner, PEOPLEplus provides skilled professionals and project support to drive innovation and delivery excellence. Team members gain exposure to cutting-edge technologies, diverse client environments, and complex engineering challenges. The organization values professional growth, technical expertise, and long-term career development.

Role Description

1. Role Overview

Functional Software Quality Process Lead engineer responsible for defining, deploying, and institutionalizing enterprise-wide Software Quality frameworks and processes across connected ecosystems. Drives Built-in Quality by embedding quality into engineering lifecycle, ensuring predictable, scalable, secure and reliable software systems. Acts as a high-impact individual contributor influencing global engineering teams and business units.

1. Key Responsibilities

• Define and institutionalize Software Quality Framework across devices, gateways, cloud, mobile and connectivity layers.

• Ensure end-to-end traceability across software–firmware–cloud–application systems.

• Drive risk-based engineering and quality decision frameworks for IoT systems.

• Embed Built-in Quality in SDLC aligned to Agile / SAFe / DevOps / V-models.

• Enable CI/CD quality gates, shift-left practices and defect prevention strategies.

• Address system constraints: resource limitations, scalability, network variability and backward compatibility.

• Establish proactive quality metrics and leading indicators.

• Build leadership dashboards enabling visibility and predictive risk management.

• Institutionalize RCA, CAPA and closed-loop improvement mechanisms.

• Drive learnings from field issues, outages, interoperability and security incidents.

• Align cross-functional teams: embedded, cloud, mobile, architecture, cybersecurity and field quality.

• Influence stakeholders without authority to drive adoption of quality practices.

1. Candidate Profile

• 12+ years in Software Engineering / Quality / System Excellence, preferably in IoT or connected systems.

• Strong hands-on background in development.

• Experience in Agile, SAFe, waterfall, DevOps and global engineering setups.

• Expertise in embedded systems, cloud platforms and IoT communication protocols.

• Strong understanding of SDLC, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps quality frameworks.

• Experience with quality KPIs, reliability engineering and defect prevention.

• Familiarity with tools like SonarQube and structured problem-solving (RCA, 8D, CAPA, FMEA).

1. Success Measures

• Adoption of Software Quality Framework across business units.

• Reduction in defect leakage and field failures.

• Improved product reliability and release predictability.

• Strong visibility through quality dashboards and leading indicators.

1. Role Positioning

Positioned as a Functional Software Quality Transformation lead, focusing on scaling consistent

• engineering practices and improving end-to-end product quality outcomes.