Senior Manager, QA Engineering

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About the Role:

Camunda is hiring a Senior Manager, QA Engineering to lead the end-to-end QA strategy for Camunda 8 — elevating quality governance with rigorous quality gates, outcome-driven automation, and strategic reporting that guides roadmap and release decisions. They will manage two teams (functional and reliability) comprising 12 ICs, a principal engineer, and a manager; evolve the structure for scale; and ensure comprehensive coverage across business users, developers, and admins/operators in Kubernetes, cloud, and bare-metal environments. This first-of-its-kind role reports directly to the VP of Engineering.

What you'll be doing:
* Own and drive the end-to-end QA strategy for Camunda 8, establishing quality gates and cross-team accountability.
Own and drive the end-to-end QA strategy for Camunda 8, establishing quality gates and cross-team accountability.
* Partner with principal engineering to mature reliability, performance, and resilience testing.
Partner with principal engineering to mature reliability, performance, and resilience testing.
* Guide automation strategy and QA processes to enable teams to deliver high-quality outcomes efficiently.
Guide automation strategy and QA processes to enable teams to deliver high-quality outcomes efficiently.
* Develop actionable quality metrics, dashboards, and reports that inform leadership and roadmap decisions.
Develop actionable quality metrics, dashboards, and reports that inform leadership and roadmap decisions.
* Lead and scale QA teams — managers, principal engineers, and ICs — evolving structure for maximum impact.
Lead and scale QA teams — managers, principal engineers, and ICs — evolving structure for maximum impact.
* Influence cross-functional stakeholders (engineering, product, UX, documentation, field) to embed quality across the organization.
Influence cross-functional stakeholders (engineering, product, UX, documentation, field) to embed quality across the organization.

What you bring:
* Ability and/or willingness to useour product.
Ability and/or willingness to useour product.
* Proven track record leading QA in engineering organizations of 100–500 people, with measurable impact.
Proven track record leading QA in engineering organizations of 100–500 people, with measurable impact.
* Ability to define and implement end-to-end QA strategy, quality gates, and data-informed decision-making across multiple teams.
Ability to define and implement end-to-end QA strategy, quality gates, and data-informed decision-making across multiple teams.
* Comfort staying connected to hands-on QA execution while leading strategically.
Comfort staying connected to hands-on QA execution while leading strategically.
* Experience leveling up QA for complex technical products, including developer/admin persona coverage and high-load, performance, resilience testing.
Experience leveling up QA for complex technical products, including developer/admin persona coverage and high-load, performance, resilience testing.
* Skill aligning engineering, product, UX, documentation, and field teams around shared quality goals.
Skill aligning engineering, product, UX, documentation, and field teams around shared quality goals.
* Enterprise software / workflow automation background.
Enterprise software / workflow automation background.

Nice-to-haves:
* Deep understanding of Kubernetes, cloud, microservices, and related operational challenges.
Deep understanding of Kubernetes, cloud, microservices, and related operational challenges.
* Hands-on experience with Playwright, TestRail, or CI/CD-integrated testing environments.
Hands-on experience with Playwright, TestRail, or CI/CD-integrated testing environments.
* Chaos engineering or advanced reliability/performance benchmarking experience.
Chaos engineering or a