Senior Manager, QA Engineering

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; 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:

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product.

• 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.

What We Have to Offer:

Compensation

We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets (global tech hubs) reflecting local competition.

The Annual Total Target Cash (base salary + 100% variable target, where applicable) shown below spans from the minimum in a Standard market to the maximum in a Major market. Final offers depend on skills, experience, and location, and we typically hire in the first half of the range to allow room for growth:

• United States: $175,600.00 to $283,100.00

• United Kingdom: £110,200.00 to £181,300.00

• Singapore: S$218,100.00 to S$327,100.00

• Canada: C$186,400.00 to C$306,700.00

If you’re based elsewhere, you’ll be hired via Remote.com (our global employer partner), and your Talent Acquisition Partner will provide a personalized Total Rewards Calculator after your first interview.

Equity: We also offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).

Benefits & Perks

We invest in your wellbeing, growth, and ability to connect, along with perks that support you no matter where you’re based. Our benefits are globally designed and locally delivered where applicable.

• Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you, home office budget, co-working space support, and flexible time off to recharge when you need it.

• In Person Connection: We invest in meaningful face time through our Annual Kickoff (Vienna in 2025, Madrid in 2026!), team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets, including contributing to meetups while travelling, and local gatherings with fellow Camundi.

• Health & Wellbeing: Access locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing, and our Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), a flexible, global benefit that puts you in control of your whole life, not just work, from: staying active, to caring for family, exploring personal passions, meaningful experiences, and investing in your financial wellbeing. The Live Well program launches in 2026 and scales to €1,000 annually from 2027.

• Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions), plus life and disability insurance where relevant.

• Professional Growth: Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!