01Overview
The Opportunity
We're not looking for a test manager. We're looking for a quality engineer who leadssomeone who treats testing as a data science problem, not a checklist. You'll own quality across a modern .NET/Angular/SQL SaaS running on Azure, evolve our Playwright-based automation, and embed AI agents to make testing smarter, faster, and self-healing. You'll manage a blended team of automation and manual engineersand stay hands-on enough to debug pipelines, review code, and unblock your team.
Salary: $6,000 - $7,000 USD per month
What You'll Own
Strategy & Forward-Looking Roadmap
Define a 1218 month quality roadmap that balances speed, coverage, and cost AI-assisted workflowstest generation from production logs, flaky-test auto-quarantine, visual AI diffing, and predictive risk-based test selection Shift quality left (design/PR reviews) and right (production observability, canary monitoring) Establish quality SLOs (flakiness <5%, suite runtime <15 min, escape rate <2%)
Hands-On Technical Leadership
Architect test frameworks that scale across microservices and Angular frontends Design SQL test data strategiessynthetic data, anonymized production clones, and on-demand seed scripts Optimize CI/CD quality gates in Azure DevOps with intelligent parallelization Leverage Azure services for test infrastructurecontainerized test runners, scale sets, and cloud-hosted agent pools
Team & Delivery Optimization
Manage and mentor 510 engineers (mix of automation SDETs and manual testers) Upskill manual engineers into automation engineers within 69 months via pair-coding and structured learning Implement RCA (Root Cause Analysis) disciplineblameless postmortems that drive systemic fixes, not band-aids Optimize for maximum delivery velocityknow when to cut, defer, or automate tests based on risk and ROI
Metrics & Continuous Improvement
Define and track: defect escape rate, MTTR, flakiness %, test pass rate per build, and pipeline reliability Build executive dashboards that translate quality into business metrics (revenue protected, incidents avoided) Run quarterly quality audits to reassess tooling, processes, and team composition
What You Bring
8+ years in QA/QE, with 3+ years managing a hybrid (manual + automation) team in a SaaS environment Deep hands-on experience with Playwright (UI + API) and modern JS/TS testing patterns Strong understanding of .NET (C#) backend and Angular frontend architecturesenough to debug failures and guide testability Solid SQL skillsable to write complex queries for data validation, test seeding, and reporting Proven experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines with quality gates Track record of implementing AI/ML in testingeven if experimentalwith clear outcomes Data-driven decision-makeryou use metrics to optimize, not just report Hands-on enough to jump into a flaky test or pipeline failure personally Coach-firstyou grow people, not just processes Blameless, collaborativeyou partner with devs, product, and ops as equals
How to Stand Out
Share a 1-pager with us:
One metric you'd change and why A specific RCA you led that changed the system, not just the test A case study or before/after snapshot of a team or process you optimizedinclude baseline metrics, what you did, and the outcomes achieved .
