Mobile QA Engineering Manager, Central Europe

Zoolatech; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoolatech is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead offshore QA teams coordinating with onshore mobile development squads for iOS/Android. You will ensure quality is built in, not tested in later stages, and act as a hands-on leader with accountability across cross-timezone partners.

The role requires deep experience in mobile delivery, test strategy, and CI/CD integrations, with a focus on reducing flaky tests, improving triage, and delivering reliable releases from Poland, preferably Warsaw,

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering or QA.
• 3+ years managing engineers (including managers-of-leads or multiple sub-teams).
• Proven QA/quality engineering leadership for mobile apps (iOS/Android) with large user base.
• Experience working across distributed, multi-time-zone teams (offshore/nearshore vs onshore).
• Hands-on familiarity with mobile delivery lifecycle: sprint cadence, release trains, staged rollouts, app store processes.

Responsibilities

• Act as single point of accountability for QA–dev agreements: ready/done criteria, bug triage SLAs, handoffs, escalation paths.
• Embed QA early in lifecycle: refinement participation, three-amigos, acceptance criteria reviews, design walkthroughs.
• Design async-first comms across time zones: handoffs, dashboards, overnight test runs ownership.
• Run cross-team quality forums: quality sync, release readiness, defect retrospectives.
• Reduce friction between QA and squads; build trust and reduce ambiguous bugs, flaky tests, late builds.

Skills

QA leadership

Mobile apps

Cross-timezone collaboration

Release planning

Defect triage

Test strategy

CI/CD

Tools

Jira

TestRail

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Bitrise

XCUITest

Espresso

Job description

Zoolatech is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead offshore QA teams coordinating with onshore mobile development squads for iOS/Android. You will ensure quality is built in, not tested in later stages, and act as a hands-on leader with accountability across cross-timezone partners.

The role requires deep experience in mobile delivery, test strategy, and CI/CD integrations, with a focus on reducing flaky tests, improving triage, and delivering reliable releases from Poland, preferably Warsaw,