Filevine

Quality Engineering Manager

Job Description

Role Summary:

We are seeking a highly technical people leader to serve as our SDET Manager, responsible for guiding the strategy, architecture, and execution of the next generation of AI-augmented quality engineering across the organization. This role requires both deep hands-on expertise and strong leadership capability to scale a high-performing automation team while driving measurable improvements in reliability and product quality.

In addition to advancing traditional automation frameworks, this role will lead and support the adoption of AI-driven and agentic automation solutions to increase test intelligence, reduce operational friction, and accelerate quality feedback loops across the SDLC.


Responsibilities
  • Lead and mentor a team of SDETs and automation engineers, setting clear standards for technical excellence and delivery
  • Drive the strategy and implementation of AI-powered and agentic automation solutions to improve defect detection, test generation, test maintenance, and deployment validation
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging AI tooling into the quality engineering ecosystem, ensuring scalable, secure, and measurable impact on release confidence and automation efficiency
  • Lead and monitor reduction of change failure rates through improved test architecture, release validation, and deployment safeguards
  • Expand and optimize automated test coverage across UI, API, integration, and backend systems
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to proactively identify risk and improve release stability
  • Champion continuous improvement through root cause analysis, defect trend evaluation, and performance monitoring
  • Remain hands-on when necessary, reviewing automation design, validating technical approaches, and guiding architectural decisions
  • Drive continuous improvement by identifying gaps in processes, tooling, and test coverage

  • Knowledge & Skills
  • Strong background in automation framework design and scalable test architecture
  • Deep experience with modern automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or similar platforms
  • Proficiency in object-oriented programming languages such as C# or Python
  • Experience validating distributed and integrated systems, including microservices
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and DevOps practices
  • Experience implementing automated testing across multiple layers:API, integration, system, end-to-end, etc.
  • Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and modern SDLC practices
  • Ability to align automation strategy with emerging technologies and evolving platform architecture

  • Qualifications
  • Proven experience leading quality or automation teams in a fast-paced engineering environment
  • 5+ years of managing distributed or remote quality teams
  • 10+ years of hands-on automation development experience
  • Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders
  • Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate quality metrics into business outcomes
  • Effective communicator who can simplify complex technical topics for executive audiences
  • Practical experience designing or implementing AI-driven automation solutions, including intelligent test generation, self-healing frameworks, or agent-based validation systems 
  • Strong understanding of how large language models and agentic workflows can be leveraged within CI/CD pipelines to enhance quality signal, coverage optimization, and risk detection