AI Strategic Consultant

Technical Requirements: Mandatory Skills These are essential for baseline success in an enterprise QE advisory leadership role: 15+ years of QE experience with enterprise-scale transformation exposure Demonstrated ability to lead and advise large, complex organisations. QE strategy and operating model design Defining multi‑year QE roadmaps, governance frameworks, and risk‑based quality strategies. Quality economics expertise Cost-of-quality analysis, ROI articulation, and tying QE outcomes to business metrics (cost, speed, resilience). Risk-based and outcome-driven QE leadership Driving measurable improvements in defect leakage, release velocity, reliability, and compliance. Modern engineering fluency (at advisory level) Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, cloud‑native, and platform engineering concepts to translate technical complexity into actionable quality guidance (without hands-on pipeline work). Responsibilities: Lead end‑to‑end enterprise QE transformation by assessing current capabilities, benchmarking maturity, and defining AI‑first target-state blueprints across people, process, and technology. Design intelligent governance and operating models that embed predictive, autonomous quality practices aligned to business outcomes, while driving rapid value through early wins. Enable sustainable change through executive alignment, change management, transition and knowledge‑transfer strategies, and reduced dependency on consulting support. Additionally, support growth through C‑suite advisory, pre‑sales leadership, creation of proprietary IP, and market shaping via thought leadership and industry engagement. Preferred Skills: Foundational ->Artificial Intelligence->Responsible AI by Design,Technology->AI-AI Engineering->AI/ML Solution Architecture and Design,Technology->AI-Generative AI->Artificial Intelligence - BASIC,Technology->AI-Generative AI->Generative AI - Basic->retrieval augmented generation (rag),Technology->AI-Responsible AI->Responsible AI->explainable ai,Technology->API Testing->RestAssured,Technology->Architecture->Enterprise Architecture,Technology->Mobile Automation Testing->Mobile Test Automation process,Technology->Mobile Testing->BDD, TDD, ATDD for Mobile Test Automation