Engineering Manager, Quality & Test Automation

Alpha Sense

United States

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare services

Relocation support

Vacation upfront (2 weeks)

Lunch benefit

Remote work equipment

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a senior Quality Engineering leader to drive team performance and quality strategy across testing, automation, and tooling. You will own metrics dashboards, collaborate with engineering managers, PMs, designers, and QE peers to ensure high-quality releases and rapid feedback loops.

Remote-friendly, hybrid setup with occasional office visits. You will influence evaluation frameworks, data-driven quality narratives, and scalable test pipelines leveraging AI tools and modern

Qualifications

3+ years in a team management role.
5+ years in quality engineering/quality assurance, Senior/Staff+ level prior to managerial role.
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.
Experience evaluating non-deterministic or generative outputs (LLM/GenAI features).
Familiarity with eval frameworks, golden datasets, or scoring rubrics for measuring output quality.
Deep knowledge in at least one of: Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, or Java.
Strong understanding of testing methodologies and QA domain theory.
Experience with different test automation frameworks.
Strong test design skills on all levels.
Experience with Test Management Systems (e.g., Allure TestOps).
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Kubernetes).
Solid understanding of CI/CD and continuous delivery practices.
Fluency with AI tools, with a track record of using them to raise quality, speed up testing and delivery.
Exposure to search relevance or ranking quality.
Experience setting up and configuring CI/CD tools and pipelines.
Good understanding of GraphQL.
Experience with Performance Engineering (k6 or similar) and Observability (OpenTelemetry/Grafana).

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
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

Team management

Quality engineering

QA/QE leadership

Test automation

Test planning

Test strategy

Quality metrics

Coaching

Generative AI knowledge

Eval frameworks

Java

Python

JavaScript

Kotlin

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

GraphQL

CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Allure TestOps

Performance testing

QA tooling

Tools