Quality Engineering Manager
Global payments company providing localized payment methods and merchant payment services.
About Boku, Inc.
Boku, Inc. operates a global payment network connecting merchants with localized payment methods. Its network reaches more than 7 billion consumer payment accounts in over 90 countries.
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About the Role
You will lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of SDETs while supporting coaching, performance management, career development, and hiring. You will define testing strategies, automation frameworks, and quality practices; embed quality throughout the development lifecycle; improve test coverage, reliability, and release confidence; and guide testing architecture and quality-risk decisions. You will lead quality initiatives across concurrent projects, align cross-functional stakeholders, communicate risks and trade-offs, establish quality metrics, and drive modern, AI-assisted testing and automation practices.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software testing or quality engineering
- 3+ years of people-management experience leading SDET or QA teams
- Experience leading quality engineering teams within product-based organizations
- Test automation, quality engineering, and engineering best-practice expertise
- Hands-on experience with Java and automation tools such as Selenium or Playwright
- Experience testing distributed systems and microservices-based applications
- Experience managing multiple projects and competing priorities
- Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and drive outcomes
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of SDETs
- Support career development, coaching, performance management, and hiring activities
- Define and evolve testing strategies, automation frameworks, and quality practices
- Embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle with Engineering and Product teams
- Improve test coverage, automation effectiveness, reliability, and release confidence
- Review technical approaches and guide automation, testing architecture, and quality-risk decisions
- Lead quality initiatives across multiple projects and workstreams
- Align Engineering, Product, Operations, Security, and Platform stakeholders
- Communicate risks, trade-offs, and delivery expectations to stakeholders
- Establish and track quality metrics, test effectiveness, automation coverage, and delivery performance
- Drive process improvements and adoption of modern testing approaches, including AI-assisted quality engineering and automation