Senior Quality Engineering Manager

Traveloka

  • Shenzhen, Guangdong
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 16 days ago
About the RoleWe're looking for a Senior Quality Engineering (QE) Manager to lead high-impact initiatives across domains and geographies. This role is pivotal in shaping and operationalizing our next-generation quality engineering vision-one that is automation-first, insight-driven, and tightly integrated into our SDLC.You will work at the intersection of engineering, product, and operations, championing quality as a mindset and not just a milestone. From driving strategic automation programs to enhancing change safety nets and reducing production regressions, you'll play a key role in scaling quality across Traveloka.Key ResponsibilitiesQuality Strategy & Leadership
  • Help define and drive the long-term Quality Engineering (QE) roadmap in alignment with broader engineering and product strategies.
  • Lead strategic programs focused on defect containment, CI/CD integration, and automation scale-up.
  • Translate organizational goals into quality initiatives that improve velocity, coverage, and reliability.
Cross-functional Influence
  • Collaborate with product, platform, and SRE teams to integrate quality gates, pre-release validations, and production monitoring insights.
  • Advocate and implement shift-left practices-ensuring quality is embedded early and consistently across all stages of development.
Automation & Tooling Excellence
  • Scale E2E automation for multi-locale, multi-currency user journeys.
  • Institutionalize test architecture principles, reusable frameworks, and self-healing pipelines.
  • Drive adoption of modern test automation tools across the QE stack
Metrics & Process Optimization
  • Define quality KPIs (e.g., Change Failure Rate, Test Execution Time, Flaky Test Trend) and lead data-driven improvements.
  • Streamline test lifecycle processes and reduce friction in validation, rollout, and rollback operations.
  • Enhance test observability, traceability, and RCA automation for faster and smarter decision-making.
Team Growth & Development
  • Lead, mentor, and inspire a distributed team of QEs and SDETs at both IC and manager levels.
  • Cultivate a high-performance, growth-mindset culture with a strong bias for action and continuous improvement.
  • Build bench strength through training, coaching, and strategic hiring
Job Requirements
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • A strong academic foundation in software engineering principles and testing methodologies is preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience in software quality engineering, with at least 3+ years in leadership roles.
  • Proven track record of scaling test automation frameworks and practices in large-scale, distributed systems.
  • Deep understanding of SDLC, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Agile/Lean delivery models.
  • Experience in building automation strategies that address cross-platform challenges (web, mobile, API).
  • Strong people management skills with the ability to coach, mentor, and develop technical talent.
Bonus Points
  • Prior experience in high-growth tech/startup environments.
  • Exposure to multi-locale and regulated product environments.
  • Familiarity with release orchestration, feature flag management, and chaos/resilience testing.
  • Experience integrating with cloud-native platforms (e.g., AWS) and observability tools.

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