Engineering Manager, QE

 

About the Role:

You'll lead and manage a team of quality engineers: hiring, performance, and career growth, while staying hands-on enough to make calls on testing, test strategy, and quality debt. Working manager role — technical credibility matters as much as people skills.

What You'll Do

Hire, manage performance, and drive career growth for your team

Make quality-related technical calls: review MRs, test plans, improve test strategy, drive metrics on test coverage, customer issues, quality debt

Own execution and prioritization for your team's quality commitments

Build and/or maintain the dashboards and metrics that give visibility into quality health

Bring a proactive, clear quality narrative to your manager and partner teams

Partner closely with engineering managers, PMs, designers, and peer QE managers

Set up team processes (release pipelines, test planning, escalations, etc) that hold up without you checking every step

Own a portfolio-level view of quality

Who You Are

3+ years in a team management role

5+ years in quality engineering/quality assurance, Senior/Staff+ level prior to managerial role

Experienced managing QA/QE or test automation engineers

Technical depth in test planning, test strategy, automation, and quality metrics

A track record of building tools and processes that other teams adopt and rely on

A coach who gives specific, direct feedback

What You'll Do

Hire, manage performance, and drive career growth for your team

Make quality-related technical calls: review MRs, test plans, improve test strategy, drive metrics on test coverage, customer issues, quality debt

Own execution and prioritization for your team's quality commitments

Build and/or maintain the dashboards and metrics that give visibility into quality health

Bring a proactive, clear quality narrative to your manager and partner teams

Partner closely with engineering managers, PMs, designers, and peer QE managers

Set up team processes (release pipelines, test planning, escalations, etc) that hold up without you checking every step

Own a portfolio-level view of quality

Technical Requirements:

Experience evaluating non-deterministic or generative outputs (LLM/GenAI features)

Familiarity with eval frameworks, golden datasets, or scoring rubrics for measuring output quality 

Deep knowledge in at least one of: Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, or Java

Strong understanding of testing methodologies and QA domain theory

Experience with different test automation frameworks 

Strong test design skills on all levels

Experience with Test Management Systems (e.g., Allure TestOps)

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Kubernetes)

Solid understanding of CI/CD and continuous delivery practices

Fluency with AI tools, with a track record of using them to raise quality, speed up testing and delivery

Bonus Points if you have:

Exposure to search relevance or ranking quality

Experience setting up and configuring CI/CD tools and pipelines

Good understanding of GraphQL

Experience with Performance Engineering (k6 or similar) and Observability (OpenTelemetry/Grafana)

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