QA Engineering Manager

Camunda is hiring a Senior Manager, QA Engineering to lead the end-to-end QA strategy for Camunda 8 — elevating quality governance with rigorous quality gates, outcome-driven automation, and strategic reporting that guides roadmap and release decisions. They will manage two teams (functional and reliability) comprising 12 ICs, a principal engineer, and a manager; evolve the structure for scale; and ensure comprehensive coverage across business users, developers, and admins/operators in Kubernetes, cloud, and bare-metal environments. This first-of-its-kind role reports directly to the VP of Engineering. What you'll be doing: Own and drive the end-to-end QA strategy for Camunda 8, establishing quality gates and cross-team accountability. Partner with principal engineering to mature reliability, performance, and resilience testing. Guide automation strategy and QA processes to enable teams to deliver high-quality outcomes efficiently. Develop actionable quality metrics, dashboards, and reports that inform leadership and roadmap decisions. Lead and scale QA teams — managers, principal engineers, and ICs — evolving structure for maximum impact. Influence cross-functional stakeholders (engineering, product, UX, documentation, field) to embed quality across the organization. What you bring: Proven track record leading QA in engineering organizations of 100–500 people, with measurable impact. Ability to define and implement end-to-end QA strategy, quality gates, and data-informed decision-making across multiple teams. Comfort staying connected to hands-on QA execution while leading strategically. Experience leveling up QA for complex technical products, including developer/admin persona coverage and high-load, performance, resilience testing. Skill aligning engineering, product, UX, documentation, and field teams around shared quality goals. Enterprise software / workflow automation background. Nice-to-haves: Deep understanding of Kubernetes, cloud, microservices, and related operational challenges. Hands-on experience with Playwright, TestRail, or CI/CD-integrated testing environments. Chaos engineering or advanced reliability/performance benchmarking experience. Proven ability to drive cultural change in QA. This role is an existing vacancy