Associate Test Manager(AEM)

Bounteous is a global AI Services firm where agentic engineering and human experience converge to deliver transformative business outcomes for the enterprise. We help organizations design, build, and scale AI-driven products, platforms, and processes. With more than 5,000 team members worldwide, Bounteous delivers AI that sticks, powering adoption and outcomes that move organizations from experimentation to true transformation. Bounteous is backed by New Mountain Capital, a New York-based growth-oriented investment firm that emphasizes business building.

QA Leadership & Strategy
• Define and implement QA strategies, standards, and best practices for AEM projects.
• Lead and mentor QA engineers, providing technical guidance and direction.
• Establish quality gates across the SDLC and ensure adherence to testing processes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance testing efficiency and product quality.
• Participate in project planning, estimation, and release readiness activities. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
• Establish and enforce test case review processes, ensuring all test artifacts undergo QA Lead review and approval prior to execution. Functional Testing
• Review business requirements, user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop comprehensive test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and traceability matrices.
• Validate AEM components, templates, workflows, content fragments, and experience fragments. 
• Perform end-to-end testing across Author, Publish, Dispatcher, and Production environments.
• Conduct regression, integration, system, smoke, sanity, and UAT support testing.
• Validate responsive behavior across multiple browsers and devices. Test Management & Review
• Create and maintain detailed test cases in AgileTest aligned with business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Ensure complete test coverage and traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects.
• Conduct internal test case reviews and provide sign-off before execution to ensure quality, consistency, and adherence to testing standards.
• Review test scenarios and test cases prepared by QA team members, provide constructive feedback, and drive continuous improvement in test design and coverage.
AEM-Specific Testing

• Test AEM Sites, Assets, Forms, and Headless implementations.
• Validate content authoring, publishing workflows, approval processes, and versioning.
• Verify dispatcher caching rules and content delivery mechanisms.
• Test integrations with Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target and third-party systems. • Validate SEO-related implementations within AEM. UI/UX & Figma Validation
• Review and interpret UI/UX designs from Figma. 
• Validate implemented screens against Figma designs for pixel-perfect accuracy.
• Ensure consistency in layouts, typography, colors, spacing, responsive behavior, and user interactions.
• Collaborate closely with designers and developers to identify and resolve UI/UX deviations.
• Support design QA activities during sprint and release cycles.
Test Automation
• Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks using Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar tools.
• Automate UI, API, and regression test suites for AEM applications.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor and improve automation coverage and execution efficiency.
• Analyze automation results and drive continuous quality improvements. API & Integration Testing
• Validate REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, and microservices used within AEM solutions.
• Perform functional and integration testing of connected systems. • Utilize tools such as Postman, Swagger, and REST Assured for API validation. Accessibility Testing
• Lead accessibility testing initiatives and ensure compliance with WCAG 2.1/2.2, ADA, and accessibility standards.
• Conduct accessibility audits using tools such as ANDI, NVDA and Level access, Lighthouse, and Accessibility Insights.
• Validate keyboard navigation, focus management, screen reader compatibility, color contrast, and semantic HTML compliance.
• Work closely with development and UX teams to remediate accessibility issues.
• Ensure accessibility compliance is integrated into release quality gates.
Defect Management & Reporting
• Manage the defect lifecycle using JIRA.
•Track quality metrics and provide regular status reports to stakeholders.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement defect prevention strategies.
• Support release sign-offs and production validation activities.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of QA experience with at least 3+ years in a QA Lead role.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience testing Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) applications.
• Strong understanding of AEM architecture, content management concepts, Author/Publish environments, Dispatcher, and workflows.
• Experience in manual and automated testing methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, DevOps, SDLC, and STLC practices.
• Experience working with distributed teams and multiple stakeholders.
Technical Skills Must-Have
• Adobe Experience Manager (AEM Sites, Assets, Forms)
• Selenium / Playwright / Cypress
• API Testing (Postman, REST Assured)
• JIRA, Confluence
• Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
• Accessibility Testing (WCAG, Axe, Lighthouse, Wave)
• Figma Design Validation and UI Review
• SQL and Database Validation
• Browser Developer Tools Good-to-Have
• Adobe Analytics
• Adobe Target
• Adobe Launch
• Adobe Commerce
• GraphQL APIs
• JMeter / LoadRunner
• SEO Testing and Validation
• Mobile and Responsive Testing
• AEM Cloud Service Experience
Soft Skills 
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with developers, architects, designers, and business teams.
• Strong attention to detail, particularly for UI/UX and accessibility compliance.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced Agile delivery environment.

Information Security Responsibilities
Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information

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