Senior QA & Automation Leader — Release Excellence

AmaWaterways River Cruises; Calabasas (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

AmaWaterways River Cruises is seeking a Manager, Quality Assurance (QA Manager) in Calabasas, CA. The role leads a QA team across web, mobile-web, backend services, and integrations, driving end-to-end QA strategy and automation.

The candidate will mentor QA specialists, establish standards, and own release readiness with strong collaboration with DevOps and engineering leadership. Bachelor's degree and 7+ years QA experience required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 7+ years of professional QA with 3+ years in lead/management roles.
• Proven ability to build, scale, and lead QA teams.
• Strong hands-on in test automation and CI/CD integration.
• Experience with QA strategy, governance, and risk-based testing.

Responsibilities

• Defines and owns end-to-end QA strategy across web, mobile-web, backend, and integrations.
• Leads and mentors QA team, automation engineers, and SDETs.
• Establishes QA standards, test plans, regression suites, and release sign-off.
• Drives shift-left testing and embeds quality across engineering.
• Oversees CI/CD integration of automated tests and quality gates.
• Owns release readiness and risk assessments for deployments.
• Provides regular quality reporting to leadership and stakeholders.
• Manages external QA vendors and tooling partnerships.

Skills

QA leadership

Quality strategy

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring

Agile/Scrum

Risk-based testing

Education

Bachelor’s Degree (BA/BS)

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Postman/Newman

REST Assured

Pact

Jira

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Git

SQL

Job description

AmaWaterways River Cruises is seeking a Manager, Quality Assurance (QA Manager) in Calabasas, CA. The role leads a QA team across web, mobile-web, backend services, and integrations, driving end-to-end QA strategy and automation.

The candidate will mentor QA specialists, establish standards, and own release readiness with strong collaboration with DevOps and engineering leadership. Bachelor's degree and 7+ years QA experience required.