SDET Manager II

The role

Lead and grow the Quality Engineering team as an SDET Manager. Own the test automation strategy, quality processes and engineering excellence across products.

What you will do

• Own quality engineering outcomes across multiple teams and domains
• Lead, mentor and develop Lead/Senior SDETs and QA engineers
• Standardize automation practices, frameworks and quality benchmarks across squads
• Champion Shift-Left Testing and add quality gates to CI/CD pipelines
• Partner with engineering, product and architecture teams on quality strategy
• Give architectural guidance on test strategy, frameworks and tooling
• Build scalable automation frameworks using TypeScript/Playwright
• Own release quality and readiness with measurable quality gates
• Drive performance and reliability engineering practices
• Drive adoption of GenAI/AI-assisted quality engineering practices

Required qualifications

• 9–12 years of overall experience in Quality Engineering
• Proven experience managing and mentoring a large SDET team
• Strong hands-on background as a Test Automation Architect, ideally in TypeScript and Playwright
• Understanding of test automation design patterns, CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and development workflows
• Hands-on expertise with API testing, performance testing (JMeter, k6, Gatling) and mobile test automation (Appium or equivalent)
• Strong believer in Shift-Left Testing
• Demonstrated ability to set up scalable automation frameworks and increase automation coverage
• Experience building testing infrastructure and pipelines for microservices or cloud-native applications
• Track record of scaling teams and processes in fast-paced product organizations
• Passion for mentoring engineers and promoting continuous learning
• Enthusiasm for leveraging GenAI and AI agents to enhance testing productivity

Nice to have

• Exposure to streaming, content creation or community platforms

About the company

HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. It has over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries and supports more than 1 million businesses.