Own the architecture
Framework and tooling decisions across teams, with migration paths that finish.
Specialist Program
Test Architecture & QE Leadership
The step from building suites to owning quality for an organisation: architecture across teams, a strategy leadership will fund, metrics that mean something, and AI adoption that does not turn into theatre.
- Instructor-led
- Hands-on labs
- Capstone project
- Interview preparation
- Duration
- 6 MONTHS
- Schedule
- WEEKEND
- Mode
- Live online
- Fee
- 100,000
Part of path
Become a QE Architect / Leader
What you'll be able to do
Outcomes, not topics coveredWrite the strategy
A quality strategy with scope, risk, staffing and a bar leadership signs off.
Measure honestly
Metrics that reflect risk and flow, not vanity coverage percentages.
Lead AI adoption
Where AI belongs in the SDLC, what to govern and what to refuse.
Syllabus
7 modules- 01
Quality Strategy
Risk models, scope, staffing and the trade-offs you present to leadership
- 02
Architecture at Scale
Multi-team frameworks, shared libraries, versioning and ownership
- 03
Platform & Tooling
Build vs buy, tool consolidation, migration planning and cost
- 04
Metrics & Governance
Flow, escape rate, flake budgets, audit trails and reporting
- 05
AI Adoption
Where AI helps, evaluation discipline and organisational guardrails
- 06
Stakeholder Leadership
Influencing engineering and product, hiring, and growing a QE team
- 07
Capstone & Interview Preparation
A strategy document and architecture review, plus leadership interviews
Prerequisites & who it's for
- Senior SDETs ready to own quality beyond their own team
- QA leads and managers moving into architecture
- Engineering managers who own a quality function
Instructor
BABU MANICKAM
Practising Quality Engineer · years of experience —
Upcoming cohorts
Dates, timings and fees are placeholders pending confirmation.
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Still deciding
Not sure architecture is your next step?
Take the assessment first — it will tell you whether to lead now or close an engineering gap before you do.
Talk to a mentor
Fifteen minutes with an engineer who teaches this program.
Ask about the stack, the workload and whether your background is enough to keep pace.
- Next available slot
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- Typical response
- Within one working day