# Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

**Company:** [Sardine](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sardine)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** QA Engineering
**Salary:** $165k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Cypress, Test Automation, CI/CD, Regression Testing, Uat, Exploratory Testing, Quality Kpis, Test Governance, Release Gating, Root Cause Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-08-04

> Leads global quality engineering across a regulated financial technology platform, owning QA strategy, governance, automation, release quality, incident response, and bank deployment validation. Requires 8+ years in software quality, management experience, and expertise in regulated domains and distributed teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end quality strategy across the platform and customer-facing delivery, spanning a globally distributed QA team.
- Establish quality governance for regulated financial institutions, including test strategy standards, coverage metrics, release criteria, and audit-ready evidence.
- Own quality-related incident response, including triage, root-cause analysis, prevention, and post-incident communication.
- Strengthen test automation, CI/release gating, and regression coverage for a real-time, high-throughput platform.
- Partner with Professional Services and Post-Sales teams on UAT, structured acceptance testing, and integration validation for bank and enterprise deployments.
- Shape engineering culture and uphold high quality standards across the organization.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software quality.
- 2+ years managing QA or Quality Engineering teams.
- Experience owning quality in a regulated domain such as banking, payments, or fintech.
- Familiarity with audits, UAT, and documented test governance.
- Strong quality engineering mindset covering test automation, CI/CD gating, coverage measurement, manual testing, and exploratory testing.
- Hands-on experience building test automation with Cypress or similar tools.
- Experience building high-performing distributed teams across multiple time zones and cultures.
- Metrics-driven approach with the ability to define and report quality KPIs.

## Benefits and Compensation
- Generous cash and equity compensation.
- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested options.
- Remote-first culture with work-from-anywhere flexibility.
- Flexible paid time off and year-end break.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents in the US and Canada.
- 4% 401(k) or RRSP matching in the US and Canada.
- MacBook Pro.
- Home-office setup stipend.
- Monthly meal and social meet-up stipends.
- Annual health and wellness stipend.
- Annual learning stipend.

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