TJX Companies
At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer.
TJX Companies
At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer.
Job Title: IT QE Manager - MPP
TJX is a Fortune 100 global retailer where technology powers millions of daily transactions across thousands of stores. At TJX India in Hyderabad, you will join a high‑impact engineering hub modernizing mission‑critical systems into a secure, resilient, Azure‑native ecosystem. We foster a culture rooted in engineering excellence, autonomy, and enterprise‑level influence.
What you will discover
- A leadership culture that values clarity, accountability, and technical depth
- A global technology organization collaborating across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia
- Opportunities to lead of TJX’s most strategic modernization initiatives
- A high‑trust, high‑performance environment where engineering leaders shape enterprise direction
As the Senior IT Engineering Manager – StoreWeb Modernization, you will lead engineering execution for of TJX’s most transformative programs. You will build and lead a high‑performing engineering team in India, define the modernization roadmap, and ensure the safe evolution of legacy StoreWeb systems into cloud‑native, API‑driven, observable, resilient services. You are both a people leader and a hands‑on technical influencer—your decisions will shape modernization velocity, engineering standards, and cross‑team execution.
What You Will Do
Lead the Quality Engineering function
- Own and evolve the QE strategy for the MPP portfolio, aligning testing practices to merchandise planning priorities, product roadmaps, engineering delivery, and business risk.
- Establish consistent MPP testing standards, test governance routines, quality gates, traceability expectations, and reusable assets across manual and automated testing teams.
- Guide test planning, estimation, scope, execution, defect management, release readiness, and test closure across concurrent MPP initiatives, enhancements, integrations, and production releases.
- Use risk-based testing to prioritize critical planning workflows, data movement, batch processing, integrations, reporting, cross-banner variations, and non-functional requirements.
Drive automation and engineering excellence
- Define and execute the MPP automation roadmap with emphasis on maintainability, reusable regression coverage, data-driven validation, and faster feedback for business-critical planning capabilities.
- Promote shift-left quality practices and integrate automated testing with CI/CD delivery pipelines, environment readiness, and deployment validation where appropriate.
- Guide teams in selecting fit-for-purpose approaches for UI, API, integration, database, batch, regression, end-to-end, performance, and production validation testing.
- Encourage responsible use of modern tooling, analytics, test data techniques, and AI-assisted testing to improve quality, speed, transparency, and learning across the MPP QE organization.
Govern quality and release readiness
- Establish meaningful quality measures and dashboards, including defect trends, test coverage, automation effectiveness, escaped defects, and release risk.
- Lead defect triage and root-cause analysis practices; ensure risks, dependencies, blockers, and mitigation actions are transparent.
- Provide evidence-based quality recommendations for release readiness and Go/No-Go decisions.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Operations, vendors, and merchandise planning business stakeholders to resolve systemic quality issues and improve delivery predictability.
Lead delivery in a SAFe Agile environment
- Provide QE leadership across Agile teams and large programs operating within a SAFe environment.
- Ensure QE is represented in PI Planning, backlog refinement, iteration planning, system demos, retrospectives, and Inspect and Adapt activities.
- Align capacity, test environments, test data, automation priorities, dependencies, and release commitments across teams.
- Balance strategic capability building with predictable execution of committed work.
Develop people and capability
- Lead a large or multi-team QE organization supporting the MPP portfolio, including manual testers, automation engineers, test leads, vendor partners, and matrixed delivery contributors.
- Set clear goals and expectations; conduct performance evaluations and provide timely, specific, and discreet feedback.
- Coach, mentor, and guide Associates on technical capability, delivery ownership, collaboration, and career development.
- Plan workforce capacity, recruitment,, succession, skills development, and assignment of work.
- Create an inclusive, accountable, learning-oriented environment in which team members can challenge assumptions and improve practices.
What You Will Need
Required qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Progressive experience in software quality assurance or quality engineering, including leadership of enterprise testing across complex merchandise planning, retail, data, integration, or platform-based applications.
- People management experience that includes goal setting, performance evaluations, coaching, mentoring, career development, and guiding teams in day-to-day delivery.
- Experience managing large, distributed, or multi-disciplinary teams with both manual and test automation capabilities.
- Demonstrated experience defining QA/QE strategy, testing practices, automation frameworks, governance routines, quality metrics, QE dashboards, and continuous improvement plans for enterprise portfolios.
- Hands-on understanding of functional, integration, system, regression, end-to-end, database, API, batch, performance, reporting, data reconciliation, and production validation approaches.
- Experience working in a SAFe Agile environment and partnering across multiple Agile teams or an Agile Release Train.
- Ability to communicate quality risks, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to technical, product, business, and senior leadership audiences.
- Strong analytical judgment, problem solving, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.
Preferred qualifications and experience
- Exposure to Mainframe applications and batch-oriented processing.
- Exposure to Oracle RPAS, merchandise financial planning, assortment planning, allocation, forecasting, or other enterprise retail planning platforms.
- Exposure to IBM TM1 / Planning Analytics.
- Experience with relational databases, SQL-based data validation, and testing of data-intensive integrations.
- Experience with retail, merchandising, merchandise planning, planning analytics, supply chain, finance planning, or other large-scale enterprise domains.
- Experience with test management, defect management, automation, API, performance, and CI/CD toolchains.
- Experience leading a QE transformation, increasing automation adoption, or standardizing quality practices across teams.
Leadership and Professional Capabilities
Capability
Expected demonstration
Quality leadership
Sets direction, establishes standards, and makes evidence-based quality decisions.
People leadership
Builds trust, manages performance, coaches talent, and creates clarity and accountability.
Strategic thinking
Connects quality investments to product risk, customer impact, and business outcomes.
Technical credibility
Understands modern testing architecture and can guide teams without becoming a delivery bottleneck.
Collaboration and influence
Works effectively across product, engineering, operations, vendors, and business stakeholders.
Continuous improvement
Uses data, retrospectives, and root-cause learning to improve systems rather than individual outcomes.
What Success Looks Like
- A clear, adopted MPP QE operating model with consistent standards, ownership, quality gates, test evidence, and release readiness expectations.
- A balanced manual and automation capability that improves feedback speed while protecting critical merchandise planning, data, integration, and reporting outcomes.
- Release decisions supported by transparent quality evidence, risks, and mitigation plans.
- Improved defect prevention, root-cause learning, automation reliability, and testing efficiency.
- A capable, engaged team with clear expectations, regular coaching, development plans, and succession opportunities.
- Strong partnerships across Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, Operations, vendors, and MPP business stakeholders.
Come Discover Different at TJX. From opportunity…
Come Discover Different at TJX. From opportunity and teamwork to growth, we think you’ll find it’s so much more than a job. We care deeply about our culture, but also prioritize the tangible things—competitive salaries, strong benefits, and clear advancement paths. We consider all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital or military status.
In addition to our open door policy and supportive work environment, we also strive to provide a competitive salary and benefits package. TJX considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. TJX also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.
Salarpuria Sattva Knowledge City, Inorbit Road
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In addition to our open door policy and supportive work environment, we also strive to provide a competitive salary and benefits package. TJX considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. TJX also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.
Salarpuria Sattva Knowledge City, Inorbit Road
APAC Home Office Hyderabad IN
