QE Engineering Manager — Lead Quality & Testing Strategy

BetterCloud; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a hands-on, working manager to lead a team of quality engineers, hiring, performance management, and career growth while making critical testing strategy calls and addressing quality debt. You will balance people leadership with technical depth to ensure high-quality releases.

In this role you’ll own test plans, dashboards, and metrics, partnering with engineering managers, PMs, designers, and QE peers to deliver reliable software.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a team management role.
• 5+ years in quality engineering/quality assurance.
• Experience managing QA/QE or test automation engineers.
• Technical depth in test planning, test strategy, automation, and quality metrics.
• A track record of building tools and processes that other teams adopt and rely on.
• A coach who gives specific, direct feedback.

Responsibilities

• Hire, manage performance, and drive career growth for your team.
• Make quality-related technical calls: review MRs, test plans, improve test strategy, drive metrics on test coverage, customer issues, quality debt.
• Own execution and prioritization for your team’s quality commitments.
• Build and/or maintain the dashboards and metrics that give visibility into quality health.
• Bring a proactive, clear quality narrative to your manager and partner teams.
• Partner closely with engineering managers, PMs, designers, and peer QE managers.
• Set up team processes (release pipelines, test planning, escalations, etc) that hold up without you checking every step.
• Own a portfolio-level view of quality.

Skills

QA leadership

Test strategy

Automation

Mentoring

GenAI evaluation

Stakeholder alignment

Tools

Allure TestOps

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

AlphaSense is seeking a hands-on, working manager to lead a team of quality engineers, hiring, performance management, and career growth while making critical testing strategy calls and addressing quality debt. You will balance people leadership with technical depth to ensure high-quality releases.

In this role you’ll own test plans, dashboards, and metrics, partnering with engineering managers, PMs, designers, and QE peers to deliver reliable software.