Quality Engineering Manager

You will lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of SDETs while supporting coaching, performance management, career development, and hiring. You will define testing strategies, automation frameworks, and quality practices; embed quality throughout the development lifecycle; improve test coverage, reliability, and release confidence; and guide testing architecture and quality-risk decisions. You will lead quality initiatives across concurrent projects, align cross-functional stakeholders, communicate risks and trade-offs, establish quality metrics, and drive modern, AI-assisted testing and automation practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of SDETs
• Support career development, coaching, performance management, and hiring activities
• Define and evolve testing strategies, automation frameworks, and quality practices
• Embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle with Engineering and Product teams
• Improve test coverage, automation effectiveness, reliability, and release confidence
• Review technical approaches and guide automation, testing architecture, and quality-risk decisions
• Lead quality initiatives across multiple projects and workstreams
• Align Engineering, Product, Operations, Security, and Platform stakeholders
• Communicate risks, trade-offs, and delivery expectations to stakeholders
• Establish and track quality metrics, test effectiveness, automation coverage, and delivery performance
• Drive process improvements and adoption of modern testing approaches, including AI-assisted quality engineering and automation

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software testing or quality engineering
• 3+ years of people-management experience leading SDET or QA teams
• Experience leading quality engineering teams within product-based organizations
• Test automation, quality engineering, and engineering best-practice expertise
• Hands-on experience with Java and automation tools such as Selenium or Playwright
• Experience testing distributed systems and microservices-based applications
• Experience managing multiple projects and competing priorities
• Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and drive outcomes