Engineering Manager, QE

About AlphaSense: The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us! About the Team: 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. What You'll Do • 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 Who You Are • 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 What You'll Do • 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) What we Offer: • Playing a part in the story of fast growing company • Interesting Career opportunities and training • Relocation support for single employees, couples and families • While we do have an office in Helsinki, we’re a distributed company. We value outcomes over time, and offer flexible working arrangements. We usually meet at the office once a week. • 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.... 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. 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