Engineering Manager, QE

Description

About AlphaSense:

AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com . Come join us.

QE partners with engineering teams to own test strategy, coverage, and quality-by-design. We're not a separate QA checkpoint — we enable engineering teams to ship fast with confidence.

About the Role:

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. Working manager role — technical credibility matters as much as people skills.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Technical Requirements:
• 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
• Experience with different test automation frameworks
• Strong test design skills on all levels
• Experience with Test Management Systems (e.g., Allure TestOps)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Kubernetes)
• Solid understanding of CI/CD and continuous delivery practices
• Fluency with AI tools, with a track record of using them to raise quality, speed up testing and delivery
• Bonus Points if you have:
• 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)
• AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.
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Requirements

• 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