Engineering Manager - QA

Job Title: QA Engineering Manager Reporting To: Director of Engineering Remote Platform9: Private Clouds Made Easy Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise Private Clouds. Founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers, we are dedicated to transforming IT operations. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns your existing hardware into a full-featured, future-ready private cloud. We innovate across what we build and how we deliver it, staying focused on a next-generation, open private cloud while holding ourselves to one standard: exceptional customer outcomes. Enterprises are selecting Platform9 to replace legacy virtualization because it eliminates operational risk and complexity. Private Cloud Director is designed for the experienced infrastructure team, offering a familiar GUI experience for managing VMs and containers, seamless integration with your existing hardware and third-party storage, and critical enterprise features (HA/DR, scale, reliability) built-in. This enables IT teams to gain robust API control and a user experience they trust—rooted in customer obsession and an owner’s mindset. We share context quickly and candidly to keep decisions moving. With over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace, Platform9 is the proven path to achieving true vendor independence and operational consistency. We are an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, supported by a partner ecosystem of resellers, systems integrators, MSPs, and technology vendors committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency. Our values—innovation, customer obsession, ownership, radical candor, and excellence—guide how we build and support every deployment. Position Summary : We are looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineering manager with proven expertise in testing large scale, distributed cloud based systems in a continuous integration environment. In this role, the manager will drive and influence quality initiatives within product development teams Roles and Responsibilities: QA Strategy — Spearhead the development and continuous refinement of our QA strategy, including developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans, and procedures. Test Automation — Design, develop, and maintain automated tests to ensure features and functionalities meet quality standards and integrate them with CI/CD systems, minimizing reliance on manual testing. Test Infrastructure — Work on test infrastructure to design, implement and run functional, integration and scale tests. Manual Testing — Drive manual testing where automation is not feasible, ensuring all features and functionalities meet quality standards. Cross-Functional Collaboration — Work closely with product development team to design new tests for new features, analyze existing test coverage, identify gaps and have the team add missing tests. Defect Management — Track, analyze, and report on software defects, ensuring timely resolution and maintaining high product quality. Performance & Scalability — Implement performance, scalability, and stress testing to ensure the software can handle expected loads. Continuous Improvement — Identify opportunities to improve QA processes, tools, and methodologies, driving continuous improvement initiatives within the team. Risk Assessment — Assess risks associated with product releases and provide recommendations for mitigating those risks. Shift-Left Quality — Collaborate with platform architecture and development teams to embed quality principles early in the development lifecycle. AI-Assisted Testing — Contribute to implementation of AI-assisted testing and code quality analysis strategies. Team management – Guide, mentor, manage a team towards focussed software releases taking into account the aforementioned aspects. Chalk out a growth path for the team members and be responsible for their appraisals. Preferred Qualifications : Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related discipline. Extensive relevant work experience is also acceptable. 10+ years of experience in developing automated tests in a continuous integration environment for large scale systems. Atleast 2 years of engineering management experience comprising forming, growing and leading a team Key Skills: Proficiency in writing reliable and maintainable code in Python or Go Experience with continuous integration systems like Jenkins or Teamcity Strong experience with linux based systems Experience with cloud / containerization/ virtualization technologies, preferably Kubernetes and Openstack Skills that give you an edge : Being a highly motivated self-starter with the ability to work in a highly dynamic environment Troubleshooting skills To succeed in this role you’ll need to be a team player with a strong sense of ownership for your work and a passion for working in a data driven organization.