Engineering Manager - Quality

Booking.com — Netherlands · Posted ~2 hours ago

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Skills

Engineering management Test engineering Test automation Quality strategy Technical leadership Team coaching OKRs SLIs/SLOs KPIs Talent development Quality engineering

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Lead and develop a test engineering team while shaping its technical vision, strategy, and quality practices. You will establish objectives and engineering metrics, drive strategic improvements in testing, promote modern automation practices, identify capability gaps, and provide technical guidance. Strong leadership, coaching, and critical thinking are central to the role.

Highlights

Engineering management position focused on building a strong test engineering function, developing people, defining technical strategy, and improving quality through modern test automation. The role provides substantial leadership influence through team vision, strategic goals, and engineering metrics.

Description

The role of “Engineering Manager - Test” for the PayQuality Team in Payments Horizontal Services is to primarily manage, coach, and develop a test engineering team and strategies, ensuring the development of both are in line with organizational objectives and direction. They will be required to direct all aspects of the test engineering function within the direct reporting line and provide technical guidance and input to ensure modern testing automation practices are embedded into their teams’ ways of working. This role will also be responsible for ensuring that talent is identified and developed, any skills gaps are identified in good time to ensure the success of the organization’s objectives. What you’ll be doing:Vision & Critical Thinking Set the team’s vision, tech strategy, OKRs, SLIs/SLOs, and KPIs Deliver strategic goals to improve quality and testing in their teams Constructively improve existing ideas, plans, and solutions by reviewing them in a critical yet constructive manner, initiating concrete improvements, and articulating their rationale and guide members of the team in this topic. People Leadership Directly manage quality engineers, quality specialists, and developers Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating Nurture, inspire, motivate, grow and develop test engineering talent in the team Working closely with different roles across multiple teams: technical writers, SREs, developers, product managers, and team leads Working with developers in other teams to understand the business needs and identify the quality requirements Technology, Craft & Delivery Embed automation testing in the development process, where applicable Support the CI/CD efforts, proposes test automation tooling and infrastructure, and work with developers to build and maintain it; Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to enable effective and efficient delivery What you’ll bring:At least two years of a proven track record of developing automation strategies and driving successful technical initiatives that improved performance and quality Being able to experiment with different test frameworks and automation tools, (open-source preferred) and able to choose the right ones according to the different trade-offs; Hands-on experience with writing automated tests Experience with Java and JUnit is a must Experience with Swagger, Citrus, Front end tests is a plus Candidate must have recent exposure on optimising and improving testing productivity through AI Pre-Employment Screening If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.