Engineering Manager – SDET

Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Engineering Manager - SDET to lead and mentor our Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) team. This role is crucial for scaling our engineering quality and ensuring a seamless, high-performance product delivery pipeline. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who is passionate about quality culture, test automation, and driving continuous process improvement across the entire engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Culture

• Evangelize a Quality-Focused Culture: Champion and drive a "Quality is everyone's responsibility" mindset across all engineering teams, influencing developers to adopt robust testing and quality practices early and throughout the development lifecycle.

• Team Leadership and Mentorship: Lead, manage, and mentor a team of high-performing SDETs. Conduct regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, and facilitate career development and training plans.

• Define Quality Strategy: Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to define the overall quality strategy, objectives, and key results (OKRs) for the organization.

Test Automation & Efficiency

• Improve Testing Efficiency and Practices: Constantly evaluate and refine existing testing processes to maximize efficiency, reduce time-to-market, and minimize post-release defects.

• Drive Automation: Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, reliable, and comprehensive automation frameworks for various application layers (UI, API, performance, security).

• Pipeline Excellence: Design and implement a robust and efficient testing pipeline that fully integrates automation into our Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) process. This includes integrating automated test runs, reporting, and quality gates.

Tooling and Innovation

• Technology Scouting: Research, evaluate, and introduce new automated testing tools and technologies into the SDET team's toolbox to maintain a cutting-edge and efficient testing environment.

• Technical Architecture: Guide the team in creating high-quality, reusable, and maintainable test code and infrastructure.

• Reporting and Metrics: Establish and track key quality metrics (e.g., test coverage, defect leakage, automation ROI) and provide clear, actionable insights to engineering leadership.