The Prospect

We're not looking for a test manager. We're looking for a quality engineer who leads—someone who treats testing as a data science problem, not a checklist. You'll own quality across a modern .NET/Angular/SQL SaaS running on Azure, evolve our Playwright-based automation, and embed AI agents to make testing smarter, faster, and self-healing. You'll manage a blended team of automation and manual engineers—and stay hands-on enough to debug pipelines, review code, and unblock your team.

Salary: $6,000 - $7,000 USD per month

What You'll Own

Strategy & Forward-Looking Roadmap

- Define a 12–18 month quality roadmap that balances speed, coverage, and cost
- AI-assisted workflows—test generation from production logs, flaky-test auto-quarantine, visual AI diffing, and predictive risk-based test selection
- Shift quality left (design/PR reviews) and right (production observability, canary monitoring)
- Establish quality SLOs (flakiness <5%, suite runtime <15 min, escape rate <2%)

Hands-On Technical Leadership

- Architect test frameworks that scale across microservices and Angular frontends
- Design SQL test data strategies—synthetic data, anonymized production clones, and on-demand seed scripts
- Optimize CI/CD quality gates in Azure DevOps with intelligent parallelization
- Leverage Azure services for test infrastructure—containerized test runners, scale sets, and cloud-hosted agent pools

Team & Delivery Optimization

- Manage and mentor 5–10 engineers (mix of automation SDETs and manual testers)
- Upskill manual engineers into automation engineers within 6–9 months via pair-coding and structured learning
- Implement RCA (Root Cause Analysis)



discipline—blameless postmortems that drive systemic fixes, not band-aids
- Optimize for maximum delivery velocity—know when to cut, defer, or automate tests based on risk and ROI

Metrics & Continuous Improvement

- Define and track: defect escape rate, MTTR, flakiness %, test pass rate per build, and pipeline reliability
- Build executive dashboards that translate quality into business metrics (revenue protected, incidents avoided)
- Run quarterly quality audits to reassess tooling, processes, and team composition

What You Bring

- 8+ years in QA/QE, with 3+ years managing a hybrid (manual + automation) team in a SaaS environment
- Deep hands-on experience with Playwright (UI + API) and modern JS/TS testing patterns
- Strong understanding of .NET (C#) backend and Angular frontend architectures—enough to debug failures and guide testability
- Solid SQL skills—able to write complex queries for data validation, test seeding, and reporting
- Proven experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines with quality gates
- Track record of implementing AI/ML in testing—even if experimental—with clear outcomes
- Data-driven decision-maker—you use metrics to optimize, not just report
- Hands-on enough to jump into a flaky test or pipeline failure personally
- Coach-first—you grow people, not just processes
- Blameless, collaborative—you partner with devs, product, and ops as equals

How to Stand Out

Share a 1-pager with us:

- One metric you'd change and why
- A specific RCA you led that changed the system, not just the test
- A case study or before/after snapshot of a team or process you optimized—include baseline metrics, what you did, and the outcomes achieved

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