[Hiring] Quality Engineering Manager @8am

Role Description

We're hiring a Quality Engineering Manager to lead a team based in Brno. Your team runs a production fleet of AI testing agents — exploratory testing, bug verification, test case generation, PR review — and you own the quality outcomes. You set the standards, grow the careers, and decide where AI runs autonomously and where human oversight tightens. If you want to shape what QE looks like in 2026, this is the role.

This role is hired through an Employer of Record (EOR) partner in the Czech Republic.

What you'll do

• Lead a team of QEs embedded in Agile squads: hiring, coaching, performance management, and growing your ICs along our QE career ladder.
• Manage QE resource allocation across squads: rebalancing coverage as priorities shift, covering for leave or open headcount, and surfacing tradeoffs to Engineering and Product when demand exceeds capacity.
• Own the QE practice across the squads your QEs work in, enforce release readiness standards through our quality gates, and keep Qase traceability coherent.
• Review test plans authored by your 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, balancing the flows customers actually use with the flows we want customers adopting.
• Pull in our nonfunctional QE specialists (Data, Security, Performance) where their expertise sharpens coverage for the squads your QEs are in.
• Partner with Customer Support and Customer Success to bring customer signal into QE, positioning your team as customer advocates who catch failure modes before they become widespread.
• Own post-release quality: driving QE response and root cause analysis when escapes happen, and feeding those learnings back into gates, test coverage, and process.
• Enforce existing QE processes and drive continuous improvement. Contribute to Themis, our Python/PyTest/Playwright-based automation framework that implements our quality gates.

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing a quality-focused engineering team, with a track record of driving defect leakage or equivalent quality metrics down and sustaining them as the codebase and team grow.
• Strong judgment under ambiguity and proactive communication in all directions.
• An active view of AI in QE.
• Technical breadth and depth in both QE practice and the products you'll cover.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.

Requirements

• You understand the QE mindset: defining what good looks like, owning quality outcomes at the squad level, and partnering with Tooling and Automation to keep automation reliable and well-maintained, with zero tolerance for flakey tests.
• You surface risks and quality signals early, with context and a proposed path, to your team, to Engineering Managers, to Product, and to leadership.
• You can present quality metrics and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership and represent the Quality Engineering team's position in cross-functional debates.
• Broad enough to engage credibly with engineering peers across multiple products and verticals on test strategy, critical automation paths, and tooling decisions, and deep enough to mentor your ICs on their actual work: test design, debugging a flaky suite, decomposing a complex feature for coverage, reviewing automation critically.

Benefits

• Performance bonus opportunities and employee referral rewards.
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) 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 from 8am.
• 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.