Hybrid Quality Engineering Manager

at CUBE

• Job title: Quality Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cypress, JMeter, Selenium
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Quality Engineering Manager leading end-to-end integration and performance testing for regulatory compliance solutions. Ensuring software quality through AI-powered tools and effective testing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Set the overall quality direction for the quality engineering group, directly leading a team of end-to-end integration and performance testers.
• Own tooling and test standards, lead the cross-cutting testing guild across UI and API testing, and ensure quality is embedded in delivery across all squads.
• Champion the adoption of AI-powered tools and practices to accelerate testing, improve defect detection, and drive productivity across the quality engineering function.
• Own the quality engineering capability for the group, ensuring teams deliver reliable, performant software through effective testing strategies, tooling, and standards.
• This role contributes to the organisation's mission by setting the quality bar across squads, building and leading a dedicated end-to-end integration and performance testing team, and driving a culture of quality ownership through the testing guild.
• The QA Manager balances people leadership and strategic quality direction with hands-on involvement in test approach, tooling decisions, and mentoring.
• Track and report on quality metrics across the group, using data to drive improvement and demonstrate quality ROI.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of the quality engineering domain and delivery context, with the ability to partner with quality leads on direction.
• Experience leading and managing a QA or test team, including hiring, performance management, and development.
• Expert knowledge of end-to-end integration testing across multi-service architectures.
• Strong experience with performance and load testing tools, approaches, and analysis (e.g. k6, JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent).
• Deep knowledge of both UI testing (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium) and API testing (e.g. Postman, REST Assured, or equivalent) approaches.
• Experience defining and governing testing tooling and standards across multiple teams.
• Ability to set quality metrics, track trends, and use data to drive improvement.
• Exceptional communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders, skilled at quality status and risk communication.
• Experience leading a community of practice or guild model.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills with a track record of developing testers.
• Experience driving adoption of AI-powered tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude, AI-assisted test generation) to accelerate quality engineering practices, including test creation, defect analysis, and performance testing.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Flexible working hours
• Professional development opportunities