QE Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Serbia.

📋 Description

• Define and consistently enhance the Quality Engineering strategy, methodology, and execution across development projects.

• Offer technical expertise and leadership in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, and Software Testing.

• Lead, mentor, and develop QA Automation Engineers and QA Architects, while providing functional leadership to QA Engineers within development teams.

• Establish expectations, coach team members, address skill gaps, and foster a culture of ownership and ongoing technical growth.

• Participate in recruitment, onboarding, training, and performance assessments.

• Ensure that development teams adhere to Quality Engineering principles, guidelines, and best practices.

• Advocate for shift-left quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Develop, standardize, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks and solutions.

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and continuous delivery workflows.

• Establish testing practices suitable for short development cycles, frequent integration, and trunk-based development.

• Define quality benchmarks, testing methodologies, and engineering practices across the organization.

• Lead functional, integration, API, end-to-end, performance, scalability, and reliability testing efforts.

• Set performance baselines, quality gates, and monitoring signals in collaboration with Engineering and Architecture.

• Monitor QA activities, test outcomes, escaped defects, quality trends, and root causes.

• Analyze and present quality and testing metrics to stakeholders.

• Ensure the effective utilization and continuous assessment of QA tools and technologies.

• Own and drive the Quality Engineering AI adoption strategy across test design, generation, automation, exploratory testing, analysis, and productivity.

• Enhance AI capabilities by coaching QE engineers on AI-assisted workflows and assessing their effectiveness.

• Evaluate emerging testing technologies and industry practices.

• Act as the escalation point and primary contact for Quality Engineering, testing, and quality assurance matters.

• Collaborate with QA Engineers, QA Architects, Engineering Managers, and the Director of Engineering to achieve company quality objectives.

• Encourage quality ownership among development teams and implement measures to address quality risks and process deficiencies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience in Quality Assurance and Quality Engineering across multiple projects, both off-shore and in-house.

• Strong technical leadership abilities in implementing and shaping company-wide QA and Quality Engineering processes, strategies, and standards.

• Expertise in functional and non-functional testing, manual and automated testing, preferably in an Agile and continuous delivery environment.

• Extensive experience with test automation frameworks, CI/CD integration, and modern software testing practices.

• Proven experience in leading and mentoring QA Automation Engineers, QA Architects, and QA Engineers across various development teams.

• Excellent understanding of Risk Management, Risk Identification, and Risk-Based Testing.

• Experience managing large and complex activities, technical initiatives, and processes.

• Proven capabilities in developing and implementing scalable test automation strategies and frameworks.

• Knowledge of contemporary software development, CI/CD, and continuous testing methodologies.

• Practical experience with AI-assisted testing, automation, and engineering workflows.

• Strong comprehension of performance, scalability, and reliability testing for distributed, API-driven, and high-volume production systems.

• Experience working in continuous delivery environments characterized by frequent releases, short-lived changes, and trunk-based development.

• Exceptional communication, influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to motivate teams, manage conflicts, and perform under pressure.

• Capability to establish, implement, and direct Quality Engineering principles throughout the organization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

• Reasonable accommodations provided during the application, testing, interview, and employment processes.