EU remote
Manager, QA Engineering
About this role
At Appfire, we believe that great work happens when people get to choose how they work. After 20 years of creating software that empowers teams to break silos and collaborate seamlessly, we've learned that one size does not fit all. We’re a team of 800+ employees, working remotely across 28 countries. Our flagship products include: JXL, Comala Document Management, 7Pace Time Tracker, Jira Misc Workflow Extensions, and BigPicture.
Here you can read some of our customer stories: https://appfire.com/resources/resource-library/customer-stories About the role As a Manager of Quality Assurance at Appfire, you will lead a team of QA engineers responsible for ensuring high-quality, reliable software products. You will shape the team’s roadmap, manage priorities and resources, and drive improvements across test automation, frameworks, and quality processes.
You’ll partner closely with engineering and cross-functional teams to embed testing earlier in the development lifecycle and promote strong practices around code health, testability, and maintainability. A key focus of the role is developing a high-performing, psychologically safe team through coaching, mentoring, clear expectations, and continuous improvement. This is a 100% remote opportunity. What you’ll do: Lead, mentor, and develop the QA team, creating a collaborative, high-performing, and psychologically safe environment.
Define the QA team roadmap, quarterly OKRs, priorities, and project plans, aligning them with wider engineering and business objectives. Monitor quality, test coverage, test gaps, and productivity metrics, using data to identify opportunities and drive improvements. Drive improvements to test framework architecture, automation, and coverage, promoting effective testing strategies and DevOps best practices. Partner with engineering teams to shift testing earlier in the software development lifecycle and improve testability, maintainability, and overall code health.
Establish and promote QA best practices, including appropriate application of automation, the test pyramid, clean code, and sustainable quality processes. Manage team capacity, staffing, workloads, tools, and priorities to ensure projects meet delivery timelines and quality standards. Collaborate with functional managers, process and value stream leaders, and other stakeholders to drive organizational change and achieve shared business objectives.