Engineering Manager, QE

AlphaSense
Helsinki +1 more
Remote

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for quality engineering leaders who build tools and processes and have experience with AI-driven testing, who can balance technical and managerial responsibilities and work in a hybrid office environment in Helsinki.

Best fit for

  • Quality engineering leaders with a history of building tools and processes that other teams adopt and rely on
    — “A track record of building tools and processes that other teams adopt and rely on”
  • Individuals who have managed QE teams and have a technical background in test planning, strategy, and automation
    — “Experienced managing QA/QE or test automation engineers”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a hybrid work arrangement, with weekly in-office meetings in Helsinki
    — “We usually meet at the office once a week”
  • Candidates must have prior experience in both quality engineering and team leadership roles
    — “3+ years in a team management role”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in building test automation frameworks and evaluating AI outputs
    — “Experience evaluating non-deterministic or generative outputs (LLM/GenAI features)”
  • Emphasize your ability to create scalable processes that reduce dependency on oversight
    — “Set up team processes (release pipelines, test planning, escalations, etc) that hold up without you checking every step”
  • Showcase your leadership in driving quality metrics and test coverage improvements
    — “Drive metrics on test coverage, customer issues, quality debt”
  • Demonstrate your fluency in AI tools and how they improved testing or delivery outcomes
    — “Fluency with AI tools, with a track record of using them to raise quality, speed up testing and delivery”
  • Include examples of your work with cloud platforms and containerization like Kubernetes
    — “Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Kubernetes)”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Drive quality metrics
  • Improve test coverage
Typical background
Quality EngineeringTest Automation

Skills & requirements

Required

Quality EngineeringTest StrategyAutomation

Preferred

Team ManagementProcess Building

Stack & domain

Quality EngineeringTest PlanningAutomationQuality MetricsLeadershipTeam ManagementCommunicationSoftware EngineeringQuality Assurance

About the role

Original posting from AlphaSense via Greenhouse

About AlphaSense: 

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

About the Team:

QE partners with engineering teams to own test strategy, coverage, and quality-by-design. We're not a separate QA checkpoint — we enable engineering teams to ship fast with confidence.

About the Role:

You'll lead and manage a team of quality engineers: hiring, performance, and career growth, while staying hands-on enough to make calls on testing, test strategy, and quality debt. Working manager role — technical credibility matters as much as people skills.

What You'll Do

Hire, manage performance, and drive career growth for your team

Make quality-related technical calls: review MRs, test plans, improve test strategy, drive metrics on test coverage, customer issues, quality debt

Own execution and prioritization for your team's quality commitments

Build and/or maintain the dashboards and metrics that give visibility into quality health

Bring a proactive, clear quality narrative to your manager and partner teams

Partner closely with engineering managers, PMs, designers, and peer QE managers

Set up team processes (release pipelines, test planning, escalations, etc) that hold up without you checking every step

Own a portfolio-level view of quality

Who You Are

3+ years in a team management role

5+ years in quality engineering/quality assurance, Senior/Staff+ level prior to managerial role

Experienced managing QA/QE or test automation engineers

Technical depth in test planning, test strategy, automation, and quality metrics

A track record of building tools and processes that other teams adopt and rely on

A coach who gives specific, direct feedback

What You'll Do

Hire, manage performance, and drive career growth for your team

Make quality-related technical calls: review MRs, test plans, improve test strategy, drive metrics on test coverage, customer issues, quality debt

Own execution and prioritization for your team's quality commitments

Build and/or maintain the dashboards and metrics that give visibility into quality health

Bring a proactive, clear quality narrative to your manager and partner teams

Partner closely with engineering managers, PMs, designers, and peer QE managers

Set up team processes (release pipelines, test planning, escalations, etc) that hold up without you checking every step

Own a portfolio-level view of quality

Technical Requirements:

Experience evaluating non-deterministic or generative outputs (LLM/GenAI features)

Familiarity with eval frameworks, golden datasets, or scoring rubrics for measuring output quality 

Deep knowledge in at least one of: Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, or Java

Strong understanding of testing methodologies and QA domain theory

Experience with different test automation frameworks 

Strong test design skills on all levels

Experience with Test Management Systems (e.g., Allure TestOps)

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Kubernetes)

Solid understanding of CI/CD and continuous delivery practices

Fluency with AI tools, with a track record of using them to raise quality, speed up testing and delivery

Bonus Points if you have:

Exposure to search relevance or ranking quality

Experience setting up and configuring CI/CD tools and pipelines

Good understanding of GraphQL

Experience with Performance Engineering (k6 or similar) and Observability (OpenTelemetry/Grafana)

What we Offer:

Playing a part in the story of fast growing company

Interesting Career opportunities and training

Relocation support for single employees, couples and families

While we do have an office in Helsinki, we’re a distributed company. We value outcomes over time, and offer flexible working arrangements. We usually meet at the office once a week.

Private healthcare services from Terveystalo

2 weeks of vacation granted up front, and possibility to use vacation days as they accrue

Access to gym room, gaming room, free parking near the office, mobile phone, Lunch benefit, mobile plan, home internet, remote work equipment, and many more....

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

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Source: AlphaSense careers (Greenhouse)

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