Engineering Manager, QE
About the Team:
QE partners with engineering teams to own test strategy, coverage, and quality-by-design. We're not a separate QA checkpoint — we enable engineering teams to ship fast with confidence.
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)