Senior Manager QA Engineering - Brazil

The role

You will lead quality engineering strategies to improve software reliability, performance, and scalability. You will manage a multidisciplinary team of QA engineers and analysts while evolving test automation and shared quality ownership models.

What you will do

• Execute quality engineering strategy across multiple squads
• Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of QA engineers and analysts
• Own and evolve test automation strategy, architecture, tooling, and standards
• Drive reduction in manual regression testing through automation and risk-based testing
• Lead the evolution toward shared quality ownership across Quality, Engineering, and Product
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators for quality and efficiency
• Identify testing risks, dependencies, and quality gaps
• Improve QA workflows, standards, and operating practices
• Manage team capacity, resource planning, and priorities
• Identify and operationalize AI-assisted approaches for testing

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in QA engineering, software quality, or a related field
• 5+ years of formal or informal people leadership experience
• Proven experience defining and scaling test automation strategies, frameworks, tooling, and standards
• Technical depth to evaluate automation architectures, frameworks, code quality, and CI/CD integrations
• Advanced expertise in automated testing tools and frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, JUnit, TestNG)
• Deep understanding of QA methodologies, software development lifecycles, defect management, and test planning
• Experience with quality management and development tools (Jira, TestRail)
• Ability to lead organizational change and influence Engineering and Product teams
• Proven experience leading QA teams across multiple disciplines, products, or engineering squads
• Proven experience driving team efficiency or output quality through the strategic use of AI tools and automation
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Nice to have

• strong leadership and coaching skills
• Ability to balance long-term planning, strategic thinking, and tactical execution
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong technical judgment
• Ability to create clarity, accountability, and momentum in undefined environments
• Ability to influence and drive alignment without direct authority
• A transformation mindset
• Ability to uphold HCP’s values and principles
• A multi-dimensional background

Benefits

• Paid holidays
• Flexible, take-it-as-you-need-it scheduled time off
• MacBook set up and ready from day one
• $500 stipend to design your ideal workspace
• Equity in a rapidly growing startup

Before you apply

• Submit an updated resume translated to English

About the company

Founded in 2013, Housecall Pro helps home service professionals streamline every aspect of their business. The company supports more than 50,000 businesses with a global team of over 2,000 teammates.