Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering
AutoTrader.ca
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Job summary
AutoSync is seeking an Engineering Manager for Quality Engineering in Toronto. You will lead a small, high-impact team focused on quality enablement, agentic tooling, metrics, and coaching to scale quality across product engineering teams.
You will drive quality maturity, partner with platform and product teams, and shape guardrails, workflows, and measurable outcomes, advancing product-team ownership of quality.
Qualifications
- Experience managing, coaching, and developing engineers.
- Strong background in quality engineering, test automation, CI/CD, or engineering productivity.
- Hands-on testing practices across unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, performance, and reliability testing.
- Practical experience with AI-assisted or agentic coding tools such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot.
- Ability to define quality strategies, maturity models, standards, KPIs, or engineering health metrics across multiple teams.
- Strong fluency in at least one modern programming language (TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Java).
- Experience building or improving developer tooling, automation, dashboards, or quality platforms.
- Strong communication, coaching, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead agentic quality engineering and tooling initiatives across teams.
- Define patterns for agent supervision, validation, and safe adoption.
- Own quality maturity model, standards, and KPIs; coach teams on modern testing practices.
- Embed quality into planning, delivery, release, and operational rituals.
- Design metrics and dashboards to track pipeline and product quality.
- Grow a community around quality engineering and AI-assisted delivery.
- Manage and develop 3 direct reports.
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Job description
We are TRADER, a Canadian leader in digital automotive solutions. Our flagship brands — AutoTrader.ca, AutoSync, Dealertrack Canada and CMS — help Canadians buy, sell, and finance vehicles with confidence.
As part of AutoScout24 group, Europe’s largest online car marketplace, we’re shaping the future of automotive retail in Canada and beyond.
Learn more at tradercorporation.com.
This role will be within the AutoSync team. AutoSync supports over 3,500 dealerships nationwide, delivering cutting-edge software tools to simplify operations, boost marketing, and drive sales.
At AutoSync, quality is owned by every product engineering team. The Quality Engineering team exists to make that possible at scale. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a small, high-impact team focused on quality enablement, agentic engineering, tooling, metrics, and coaching. This is not a traditional QA management role, and it is not a centralized testing function. The team acts as a center of practice for quality: helping engineers and teams build, test, ship, and operate healthier products themselves.
A major part of this mission is helping AutoSync move from ad hoc AI prompting toward a mature "on-the-loop" agentic model. In this model, engineers supervise capable agents that can support planning, implementation, testing, triage, pipeline diagnosis, and quality improvement through clear workflows, guardrails, and measurable outcomes.
You will manage up to 5 direct reports and work closely with engineering managers, staff engineers, product leaders, platform teams, and cross-department stakeholders. This role is ideal for a technical people leader who can combine engineering judgment, quality strategy, agentic tooling, and organizational influence.
- Define how AutoSync uses agentic coding tools such as Codex and similar platforms to improve engineering quality and developer effectiveness.
- Build, mature, and scale reusable testing and quality agents, skills, workflows, and integrations that serve multiple engineering teams.
- Establish practical patterns for agent supervision, validation, traceability, human review, and safe adoption.
- Help teams move from manual prompting to reliable on-the-loop workflows where agents reduce toil, and engineers stay accountable for outcomes.
- Evaluate emerging agentic tooling and translate useful capabilities into practical engineering workflows.
- Own and evolve AutoSync's quality maturity model, maturity indexes, standards, and KPIs.
- Coach engineering teams and individual engineers on modern testing, quality, and delivery practices.
- Embed quality practices into planning, delivery, release, and operational rituals.
- Participate in team ceremonies and cross-department planning where quality, delivery health, or engineering maturity are at stake.
- Shift the organization away from centralized test execution and toward product-team ownership of quality.
- Design and build metrics and dashboards that show pipeline quality, product quality, release health, and engineering maturity.
- Provide visibility at team, product, and AutoSync-wide levels.
- Use data to identify quality risks, slow feedback loops, flaky tests, pipeline bottlenecks, escaped defects, and coaching opportunities.
- Help engineering leadership make better investment and tradeoff decisions using clear quality signals
- Create and run workshops, training sessions, and coaching programs for engineers and teams.
- Build practical playbooks, examples, golden paths, and knowledge bases for quality engineering and agentic workflows.
- Grow a community of practice around quality, testing, engineering health, and AI-assisted delivery.
- Manage, coach, and develop 3 direct reports.
- Set priorities and technical direction for the Quality Engineering team.
- Balance experimentation with operational reliability and measurable business impact.
- Model strong technical judgment, including the ability to reason about automation, pipelines, test strategy, and agentic workflows.
- Partner with engineering leaders across AutoSync to drive change without relying only on direct authority.
- Engineering teams have clear quality standards, measurable maturity indicators, and practical guidance they can use independently.
- Agentic workflows reduce manual toil in test generation, test maintenance, pipeline diagnosis, defect triage, and quality analysis.
- Quality dashboards are trusted by teams and leadership for planning, prioritization, and continuous improvement.
- Training and coaching lead to visible improvements in testing practices, release confidence, and product health.
- The Quality Engineering team is seen as an enablement partner and center of practice, not as a gatekeeper or outsourced test execution team
- Experience managing, coaching, and developing engineers in a software engineering organization.
- Strong background in quality engineering, test automation, CI/CD, or engineering productivity.
- Hands‑on understanding of modern testing practices across unit, integration, contract, end‑to‑end, performance, and reliability testing.
- Practical experience with AI‑assisted or agentic coding tools such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools.
- Ability to define quality strategies, maturity models, standards, KPIs, or engineering health metrics across multiple teams.
- Strong technical fluency in at least one modern programming language such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, or similar.
- Experience building or improving developer tooling, automation, dashboards, or quality platforms.
- Strong communication, coaching, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- A platform and enablement mindset: success is measured by how much better other teams become, not by how much work is centralized in your team.
- Experience building or operating agentic workflows, including tool calling, agent orchestration, MCP servers, reusable skills, eval harnesses, or guardrails.
- Understanding of quality challenges in AI‑assisted systems, including non‑determinism, regression testing, output validation, hallucination risk, and human review.
- Experience with observability and quality dashboards using tools such as Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Looker, or similar.
- Experience with cloud‑native, distributed, event‑driven, web, or mobile systems.
- Experience scaling quality practices across multiple product teams, domains, or business units.
- Experience in a center‑of‑excellence, center‑of‑practice, platform, or engineering enablement model.
- Experience designing and facilitating technical workshops, training programs, or internal communities of practice.
- It is not a traditional QA manager role focused on assigning manual test execution.
- It is not a centralized team that writes and owns all test cases for product teams.
- It is not an AI experimentation role without delivery accountability.
- It is not only about dashboards or process. The role must connect metrics, tooling, agents, coaching, and engineering behavior change.
We understand that there is life at work and life outside of work. Here are a few benefits we all benefit from that support us to be our creative best.
- Gym discounts
- Employee and Family Assistance program
- Virtual wellness events
- Conferences & training budget
- Regular internal training programs
- Financial planning with 3% matching Pension
- Competitive salary
- Annual bonus structure
Compensation Our ranges reflect the expected compensation at the time of posting. The final offer may vary and can be higher based on relevant skills, experience, location, and market conditions. Based on the role, the total rewards package may also include benefits, bonus, and other employee offerings.
The base salary range for this position is: $120 CAD - $150 CAD
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hiring: We use artificial intelligence ("AI") in our hiring process, including to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position.
Vacancy Status: This job posting is for an existing vacancy.
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