Manager Quality Engineering

Publicis Sapient; Bogotá; On-site; COP 90,000,000 - 150,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive workplace

Learning and development opportunities

Competitive compensation and benefits

Work-life balance flexibility

Comprehensive health benefits for you

Wellness program and employee support

Job summary

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Manager, Quality Engineering to lead the quality strategy for complex digital products and enterprise platforms. You will combine hands-on QE with technical leadership to design test strategies, build scalable automation, validate data and event flows, and embed quality throughout the SDLC.

You will partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, and client stakeholders to identify risk early, guide technical decisions, develop QE talent, and continuously improve

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Quality Engineering, SDET, or Test Automation in Agile product environments.
• Hands-on API testing and automation with Karate, RestAssured, Playwright, or similar.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, integration/regression testing, and API contract validation with Postman/Swagger OpenAPI.
• Experience testing distributed/event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar tech.
• Experience validating data across NoSQL databases (MongoDB/Couchbase) and data reconciliation.
• Experience designing or evolving test automation frameworks and CI/CD integration.
• Ability to define QE strategy, metrics, gates, and release-readiness criteria.
• Strong communication and collaboration with Engineering, Product, Architecture, and client stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the quality strategy for complex digital products and enterprise platforms.
• Design test strategies, build scalable automation, validate data/event flows, embed quality in SDLC.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, and clients to identify risks and guide decisions.
• Develop QE talent and continuously improve quality engineering practices across delivery environments.

Skills

Quality Engineering

API testing

Automation

CI/CD

Data validation

QA strategy

Communication

Tools

Karate

RestAssured

Playwright

Postman

Swagger/OpenAPI

Kafka

MongoDB

Couchbase

Job description

Job Description

As a Manager, Quality Engineering, you will lead the quality strategy for complex digital products and enterprise platforms, with a focus on Order Management, Cart Management, APIs, distributed systems, and system integrations.

You will combine hands-on Quality Engineering expertise with technical leadership, helping teams design effective test strategies, build scalable automation, validate complex data and event flows, and embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Architecture, and client stakeholders to identify risk early, guide technical decisions, develop QE talent, and continuously improve how quality is engineered and measured.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, SDET, or Test Automation, including experience leading QE initiatives or engineering teams in Agile product environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with API testing and automation, using Karate, RestAssured, Playwright, or comparable programmatic automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, integration testing, regression testing, and API contract validation, with experience using tools such as Postman and Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Experience testing distributed or event-driven architectures, ideally using Kafka or comparable messaging/event-streaming technologies, with an understanding of asynchronous processing, message flows, failure scenarios, and data consistency.
• Experience validating data across MongoDB, Couchbase, or comparable NoSQL/document databases, including queries, data integrity checks, schema validation, and end-to-end data reconciliation.
• Experience designing or evolving test automation frameworks and integrating automated suites within CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to define QE strategy, quality metrics, automation reporting, quality gates, and release-readiness criteria across complex software delivery environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across Engineering, Product, Architecture, business, and client stakeholders to drive quality outcomes.

Set Yourself Apart With

• Experience testing Order Management, Cart, Checkout, Commerce, or other high-volume transactional platforms.
• Experience validating complex microservices architectures, including upstream and downstream enterprise integrations.
• Hands-on experience with Azure or other major cloud platforms and containerized/cloud-native environments.
• Experience with performance, resilience, reliability, or other non-functional testing across distributed applications.
• Experience leading Quality Engineering transformation initiatives, introducing new automation approaches, tooling, engineering standards, or reusable quality practices.
• Experience applying emerging technologies, including AI-assisted Quality Engineering, to improve engineering productivity, automation, or defect prevention.

Additional Information

This is a Full- Time, long term opportunity with full benefits, available for candidates based in Colombia, Mexico and Costa Rica.

• An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [e-mail]

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.