Technical Fellow - Quality Assurance
PTC · Pune
Our world is transforming, and PTC is leading the way. Our software brings the physical and digital worlds together, enabling companies to improve operations, create better products, and empower people in all aspects of their business.
Our people make all the difference in our success. Today, we are a global team of nearly 7,000 and our main objective is to create opportunities for our team members to explore, learn, and grow – all while seeing their ideas come to life and celebrating the differences that make us who we are and the work we do possible.
Role Overview
We are looking for a QA Technical Architect to lead Production QA initiatives for Windchill, focusing on validating product quality using real-world datasets, customer workflows, and production-like environments. This role will drive a shift toward customer-centric testing to improve release quality and upgrade reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and implement Production QA architecture and strategy using real customer datasets and workflows
- Enable testing with large-scale, representative data to uncover performance and scalability issues
- Integrate customer UAT workflows into QA for regression, compatibility, and automation
- Design and execute upgrade and migration testing using production-like environments and database rehosting
- Establish frameworks to prioritize and accelerate resolution of customer-driven defects
- Drive performance and scale validation for complex data structures and enterprise use cases
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and technical product owner teams to ensure release readiness
- Capture and share production learnings and best practices across QA and engineering
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years in PLM, with experience in test architecture roles
- Strong expertise in PTC Windchill (PLM, CAD data, workflows, MPM)
- Experience in upgrade testing, data migration, and enterprise environments
- Proficiency in automation, performance testing, and data-driven validation
- Strong ability to work with customer-like environments and real-world scenarios
- Excellent technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of cloud platforms and DevOps pipelines
- Experience with large-scale enterprise customer environments
Life at PTC is about more than working with today’s most cutting-edge technologies to transform the physical world. It’s about showing up as you are and working alongside some of today’s most talented industry leaders to transform the world around you.
If you share our passion for problem-solving through innovation, you’ll likely become just as passionate about the PTC experience as we are. Are you ready to explore your next career move with us?