Quality Engineering Manager

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Responsibilities

• ▹Lead a team of QEs embedded in Agile squads: hiring, coaching, performance management and growing ICs along the QE career ladder
• ▹Manage QE resource allocation across squads, rebalancing coverage as priorities shift and covering for leave or open headcount
• ▹Own the QE practice across the squads, enforce release readiness standards through quality gates and keep Qase traceability coherent
• ▹Review test plans authored by the team and raise the bar on coverage, clarity and maintainability
• ▹Partner with peer QE managers, the Tooling and Automation team, Data Engineering and Product to identify critical automation paths and build them into the quality gates
• ▹Pull in nonfunctional QE specialists (Data, Security, Performance) where their expertise sharpens coverage
• ▹Partner with Customer Support and Customer Success to bring customer signal into QE
• ▹Own post-release quality: driving QE response and root cause analysis when escapes happen, and feeding learnings back into gates, test coverage and process
• ▹Enforce existing QE processes and drive continuous improvement
• ▹Contribute to Themis, the Python/PyTest/Playwright-based automation framework that implements the quality gates

Requirements

• ▹3+ years managing a quality-focused engineering team, with a track record of driving defect leakage or equivalent quality metrics down and sustaining them
• ▹Understanding of the QE mindset: defining what good looks like, owning quality outcomes at squad level, zero tolerance for flaky tests
• ▹Strong judgment under ambiguity and proactive communication in all directions, surfacing risks and quality signals early with context and a proposed path
• ▹Ability to present quality metrics and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership
• ▹An active view of AI in QE: rigor in how AI gets used, ensuring AI output is reviewed before it ships
• ▹Technical breadth and depth in QE practice and the products covered, enough to engage credibly with engineering peers and mentor ICs on test design, flaky suite debugging and coverage decomposition
• ▹Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools to improve workflows, enhance decision-making or drive innovation

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Performance bonus opportunities and employee referral rewards
• ▹Flexible time off and 13 paid public holidays aligned with the Czech calendar
• ▹Paid sick leave with additional support through the Czech social security system
• ▹Maternity, paternity and parental leave in line with Czech regulations, plus additional paid paternity leave
• ▹Full statutory benefits, including public health insurance, social security, pension and work accident coverage
• ▹Access to Coursera (including Gen AI Academy) and ongoing professional development
• ▹Clear growth paths, regular feedback and opportunities for advancement
• ▹Be a founding engineer of the new Brno R&D hub: after a brief 1-6 month integration with U.S. teams, fully autonomous, locally-led squads form, with clear paths to Staff and leadership roles
• ▹International company environment with collaboration across Europe and the U.S.
• ▹Opportunities to travel for company events, including potential U.S. visits
• ▹Local team events, outings, and wellness and learning programs
• ▹The AI-first transformation: building a secure, massive-scale Unified AI Platform

About the company

8am builds software that helps professionals run stronger businesses. Its platform powers payments, client experience and operational workflows for legal, accounting and other service businesses, and is used by more than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. every day.