Quality Engineering Manager

About

We are looking for a Quality Engineering Manager to directly manage a team of 5–8 quality engineers, own our test automation strategy, and embed quality into the full development lifecycle. This is a player-coach role — you will be embedded into a sprint team and expected to carry an individual contributor workload alongside your management responsibilities, including testing tickets, regression, and hands-on automation work. This requires strong technical depth, critical thinking, CI/CD integration, and application of AI-assisted testing — combined with direct people management authority including hiring, performance management, and career development.

Responsibilities

Quality Leadership

• Define, lead, and audit progress on quality initiatives aligned to project and product needs.
• Drive products from inception to release through technical and thought leadership on quality.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve frameworks, methodologies, and processes for test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Lead standards-based compliance and process improvement efforts as needed.

Test Automation & AI

• Bring an AI-first mindset to all aspects of the test engineering lifecycle — from test design and generation to execution, triage, and reporting.
• Design, build, and maintain automation frameworks from scratch for large-scale, cross-platform applications for API and or UI testing — including custom C#, Playwright or UFT frameworks.
• Incorporate AI tools into test automation workflows — including AI-assisted test generation, self-healing frameworks, and intelligent test selection.
• Adopt emerging AI/ML testing tools to improve coverage and reduce manual effort.

CI/CD Integration

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) to enable fast feedback loops.
• Define and enforce quality gates within deployment pipelines to prevent regressions from reaching production.
• Monitor pipeline health, test flakiness, and execution times; drive improvements continuously.

Testing & Defect Management

• Embedded on a sprint team as an individual contributor — actively pick up and execute testing tickets, adding automated tests, create and review pull requests, regression testing and exploratory testing alongside the team.
• Set and enforce standards for exploratory, functional, and regression testing across the team.
• Oversee root cause analysis on defects; ensure clear, consistent bug reporting practices.
• Work with engineers and support teams to identify, triage, prioritize, and drive resolution of defects.

People Management

• Directly manage 5–8 quality engineers — this includes hiring, onboarding, along with performance management, having difficult conversations and compensation input.
• Set and communicate team and individual objectives and KPIs; hold the team accountable to them.
• Conduct structured performance reviews; provide timely, constructive feedback and address underperformance directly by assessing individual skills, identifying gaps, and building targeted development plans and coaching programs.
• Recognize and retain high performers; actively manage team health and morale.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in software quality engineering
• 2+ years as a direct people manager with a team of 4 or more direct reports
• Hands-on experience with test automation (.net/. net core/ C#/ Api Testing/ UI testing with Playwright/Selenium/Cypress preferred) and in integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical experience using AI tools in test automation workflows.
• Proven track record of conducting performance reviews, making compensation recommendations, and managing full employee lifecycle including difficult conversations.
• Strong root cause analysis skills across complex, cross-functional and cross-product defects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare IT or regulated software experience (HIPAA, ONC, FDA).
• Experience with NUnit, xUnit, or Playwright in .NET environments.
• Familiarity with AI tools and testing platforms (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Xray).
• Performance/load testing experience (e.g., k6, JMeter, Gatling).
• Agile delivery experience.

Compensation Range

$113,254-$164,785

Benefits

• Holidays
• Vacation
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Company paid life insurance
• Retirement savings

Additional Information

Visa Sponsorship is not offered for this position.

Veradigm is an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants for North American based positions must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada.