Virtru

Strategic Quality Engineering Manager

Virtru

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $130,000 - $190,000 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AnsibleCloudDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJavaScriptKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • As a Strategic Quality Engineering Manager, you will be reporting to the Software Development Engineering in Test Manager. This individual is the chief evangelist and architect of a modern, proactive quality strategy, leading a unified organization of both manual QA and automation (SDET) professionals. Their primary mission is to shift the company from reactive bug-finding to a proactive culture of building quality from the start.
  • Leadership & Mentorship: Manages and mentors the leaders of the QA and SDET teams, developing their leadership skills and holding them accountable for their team's performance.
  • Owns the hiring, performance management, and career development for the entire Quality Engineering organization.
  • Champions a unified "One Quality" culture, breaking down silos and ensuring seamless collaboration between the manual and automation functions.
  • Represents the Quality Engineering organization at the senior leadership level, advocating for resources and ensuring quality has a strong voice.
  • Builds and maintains a high-performing, engaged organization recognized for its expertise and impact on the business.
  • Proven track record of scaling and managing a multi-faceted quality organization (QA, SDET, etc.) to 10-20+ members.
  • Defines and owns the company's overall quality vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap.
  • Develops the plan to intelligently evolve the balance of manual and automated testing, increasing efficiency and test coverage over time.
  • Establishes and reports on the key metrics (KPIs) for product quality, such as bug escape rates, test pass rates, and release confidence scores.
  • Owns the budget for the Quality Engineering organization, including headcount, tools, and training.
  • Champions a "shift-left" mentality, integrating quality practices and automated testing earlier into the software development lifecycle.
  • Partners with Engineering and Product leadership to define and embed quality standards and processes throughout the entire development lifecycle.
  • Owns the master test strategy for major product releases, ensuring a comprehensive and risk-based approach to validation.
  • Standardizes quality processes across the organization, including test plan creation, bug triage protocols, and release readiness criteria.
  • Drives the selection and implementation of the tooling and infrastructure required for a world-class testing organization.
  • Balances the need for high quality and reliability with the business's need for speed and iterative delivery.
  • Partners with the SDET Manager to guide the architectural design and evolution of the test automation framework, ensuring it aligns with long-term engineering strategy.
  • Serves as an expert reviewer for the most critical test strategies and automation code reviews, mentoring the team on best practices in real-world scenarios.
  • Leads cross-functional post-mortems for critical quality failures, partnering with engineering leaders to identify root causes and drive systemic improvements.
  • Contributes to proof-of-concept projects alongside the team to evaluate new testing tools and technologies, providing strategic input on their viability.
  • Rolls up their sleeves to contribute code to high-leverage projects, such as foundational framework improvements or strategic internal tooling that benefits the entire department.
  • Thinking outside of the box to respectfully challenge your teammates and managers in the pursuit of excellence
  • Strong sense of urgency with an action-oriented mindset
  • Able to collaborate and adapt to shifting priorities as business needs evolve
  • Comfortable with asynchronous communication including slack, email, zoom, etc.
  • Virtruvian qualities that will set you up for success:
  • Thinking outside of the box to respectfully challenge your teammates and managers in the pursuit of excellence
  • Strong sense of urgency with an action-oriented mindset
  • Able to collaborate and adapt to shifting priorities as business needs evolve
  • Comfortable with asynchronous communication including slack, email, zoom, etc.

Requirements

  • Experience: 8+ years testing applications deployed in production.
  • Automation Expertise: Hands-on experience with functional testing, performance testing, accessibility testing and security testing, including test case development and execution.
  • Test Automation Frameworks: design, implement and maintain test automation frameworks
  • Programming Skills: Proficiency in one of these languages or similar: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python.
  • Tech Stack: Familiarity with Go, Java, C++, C# on GCP and Microsoft platforms.
  • Testing Frameworks: Experience with Unit Tests, API Tests, Web UI Tests using Playwright.
  • API & CLI Testing: Hands-on experience with REST API, and command-line interface (CLI) testing.
  • Infrastructure & Deployment: Understanding of IaC concepts and familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes (k8s), docker, and cloud environments.