Senior Manager, QA Engineering

Lever, Inc.; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Home office budget

Flexible time off

Competitive compensation

Equity where applicable

Healthcare benefits

Mental wellbeing support

Professional development budget

Global collaboration opportunities

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, QA Engineering to lead end-to-end quality across a complex enterprise software platform. You will own QA strategy, establish quality gates, and influence release decisions while remaining connected to hands-on testing.

You will lead multiple QA teams, align across engineering, product, UX, and field teams, and drive reliability, performance, and automation initiatives in a global remote setting.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading QA or quality engineering in large engineering orgs (100–500+ employees).
• Experience defining end-to-end QA strategies, quality gates, testing standards, and data-driven decisions across teams.
• Demonstrated leadership managing managers, senior specialists, principal engineers and ICs.
• Experience scaling QA organizations with scalable structures and operating models.
• Strong technical understanding of enterprise software testing, automation, reliability, and high-load testing.
• Experience supporting multiple product personas: developers, business users, operators.
• Ability to work across Kubernetes, cloud, microservices and related environments.
• Knowledge of automation with CI/CD integration; familiarity with Playwright or TestRail is a plus.
• Experience with chaos engineering or performance benchmarking is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the end-to-end QA strategy, establishing quality gates, standards, processes, and cross-team accountability.
• Lead and scale two QA teams spanning functional and reliability engineering, including managers and engineers.
• Evolve the QA organization and operating model to support growth and improved engineering impact.
• Partner with senior engineering leadership to strengthen reliability, performance, and high-load testing practices.
• Guide automation strategy and quality processes enabling teams to deliver reliable outcomes.
• Establish quality coverage across users, developers, and operators in Kubernetes, cloud, and bare-metal environments.
• Develop actionable quality metrics, dashboards, and reporting for leadership decisions.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, UX, docs, and field teams to embed quality throughout development.
• Stay connected to hands-on QA execution while providing strategic direction.
• Drive continuous improvement and cultural change across QA practices and automation.

Skills

QA leadership

End-to-end QA strategy

Kubernetes & cloud

Automation & CI/CD

Reliability testing

Stakeholder alignment

Performance testing

High-load testing

Tools

Playwright

TestRail

CI/CD tooling

Chaos engineering tools

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Manager, QA Engineering based in Saudi Arabia.

This is a senior engineering leadership opportunity focused on defining and scaling quality across a complex enterprise software platform. You'll own the end-to-end QA strategy, establish quality gates, and use meaningful metrics to influence release and roadmap decisions. The role combines strategic leadership with enough technical depth to remain connected to hands-on quality engineering. You'll lead multiple QA teams and evolve their structure as the organization scales. The position also requires close collaboration across engineering, product, UX, documentation, and field teams to establish shared quality standards. You'll work in a global, remote environment with a strong focus on reliability, performance, automation, and continuous improvement.

Accountabilities

• Own and drive the end-to-end QA strategy, establishing quality gates, standards, processes, and cross-team accountability.

• Lead and scale two QA teams spanning functional and reliability engineering, including managers, a principal engineer, and individual contributors.

• Evolve the QA organization and operating model to support growth, improve effectiveness, and maximize engineering impact.

• Partner with senior and principal engineering leadership to strengthen reliability, performance, resilience, and high-load testing practices.

• Guide automation strategy and quality processes that enable engineering teams to deliver reliable, high-quality outcomes efficiently.

• Establish comprehensive quality coverage across business users, developers, and administrators/operators in Kubernetes, cloud, and bare-metal environments.

• Develop actionable quality metrics, dashboards, and reporting that provide leadership with data-driven insights for roadmap, release, and quality decisions.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, UX, documentation, and field teams to embed quality throughout the product development lifecycle.

• Stay connected to hands-on QA execution and technical challenges while providing strategic direction and organizational leadership.

• Drive continuous improvement and cultural change across QA practices, processes, automation, reliability, and engineering quality.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading QA or quality engineering functions within engineering organizations of approximately 100-500 employees, with demonstrable organizational and quality impact.

• Strong experience defining and implementing end-to-end QA strategies, quality gates, testing standards, and data-informed quality decision-making across multiple teams.

• Demonstrated leadership experience managing managers, senior technical specialists, principal-level engineers, and individual contributors.

• Experience scaling QA organizations and developing structures, processes, and operating models that support business and engineering growth.

• Strong technical understanding of complex enterprise software products, including functional testing, automation, reliability, performance, resilience, and high-load testing.

• Experience covering multiple product personas, including developers, business users, and technical administrators or operators.

• Ability to work across Kubernetes, cloud, microservices, and related operational environments.

• Strong understanding of automation and CI/CD-integrated testing practices; experience with tools such as Playwright or TestRail is advantageous.

• Experience with chaos engineering, advanced reliability testing, or performance benchmarking is a plus.

• Ability to influence engineering, product, UX, documentation, and customer-facing teams around shared quality objectives.

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and organizational leadership skills.

• Comfortable balancing long-term QA strategy with practical involvement in technical execution.

• Experience in enterprise software, workflow automation, or similarly complex technical products is highly relevant.

• Ability and willingness to use the product as part of the role.

Benefits

• Fully remote work with flexible working arrangements.

• Home office budget and coworking space support.

• Flexible time off.

• Competitive, transparent, location-based compensation.

• Equity through a Virtual Stock Option Plan where applicable.

• Locally tailored healthcare benefits.

• Global mental wellbeing support through Modern Health.

• Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account supporting health, family, personal interests, experiences, and financial wellbeing, launching in 2026 and scaling to €1,000 annually from 2027.

• Retirement and pension plans, often with company contributions.

• Life and disability insurance where applicable.

• Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-directed professional development, including courses, certifications, and books.

• Annual company kickoff events, team offsites, local gatherings, and connection budgets supporting in-person collaboration.

• Inclusive, global working environment with opportunities to collaborate across diverse teams and cultures.