Engineering Manager (m/f/d) QA
Checkmk
Full-time
Remote
Germany
Technology & Development
Your mission
As an Engineering Manager QA (m/f/d), you will be the driving force behind our quality engineering transformation. You own the QA strategy and vision, ensuring quality is embedded throughout the entire software development lifecycle rather than being an afterthought. Your mission is to elevate our quality practices to the next level by championing modern approaches like shift-left testing, continuous testing, and intelligent automation.
Your Tasks
Strategy & Vision
Modern Quality Practices
Leadership & Collaboration
Continuous Improvement
Your Tasks
Strategy & Vision
- Define and execute a comprehensive QA strategy that aligns with business objectives and product roadmaps
- Drive the cultural shift toward quality ownership across engineering teams, embedding quality as everyone's responsibility
- Establish quality metrics and KPIs that provide meaningful insights into product health and team effectiveness
Modern Quality Practices
- Champion shift-left testing practices, ensuring defects are caught as early as possible in the development cycle
- Build and evolve a sustainable test automation strategy that maximizes coverage while minimizing maintenance overhead
- Integrate quality gates seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, confident releases
Leadership & Collaboration
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and CI leadership to align quality initiatives with organizational goals
- Mentor and grow QA engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence
- Tightly connect with product experts and utilize their knowledge to align the QA strategy
- Collaborate with stakeholders to balance quality, speed, and risk appropriately
Continuous Improvement
- Identify bottlenecks in the development process and implement solutions that improve both quality and velocity
- Stay ahead of industry trends and evaluate emerging tools and methodologies for adoption
- Drive data-informed decisions about where to invest in quality efforts for maximum impact
- Foster knowledge sharing and transfer to build up extensive product and user understanding within the team
Your profile
- Several years of experience in quality engineering with a proven track record of building and scaling QA organizations
- Deep understanding of what drives long-term software quality: shift-left approaches, test pyramid principles, continuous testing, and sustainable automation strategies
- Strong technical foundation with hands-on experience in test automation frameworks and programming (Python preferred; Linux environment experience is a plus)
- Experience implementing quality practices in CI/CD environments and working closely with CI teams
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and modern engineering practices (TDD, BDD, trunk-based development, feature flags)
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization
- Strategic mindset paired with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach
- Business fluent in English; German language skills or willingness to learn are a plus
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
Why us?
- The chance to make a decisive impact and shape the future of a dynamic, fast growing tech company while growing with your tasks and responsibilities
- Flexible and family-friendly working conditions in a stable environment
- With the wide range of sports and wellness offers from Wellpass, you can choose from over 9,000 sports and wellness offers
- An agile team that embodies autonomy and fast decision making within flat hierarchies
- A unique corporate culture where we emphasize equality, diversity and inclusion
- A wide range of education and training opportunities
- Fully remote work or high flexibility between mobile work and an office in one of the most beautiful, central district of Munich
- An attractive salary
- Regular onsite events of all sorts (Company Outings, Team events, Checkmk Conference, Conference After Party and more) in a familiar atmosphere
You can get insights about working@checkmk at: www.kununu.com/de/checkmk
About us
We are the creators of Checkmk, a leading hybrid IT monitoring software for both cloud-native and traditional infrastructures and applications. Checkmk is available as an open-source and commercial edition. We are a strong team of software developers and DevOps, open-source enthusiasts and nerds who are passionate about helping small and large companies run their complex IT infrastructures reliably. Over the last years we have grown from 20 to over 250 employees to support our customer growth in Europe, the US and beyond. Our colleagues currently work from our Munich HQ as well as across Germany, Italy, Austria, France, Spain, Poland, USA, Singapore and Malaysia.
We are a dynamic, fast growing and easy-going company where positive collaboration is very important. We are more than just colleagues; we have a strong team and a great customer community. For us, high autonomy and flat hierarchies are not just words on paper, but everyday life. With us you don’t work as one of hundreds or on purely theoretical questions but have an immediate positive influence.
With our product, we make the lives of thousands of administrators easier and help them in coping with the increasing complexity of IT. Our customers love our product and your work helps to keep it that way!
We are a dynamic, fast growing and easy-going company where positive collaboration is very important. We are more than just colleagues; we have a strong team and a great customer community. For us, high autonomy and flat hierarchies are not just words on paper, but everyday life. With us you don’t work as one of hundreds or on purely theoretical questions but have an immediate positive influence.
With our product, we make the lives of thousands of administrators easier and help them in coping with the increasing complexity of IT. Our customers love our product and your work helps to keep it that way!