Quality Engineering Manager (AI)

TL;DR

Quality Engineering Manager (AI): Setting the overall quality direction and leading a team of end-to-end integration and performance testers, owning tooling and test standards. With an accent on adopting AI-powered tools and practices to accelerate testing and improve defect detection. Focus on building high-performing teams, defining robust testing strategies across UI and API, and driving a culture of quality ownership across engineering squads.

Location: Hybrid in London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a global RegTech business defining and implementing the gold standard of regulatory intelligence for the financial services industry through intuitive AI-powered SaaS solutions.

What you will do

• Set the overall quality strategy and testing standards for the engineering group, ensuring consistency across UI and API testing.
• Lead and line-manage the end-to-end integration and performance test team, including hiring and development.
• Champion the adoption of AI-powered quality engineering practices for test generation, defect analysis, and performance testing.
• Lead the testing guild to drive consistency in testing approaches, share knowledge, and raise the quality bar.
• Mentor and coach testers across the group, fostering a culture of continuous learning and quality craftsmanship.
• Partner with Software Engineer Leads and Product Management to embed quality into delivery planning and technical decisions.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of quality engineering and delivery context.
• Experience leading and managing a QA or test team, including hiring and performance management.
• Expert knowledge of end-to-end integration testing across multi-service architectures.
• Strong experience with performance and load testing tools (e.g., k6, JMeter, Gatling).
• Deep knowledge of both UI testing (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium) and API testing (e.g., Postman, REST Assured).
• Experience defining and governing testing tooling and standards across multiple teams.
• Ability to set quality metrics, track trends, and use data to drive improvement.
• Exceptional communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading a community of practice or guild model.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills with a track record of developing testers.
• Experience driving adoption of AI-powered tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) to accelerate quality engineering practices.
• Work format: Hybrid in London, United Kingdom.

Nice to have

• Experience with testing in event-driven and microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with contract testing approaches (e.g., Pact).
• Experience with test environment management and test data strategies.
• Understanding of AKS/Kubernetes and containerised deployment models.
• Experience with C#/.NET and Angular technology stacks.

Culture & Benefits

• Globally recognized brand at the forefront of Regulatory Technology.
• Fast-paced, high-performing team with a "make it happen" culture, empowering career ownership.
• A global team of over 700 hirify.globalRs across 19 countries spanning EMEA, the Americas, and APAC.
• Committed to diversity, collaboration, and purpose.
• Opportunity to work alongside bright minds in AI research and engineering on cutting-edge technology.
• An equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment.