QA Engineering Manager
Panoptyc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Manage, mentor, and grow the QA team—setting priorities, providing feedback, and supporting career development
- Lead and evolve our test automation framework, with a focus on Playwright
- Design and implement end-to-end, integration, and regression test suites
- Champion a strong quality engineering mindset across the organization—shifting quality left and making it everyone's responsibility
- Collaborate with product and engineering to define acceptance criteria and testability requirements
- Identify gaps in test coverage and drive continuous improvement in our testing practices
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and release planning
- Own QA team capacity planning, and team performance
Requirements
- Experience managing or leading a QA team, with a track record of developing engineers
- Strong software engineering skills—you write clean, maintainable test code
- Deep hands-on experience with Playwright (or similar modern automation tools, but ideally Playwright)
- A genuine quality engineering mindset: you think about edge cases, failure modes, and user impact instinctively
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into deployment workflows
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
- Clear communication—you can explain complex issues to technical and non-technical audiences alike and represent the QA function to leadership
- Nice to Have: Experience with performance or load testing, Background in API testing and contract testing, Familiarity with accessibility testing
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
test automationPlaywrightend-to-end testingintegration testingregression testingCI/CD pipelinesdebuggingproblem-solvingAPI testingperformance testing
Soft Skills
team managementmentoringcommunicationcollaborationquality engineering mindsetfeedback provisioncareer development supportcapacity planningcontinuous improvementrepresentation to leadership