QA Engineering Leader — Quality Strategy & Automation

Camunda; New York (NY); On-site; USD 176,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Annual team kickoff travel

Live Well program

Learning budget

Equity options

Job summary

Camunda is hiring a Senior Manager, QA Engineering to lead end-to-end QA strategy for Camunda 8, establishing quality gates and cross-team accountability. You will manage two teams and evolve the structure for scale across Kubernetes, cloud, and bare-metal environments.

You will guide automation, develop actionable metrics, and deliver reports that inform roadmap decisions while influencing engineers, product, UX, and field teams to embed quality at every level.

Qualifications

• Lead QA for organizations with 100–500 people and measurable impact.
• Define and implement end-to-end QA strategy and quality gates.
• Balance hands-on QA with strategic leadership.
• Align quality goals across engineering, product, UX, and field.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end QA strategy for Camunda 8.
• Mature reliability and performance testing with principal engineers.
• Develop quality metrics, dashboards, and reports for leadership.
• Scale QA teams and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Guide automation strategy to improve efficiency.
• Embed quality across the organization.

Skills

QA strategy

Leadership

Quality gates

Cross-team collaboration

Data-driven decisions

Reliability testing

Performance testing

Developer persona coverage

Tools

Playwright

TestRail

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Cloud testing

Job description

Camunda is hiring a Senior Manager, QA Engineering to lead end-to-end QA strategy for Camunda 8, establishing quality gates and cross-team accountability. You will manage two teams and evolve the structure for scale across Kubernetes, cloud, and bare-metal environments.

You will guide automation, develop actionable metrics, and deliver reports that inform roadmap decisions while influencing engineers, product, UX, and field teams to embed quality at every level.