Senior QA Manager
Fictiv Exists to Enable Hardware Innovators to Build Better Products, Faster
Fictiv exists to help product innovators create.
Fictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across Fictiv’s four global manufacturing centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U.S.. Companies use Fictiv to access high-quality production, optimize supply chain logistics, and mitigate supply chain risk—ensuring they can move from prototype to full-scale manufacturing with speed and confidence. To date, Fictiv has delivered more than 35 million commercial and prototype parts for industries such as aerospace, robotics, automotive, climate tech, and more, helping them innovate faster, free up precious resources, and drive profitable growth.
What’s in it for you?
Opportunity To Unlock Your Creativity
Think of all the times you were held back from trying new ideas because you were boxed in by bureaucratic legacy processes or old school tactics. Having a growth mindset is deeply ingrained into our company culture since day 1 so Fictiv is an environment where you have the creative liberty and support of the team to try big bold ideas to achieve our sales and customer goals.
Opportunity To Grow Your Career
At Fictiv, you'll be surrounded by supportive teammates who will push you to be your best through their curiosity and passion.
Impact In This Role
As the Senior Engineering Manager, QA at Fictiv, you will play a key techno-managerial role — combining leadership, strategy, and hands-on technical expertise to shape our QA organization. You will lead a team of more than 15 quality engineers, drive an automation-first culture, and ensure seamless integration of quality in our AWS-based CI/CD pipelines. Your leadership will be central to improving reliability, performance, and security across our web applications, APIs, and enterprise integrations.
You will report to the Director of Engineering.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Build, scale, and lead a high-performing QA team focused on automation, CI/CD, and engineering excellence.
- Drive automation-first QA strategy — minimizing manual testing while maximizing automation coverage across web, APIs, and integrations.
- Own and evolve Cypress-based automation frameworks, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
- Integrate testing into AWS CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy) with automated quality gates.
- Oversee test management lifecycle using Zephyr Scale on Jira — from planning to execution and reporting.
- Ensure quality across a complex ecosystem:
- Web applications: Node.js, React, GraphQL, REST APIs, TypeScript, Python
- Enterprise platforms: Salesforce, NetSuite, MuleSoft, Odoo
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver secure, scalable, high-quality releases.
- Track, measure, and report quality KPIs (automation coverage, defect leakage, release readiness, cycle time).
- Mentor senior QA engineers, fostering technical depth and leadership growth in the team.
- Promote a quality engineering culture across the organization — embedding QA into the software development lifecycle, not as a checkpoint but as a partner.
Desired Traits
Must Have
- 15–20 years of QA experience, with at least 7+ years in leadership/managerial roles.
- Proven experience leading and scaling teams of 10+ engineers
- Proven success in leading QA for large-scale, customer-facing SaaS/web applications.
- Strong expertise in automation frameworks (Cypress required; Selenium, Playwright, or similar a plus).
- Hands-on experience in testing and automating APIs (REST, GraphQL).
- Experience integrating QA into AWS CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CloudWatch).
- Experience testing tightly-coupled, multi-system architectures with complex interdependencies.
- Proven expertise in B2B customer integration testing
- Strong technical foundation in web technologies, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.
- Track record of managing QA for enterprise platforms like Salesforce, NetSuite, MuleSoft, and Odoo.
- Provided oversight and collaboration in release management processes.
- Familiarity with test management tools (Zephyr Scale preferred).
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Nice to Have
- Release management experience in SaaS/enterprise environments.
- Familiarity with performance and security testing (JMeter, Gatling, OWASP).
- Knowledge of cloud-native testing practices and test data management.
- Prior exposure to the manufacturing industry or hardware-adjacent platforms.
- Previous supply chain industry experience
Perks and Benefits
- Mediclaim
- Paid time off
- Hybrid working
- And much, much more!
Interested in learning more? We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Fictiv is transforming how the next rockets, self-driving cars, and life-saving robots are designed, developed, and delivered to customers around the world. People who succeed at Fictiv are talented, creative, and driven to achieve professional excellence and support our vision to help product innovators create.
We’re actively seeking teammates who:
- Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company.
- Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.
- Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.
- Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins.
- Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates
We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.