Quality Engineering Manager

LawPay

Quality Engineering Manager at 8am, leading quality-focused engineering team in Agile squads. Overseeing defect metrics and ensuring quality practices across multiple engineering squads.

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $170,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a team of QEs embedded in Agile squads: hiring, coaching, performance management, and growing your ICs along our QE career ladder.
Manage QE resource allocation across squads: rebalancing coverage as priorities shift, covering for leave or open headcount, and surfacing tradeoffs to Engineering and Product when demand exceeds capacity.
Own the QE practice across the squads your QEs work in, enforce release readiness standards through our quality gates, and keep Qase traceability coherent.
Review test plans authored by your team and raise the bar on coverage, clarity, and maintainability.
Partner with peer QE managers, the Tooling and Automation team, Data Engineering, and Product to identify critical automation paths and build them into the quality gates.
Pull in our nonfunctional QE specialists (Data, Security, Performance) where their expertise sharpens coverage for the squads your QEs are in.
Partner with Customer Support and Customer Success to bring customer signal into QE.
Own post-release quality: driving QE response and root cause analysis when escapes happen, and feeding those learnings back into gates, test coverage, and process.
Enforce existing QE processes and drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years managing a quality-focused engineering team, with a track record of driving defect leakage or equivalent quality metrics down and sustaining them as the codebase and team grow.
Strong judgment under ambiguity and proactive communication in all directions.
An active view of AI in QE.
Technical breadth and depth in both QE practice and the products you'll cover.
Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health Insurance Coverage: We offer our 8Team a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit your needs, including a 100% company-paid HDHP plan for employees.
Financial perks: We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including annual bonuses, equity options and 401(k) or RRSP if in Canada, with a company match for all team members.
Time for what matters: Flexible Time Off, paid holidays, and a parental leave program for our new parents.
Wellness: Wellness stipends, mental health support, and one-on-one nutrition coaching.
Learning and Development: Continuous learning through 8am.edu, leadership programs, professional development funds, and individually focused talent development.
Giving back to the communities around us: Participate in our charitable matching gift program, paid time off for volunteer service, and company-sponsored volunteer events (both local and virtually).
Engagement: Virtual and in-person team-building events, quarterly award recognition through our Rise & Shine Award of Excellence Program, and our peer-to-peer appreciation platform.

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Hard Skills & Tools

quality engineeringtest plansautomationroot cause analysisdefect leakagequality metricscontinuous improvementAgile methodologiesAI tools

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingperformance managementproactive communicationjudgment under ambiguity