Quality Engineering Manager
CUBE
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Set the overall quality direction for the quality engineering group, directly leading a team of end-to-end integration and performance testers.
- Own tooling and test standards, lead the cross-cutting testing guild across UI and API testing, and ensure quality is embedded in delivery across all squads.
- Champion the adoption of AI-powered tools and practices to accelerate testing, improve defect detection, and drive productivity across the quality engineering function.
- Own the quality engineering capability for the group, ensuring teams deliver reliable, performant software through effective testing strategies, tooling, and standards.
- This role contributes to the organisation's mission by setting the quality bar across squads, building and leading a dedicated end-to-end integration and performance testing team, and driving a culture of quality ownership through the testing guild.
- The QA Manager balances people leadership and strategic quality direction with hands-on involvement in test approach, tooling decisions, and mentoring.
- Track and report on quality metrics across the group, using data to drive improvement and demonstrate quality ROI.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of the quality engineering domain and delivery context, with the ability to partner with quality leads on direction.
- Experience leading and managing a QA or test team, including hiring, performance management, and development.
- Expert knowledge of end-to-end integration testing across multi-service architectures.
- Strong experience with performance and load testing tools, approaches, and analysis (e.g. k6, JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent).
- Deep knowledge of both UI testing (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium) and API testing (e.g. Postman, REST Assured, or equivalent) approaches.
- Experience defining and governing testing tooling and standards across multiple teams.
- Ability to set quality metrics, track trends, and use data to drive improvement.
- Exceptional communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders, skilled at quality status and risk communication.
- Experience leading a community of practice or guild model.
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills with a track record of developing testers.
- Experience driving adoption of AI-powered tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude, AI-assisted test generation) to accelerate quality engineering practices, including test creation, defect analysis, and performance testing.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
quality engineeringend-to-end integration testingperformance testingload testingUI testingAPI testingtest standardsquality metricsdefect detectiondata analysis
Soft Skills
people leadershipstrategic directionmentoringcoachingcommunicationcollaborationcommunity leadershipquality ownershipstakeholder engagementperformance management