Global Payments Quality Engineering Manager

Boku; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Boku is seeking an experienced Quality Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team of SDETs responsible for quality across payment platforms. You will steer automation strategy, collaborate with Product, Engineering, Operations, Security, and Platform teams, and guide decisions in ambiguous environments.

The role emphasizes people leadership, technical credibility, and the ability to drive quality at scale, with a focus on modern testing, AI-assisted approaches, and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Software Testing / Quality Engineering.
• 3+ years of people management experience leading SDET or QA teams.
• Proven experience leading quality engineering teams within product-based organizations.
• Strong technical background in test automation, quality engineering, and engineering best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Java and automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or similar.
• Experience testing distributed systems and microservices-based applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of SDETs
• Create an environment focused on accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence
• Support career development, coaching, performance management, and hiring activities
• Define and evolve testing strategies, automation frameworks, and quality practices
• Partner with Engineering and Product teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle
• Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, automation effectiveness, reliability, and release confidence
• Review technical approaches and provide guidance on automation, testing architecture, and quality risks
• Lead quality initiatives across multiple concurrent projects and workstreams
• Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Operations, Security, and Platform teams, influencing decisions and driving alignment
• Balance competing priorities and make effective decisions in dynamic, fast-changing environments
• Communicate risks, trade-offs, and delivery expectations clearly to stakeholders
• Establish and track quality metrics, test effectiveness, automation coverage, and delivery performance
• Champion process improvements and engineering best practices
• Drive adoption of modern testing approaches, including AI-assisted quality engineering and automation

Skills

Quality engineering

Test automation

Java

CI/CD

Selenium

Playwright

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Boku is seeking an experienced Quality Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team of SDETs responsible for quality across payment platforms. You will steer automation strategy, collaborate with Product, Engineering, Operations, Security, and Platform teams, and guide decisions in ambiguous environments.

The role emphasizes people leadership, technical credibility, and the ability to drive quality at scale, with a focus on modern testing, AI-assisted approaches, and continuous improvement