Global QA Manager: Release Quality & Strategy

Huckleberry Labs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Health

Vision

Dental

Paid parental leave for primary and...

401k match

Job summary

Huckleberry Labs is seeking a QA Manager to lead a globally distributed team of 12 QA engineers, spanning manual and automated testing. You’ll own QA strategy, staffing, standards, and release readiness, reporting to the CTO and shaping how we ship reliable, user-friendly experiences.

This role emphasizes shift-left practices, risk assessment, and quality metrics. You’ll collaborate with product and engineering to reduce post-release defects and drive cross-functional quality improvements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of total experience within QA.
• 3+ years of QA management experience, including the management of globally distributed teams.
• Excellent People Management skills with a demonstrated ability to develop team members, manage performance, and build a high-performing culture.
• Solution-oriented leader able to manage quality incidents with a level head, focusing on root causes and scalable solutions.
• Strong communicator able to articulate quality status, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mobile QA subject matter expert across manual and automated QA — regression testing, test coverage, and device/OS matrix strategy.
• Demonstrated ownership of release readiness decisions, including a track record of reducing post-release defects or hotfix frequency.
• AI-native QA practice — you use AI daily in your own workflow and have shipped production QA processes that depend on it, not pilots.
• Experience designing and implementing new QA approaches in an organization (e.g. shift left)

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a globally distributed team of QA engineers across manual and automated testing.
• Own the go/no-go call on release readiness and be accountable for it.
• Identify and surface quality risks early in the release cycle so engineering leadership can make informed decisions on scope, prioritization, and timing.
• Negotiate release trade-offs with product and engineering stakeholders to protect release date and user experience.
• Drive down post-release defect and hotfix rates; monitor production quality and respond to issues.
• Provide visibility to leadership on quality coverage and KPIs; develop and execute plans for efficient test coverage.
• Champion shift-left quality practices and establish QA standards across teams.

Skills

QA leadership

People management

Release readiness

Quality strategy

AI in QA

Communication

Shift-left QA

Incident management

Tools

Automation tooling

Job description

Huckleberry Labs is seeking a QA Manager to lead a globally distributed team of 12 QA engineers, spanning manual and automated testing. You’ll own QA strategy, staffing, standards, and release readiness, reporting to the CTO and shaping how we ship reliable, user-friendly experiences.

This role emphasizes shift-left practices, risk assessment, and quality metrics. You’ll collaborate with product and engineering to reduce post-release defects and drive cross-functional quality improvements.