Senior Manager, QA
CamundaAbout the role
Camunda is the leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes, including high-value knowledge work, across agents, people, and systems. By creating production-ready, enterprise-grade agents with built-in governance, Camunda uniquely delivers trusted AI agents for business-critical processes. Over 700 leading innovators like Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone, rely on Camunda to slash time-to-value from months to days, boost operational efficiency, and elevate customer experiences.
As a fully remote, global company, we’re rewriting the rules of modern business. Named GP Bullhound’s 2024 Top 100 Next Unicorn list, certified as a Great Place to Work, and recognized by Flexa for true flexibility, we’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you’re excited to do meaningful work and make real impact, keep reading, this role could be the one you’ve been waiting for.
About the role:
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, mature reliability testing (performance, resilience, and chaos), and ensure comprehensive coverage across user perspectives—business users (WebApps), developers (SDKs, clients, APIs), and admins/operators in Kubernetes, cloud, and bare‑metal environments—while enabling accurate sizing and benchmarking of real‑world installations; this first‑of‑its‑kind role, reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, operates in an environment where Java, Spring Boot, Go, Helm, Grafana, Playwright, and TestRail are relevant, and drives quality outcomes internally to meet the expectations of our customers and users
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What You’ll Be Doing:
Strategic Quality Leadership
Owns and drives the end-to-end QA strategy for Camunda 8, ensuring alignment with product roadmap and enterprise-quality expectations.
Establishes robust quality governance, including quality gates and cross-team accountability, to reduce risk and improve decision-making.
Reliability & Performance Oversight
Partners with principal engineering to define and mature reliability, performance, and resilience testing.
Ensures comprehensive coverage across all user perspectives and deployment environments, enabling accurate sizing and benchmarking.
Automation & Operational Enablement
Guides automation strategy and QA processes, enabling teams to efficiently deliver high-quality outcomes.
Maintains visibility into testing execution and operational workflows without being directly hands-on.
Data-Driven Insights & Reporting
Develops actionable quality metrics, dashboards, and reports to inform leadership decisions and roadmap planning.
Uses data to identify risks, drive improvements, and communicate QA outcomes across engineering and product teams.
Organizational & Cross-Functional Leadership
Leads and scales QA teams, including managers, principal engineers, and ICs, evolving structure for maximum impact.
Influences cross-functional stakeholders (engineering, product, UX, documentation, field) to embed quality across the organization.
Fosters a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and systemic thinking about product quality.
What You Bring: