QE Manager: APIs, Microservices & Automation

Publicis Groupe; Bogotá; On-site; COP 120,000,000 - 180,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits for you and yourFamily

Flexible work arrangements

Learning and development opportunities

Competitive compensation and benefits

Wellness program

Job summary

Publicis Sapient in Bogotá is seeking a Manager, Quality Engineering to lead the quality strategy for complex digital products and enterprise platforms, focusing on order/carts, APIs, and event-driven systems.

You will combine hands-on QE expertise with technical leadership to design effective test strategies, build scalable automation, validate data flows, and embed quality throughout the software lifecycle, partnering with engineering, product, and client stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Quality Engineering, software testing, SDET, or test automation leadership.
• Hands-on API testing and automation using Karate, RestAssured, Playwright, or similar.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, integration and regression testing, plus API contract validation.
• Experience testing distributed or event-driven architectures (Kafka) and NoSQL data stores.
• Ability to define QE strategy, metrics, gates, and release-readiness criteria across complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end quality strategies across APIs, microservices, and databases.
• Build scalable API automation solutions with Karate, RestAssured, and Playwright.
• Validate asynchronous data flows and Kafka message processing for data consistency.
• Integrate automated checks into CI/CD pipelines for fast feedback.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, and client stakeholders to manage risk.
• Lead and mentor Quality Engineers, expanding ownership and capabilities.
• Drive continuous improvement with metrics and modern tooling.

Skills

Quality Engineering

API testing

CI/CD integration

Test automation

Agile practices

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Karate

RestAssured

Playwright

Postman

Swagger/OpenAPI

Kafka

MongoDB

Couchbase

Job description

Publicis Sapient in Bogotá is seeking a Manager, Quality Engineering to lead the quality strategy for complex digital products and enterprise platforms, focusing on order/carts, APIs, and event-driven systems.

You will combine hands-on QE expertise with technical leadership to design effective test strategies, build scalable automation, validate data flows, and embed quality throughout the software lifecycle, partnering with engineering, product, and client stakeholders.