Senior Manager QA Engineering

Accountabilities:

• Lead the execution of the quality engineering strategy across multiple squads, aligning testing priorities with product and engineering objectives and ensuring quality risks are addressed throughout the development lifecycle.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of QA engineers and analysts while creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and high performance.
• Own and continuously evolve the test automation strategy, architecture, tooling, and standards, increasing automation maturity, maintainability, coverage, and effectiveness across engineering teams.
• Drive a measurable reduction in manual regression testing through reliable automation and risk-based testing approaches while maintaining appropriate exploratory and manual testing for comprehensive product coverage.
• Guide the transition from a QA-owned testing model toward shared quality ownership across Quality, Engineering, and Product, establishing clear responsibilities and accountability.
• Establish and monitor quality KPIs covering efficiency, defect trends, testing effectiveness, and release readiness, using insights to improve operational performance and release confidence.
• Identify testing risks, dependencies, quality gaps, and technical challenges, guiding teams toward effective mitigation plans and stronger QA workflows and operating practices.
• Manage team capacity, resource planning, and priorities to support business objectives while balancing long-term quality initiatives with tactical execution.
• Evaluate and operationalize AI-assisted approaches that can improve test creation, maintenance, execution, analysis, defect detection, and overall team effectiveness.
• Provide technical guidance on automation architectures, frameworks, CI/CD integrations, and quality engineering decisions, stepping into complex technical problem-solving when required.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in QA engineering, software quality, or a related field, including 5+ years of formal or informal people leadership experience.
• Proven experience defining and scaling test automation strategies, frameworks, tooling, and standards across complex software environments.
• Strong technical depth with the ability to evaluate automation architectures, framework design, code quality, CI/CD integrations, and technical tradeoffs without requiring day-to-day hands-on implementation.
• Advanced experience with automated testing tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, JUnit, and TestNG, combined with a deep understanding of QA methodologies, software development lifecycles, defect management, and test planning.
• Experience with quality management and development platforms such as Jira and TestRail, including the ability to establish quality metrics that drive measurable operational improvements.
• Proven experience leading QA teams across multiple disciplines, products, or engineering squads and influencing Engineering and Product teams toward shared quality ownership.
• Demonstrated ability to improve team efficiency or output quality through strategic use of AI tools, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Strong leadership, coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Strong technical judgment, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, create clarity, and make decisions in ambiguous environments.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without relying on direct authority and drive meaningful organizational change through new processes, standards, and approaches.
• Resilience, adaptability, and a transformation mindset, with the ability to learn quickly, operate effectively in ambiguity, and build accountable and collaborative teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits

• Compensation starting at $8,900 per month.
• Remote opportunity based in Brazil with flexibility designed to support effective work across distributed teams.
• Paid holidays and flexible, take-it-as-you-need-it scheduled time off.
• Equity participation in a rapidly growing technology company backed by leading venture capital firms.
• MacBook provided from day one, plus a $500 workspace stipend to help create an effective home-office environment.
• Opportunity to lead quality engineering transformation across multiple squads and influence organization-wide testing practices.
• Exposure to modern test automation, CI/CD, quality engineering, AI-assisted testing, and emerging technologies.
• Strong focus on leadership development, technical growth, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Inclusive and diverse working environment where new ideas and contributions are encouraged.