Senior QA Manager
SEON
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Budapest • Hungary
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About the role
- Own the overall QA approach across teams and product areas, including release readiness, quality gates, and clear delivery criteria.
- Lead and evolve automation strategy across the test pyramid (unit, integration, end-to-end) for frontend and backend components, improving reliability and coverage.
- Drive CI/CD quality improvements by making automated tests actionable, fast, and trustworthy for continuous delivery, leveraging the latest in AI.
- Work closely with Engineering Managers and Product Management to understand business risk, prioritize testing investments, and align quality goals with roadmap delivery.
- Guide teams on testability and architecture-aware testing, helping ensure the right testing techniques are used for the system design.
- Review and give feedback on pull requests when needed, with a focus on test quality, maintainability, and risk.
- Monitor test results and trends, lead triage of failures, and drive fixes for flaky tests and reliability issues.
- Mentor and support test and software engineers, helping them improve automation skills and grow in their roles.
- Ensure system-level quality through a pragmatic mix of automated and manual test activities across the application lifecycle.
- Lead, coach, and develop QA engineers, supporting growth through regular feedback, mentoring, and clear expectations.
- Own hiring for QA roles when needed, including role scoping, interviewing, and onboarding.
- Run performance and career processes for the team, including goal setting, growth plans, and performance reviews.
- Partner with Engineering leadership on team structure, resourcing, and capacity planning to meet delivery goals.
- Build a strong team culture that values quality, ownership, and collaboration across functions.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a Test Lead or QA Lead, with ownership of delivery quality and experience leading or managing engineers.
- Strong understanding of modern test frameworks such as Playwright, Jest, JUnit, pytest, or Selenium.
- Solid understanding of AI, including Claude, Codex, inside of Windsurf and/or Cursor.
- Hands-on technical ability and confidence guiding automation design and implementation leveraging the latest in AI, including code review and framework direction.
- Solid programming knowledge in one or more of TypeScript, Python, or Java, and comfort working with Git in a CI/CD environment.
- Strong understanding of system architecture and databases, and the ability to recommend appropriate testing approaches for the architecture.
- Clear communication skills and a proactive mindset, able to lead discussions, make tradeoffs, and raise risks early.
- 3+ years of experience on:
- managing or leading QA engineers, including coaching, performance feedback, and day-to-day support.
- supporting career development, including growth plans, promotion readiness, and performance review cycles.
- contributing to hiring and team building, including interviewing, onboarding, and team process improvements.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
automation strategyunit testingintegration testingend-to-end testingCI/CDtest frameworksPlaywrightJestJUnitpytest
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationproactive mindsetteam buildingcoachingperformance feedbackcollaborationgoal settingrisk management