QA Engineering Manager

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About Us

We help grocers, retailers, and micro market operators erase their shrink issues with the power of AI

QA Engineering Manager

About the Role

We're looking for a QA Manager who lives and breathes quality—someone who sees testing not as a gate but as a craft. You'll lead and manage the QA team, own our test automation strategy, and work closely with product, design and engineering to build quality into everything we ship.

What You'll Do

- 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

What You Bring

- 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