Engineering Project and QA Manager

Key Activities

• Keep engineering projects organized and moving: track what's in flight, flag what's blocked, and help the team stay clear on what's next
• Own quality: test what we build, use AI to automate the repetitive parts, and write Capybara tests where they're worth it
• Run the bug pipeline: reproduce issues, prioritize them, route them to the right engineer, and confirm the fix
• Be the day-to-day connection between the engineers, the product team, and the internal teams who use our tools
• Work with us to determine when adding process or rituals might be useful, but being thoughtful about the cost and friction
• Report on status so the team and leadership know where things stand

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a project management, delivery, or QA role, ideally on a small engineering team
• Technical enough to work closely with engineers: you can reproduce a bug, read a stack trace, and write a test case to automate fixing it
• Hands-on QA experience: you've owned testing and a bug pipeline, manual or automated
• Comfort using AI tools to automate work you used to do by hand
• Good judgment about process: you add structure when it helps and leave it out when it doesn't
• Strong written and verbal communication, and you work well with people
• Comfort with ambiguity and small-team dynamics. You've worked without heavy process and know how to keep things moving without it
• Passion for education and desire to make a positive impact

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails or Django codebases, the stacks we run
• Experience with Capybara, RSpec, or comparable testing tools
• Experience working with product managers and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience as the first project manager or QA hire on a team