Engineering Manager, QE

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland · Helsinki · 3+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 5, 2026

At a glance

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.
This is a working manager role where technical credibility matters as much as people skills.

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

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
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

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)

Interesting Career opportunities and training
Relocation support for single employees, couples and families
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

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