Manager, QA & Automation Engineering

This role is hybrid with 3 days working from the office weekly (Fabryczna,Krakow)

The Basics

As a QA & Automation Manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of truly outstanding QA engineers. You will work closely with QA team members, developers, product managers, user experience designers, technical documentation team and senior leadership in building Tanium’s unified endpoint management and security platform. QA managers support their team members as they set and raise our products’ quality bar. While much of your time will be spent working with and supporting your team members, technical skills are essential. We’re looking for seasoned QA professionals who’ve transitioned into people management.

What you’ll do

• Build exceptional teams of highly qualified, high-performing engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact.
• Work closely with development leadership, product managers, and other teams to define the vision and roadmap with a focus on the needs of Tanium’s customers.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance and support while nurturing a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture. 
• Team with other managers to coordinate on requirements, dependencies, and opportunities for collaboration.
• Lead by example, leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the quality bar and ensure that the team consistently delivers outstanding results.
• Work with senior engineering leaders to adjust the composition of the team and create new teams as necessary to respond to changing business needs.
• Effectively manage projects throughout the entire software development cycle.
• Ensure delivery of high quality, performant software by the team.

We’re looking for someone with

• Education
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience

• Experience
  • You have 5+ years managing high-performing quality assurance teams
  • You have 10+ years software QA experience           
  • You have a proven track record of delivering enterprise-level reliable and scalable solutions
  • You have a thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Software as a Service (SaaS), etc.
  • You are a first principles thinker who can come up with pragmatic solutions.
  • You are still an engineer at the core who loves to test even if you don’t do it all the time.
  • You keep up with industry trends and can assess and utilize new technologies to help solve problems.

Additional Offering

• Attractive remuneration and comprehensive benefits.
• All full-time employees are eligible to receive restricted stock units — own part of the company you help build.
• A value-based, transparent culture that fosters collaboration and innovation.
• The opportunity to work on complex, strategic global projects and initiatives.
• Career development opportunities.
• Luxmed Complex Gold — individual or family package, fully paid by Tanium.
• Multisport & MyBenefit platform.
• Life Insurance with UNUM, fully paid by Tanium.
• Lunch via the Wolt application, paid by Tanium up to 70 PLN.
• A selection of snacks, fruit, and beverages available in the office.

About Tanium 

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.  

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work. 

Taking Care of Our Team Members 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.