Engineering Manager (Quality Engineering)

We are looking for a Quality Engineering Manager with experience in software quality in a high-growth company. You will be a player/coach with a primary focus on driving our quality and automation/technical initiatives. You will design/track the high business impact quality Metrics and processes to continuously improve product quality for stability, functionality, and performance. You must have hands-on experience managing critical issues, assessing problems and providing thoughtful solutions while keeping a calm demeanor. He/She will be a point of contact for Quality Engineering at Apollo.io worldwide and must therefore be comfortable and confident liaising with remote teams and senior leaders. You will be guiding a high-performing QA team as part of your responsibilities.

Your responsibilities

• Work in partnership with the Sr Quality Engineering Manager to own, develop, implement and maintain comprehensive quality assurance policies within QE/SDET Org and procedures to ensure the quality and reliability of product
• Manage testing activities by assigning resources and supervising the execution of test activities
• Partner with engineering squads to address the defects and guarantee the delivery of top-notch products
• Create/Update Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for quality engineering and present them to relevant parties - Take corrective measures if any discrepancies are identified
• Collaborate with the Engineering team - The goal is to automate required functional/non-functional/infrastructure features and requires close collaboration between the Quality Engineering and Development teams to achieve this in every project release
• Continuously improve the quality of production systems, participate and drive the RCA (Root Cause Analysis) process/Quality engineering metrics for production issues and guide engineering team to update quality process accordingly and strategy to improve Quality Engineering KPI’s

What we offer

• Base salary + 10% yearly bonus + equity
• Contract of employment (Polish UoP via Remote.com) + AKUP 50% tax deductible costs with 70% creativity factor
• 100% remote work (we don’t have offices and we don’t plan to have them) - no hybrid, no forcing people to get back to the offices
• Global Allianz Insurance and Medical Package covered by Apollo
• 1200 USD educational budget
• 300 USD Work From Home Stipend
• 4 additional PTO days for Engineering (Rest Days)
• 100% remote work and flexible working hours

Benefits

• private medical care
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• life insurance
• remote work opportunities
• flexible working time
• integration events

What You’ll Love About Apollo

Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees’ careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You’ll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We’re very collaborative at Apollo, so you’ll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You’ll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you’ll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!

Our requirements

• 12+ years of experience with 8 years of experience in Quality Engineering with at least 3+ years in a managerial role
• Experience in concurrently managing high volume or high risk/complex Quality Engineering projects execution
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to provide regular updates to stakeholders and leadership
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to maintain comprehensive documentation
• Proven ability to drive testing strategy for SaaS companies
• Report and drive increased test automation coverage in all areas
• Communicate and coordinate with Development team, Business Analysts, Project Managers, and external stakeholders
• Excellent understanding of automation testing and frameworks (such as Cypress/Playwright) for functional, Non-functional and at infrastructure level
• Working knowledge of development languages (Ruby, Typescript, Javascript)
• Experiences in web services, batch/extract file processing, microservice api level testing
• Expert knowledge of software testing, quality improvement, quality process, quality assurance methodologies, and best practices.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related qualifications
• Solid experience in Agile testing methodologies and best practices.
• Modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies and techniques.
• Synthetic Monitoring and Metrics gathering with tools like NewRelic, GCP Logging, Datadog
• Familiarity with Linux Containers and Virtualisation (Docker)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Github actions.
• Mentor and guide Quality Engineering team to manage quality and improve process efficiency

Optional

• Strong problem-solving abilities and technical reasoning.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering teams.
• Performance benchmarking and capacity planning
• Excellent in defining/tracking Quality Engineering KPI’s and metrics in automated fashion and keep management up to date about same
• Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Knowledge of the challenges faced by software engineers in a modern engineering department.

OUR TECH STACK

Ruby/RoR, Python, React.js, Typescript, Redux, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP.