Software Quality Assurance Manager
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote, US
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Qa
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, software testing, or test automation, including 2+ years in a leadership or management role.
- Deep hands-on experience designing, implementing, maintaining, and scaling test automation frameworks, including framework architecture, reusable components, coding standards, governance practices, an
- Proficiency in Java, Python, JavaScript, or a similar programming language, with the ability to guide automation of code quality, maintainability, and reusable framework design.
- Experience integrating automated tests, quality gates, framework health checks, and reporting into CI/CD pipelines.
- Demonstrated ability to modernize legacy Quality Engineering tools, consolidate fragmented testing approaches, and guide teams toward a future-state automation framework.
- Demonstrated experience advancing shift-left quality practices through early collaboration on requirements, acceptance criteria, solution design, testability, and delivery risk.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery, the software testing lifecycle, and how Quality Engineering practices support product delivery and release readiness.
- Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical direction, explain framework and quality tradeoffs, and align Product Management, Business Analysis, En
- Experience evaluating or implementing AI-assisted software engineering or Quality Engineering capabilities, including test generation, test maintenance, coverage analysis, release readiness, or agenti
Full description
Overview
World Travel Holdings is seeking an experienced Quality Engineering & Test Automation Manager to lead a blended Quality Engineering team and build an AI-enabled, automation-first quality capability for World Travel Holdings (WTH). In this role, you will modernize testing tools and processes, design scalable automation and agentic quality workflows, mentor engineers across manual, exploratory, and automated testing disciplines, and partner closely with Product Management, Business Analysis, Engineering, Architecture, and DevOps teams to improve requirement quality, developer feedback cycles, release readiness, platform resiliency, and business outcomes across the software development lifecycle.
About the Company
World Travel Holdings, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL, is the nation’s largest cruise agency and an award‑winning leisure travel company with nearly 40 travel brands. Through owned brands and private‑label partnerships, we sell cruises, villas, resort day passes, and luxury travel services. With a top-rated franchise, a UK cruise division, and a strong commitment to employee engagement and remote work, World Travel Holdings offers a people-focused culture. Learn more: WorldTravelHoldings.com
Responsibilities
Team Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a blended Quality Engineering team spanning manual, exploratory, regression, API, performance, accessibility, and automated testing.
- Manage Quality Engineering team capacity, priorities, and delivery across active initiatives while simplifying, standardizing, and modernizing team processes.
- Establish an onboarding process that helps Quality Engineering team members ramp quickly and consistently.
- Build strong working partnerships across Product Management, Business Analysis, Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, and Quality Engineering to establish shared ownership of quality throughout planning, design, development, delivery, and operation.
Automation Framework Strategy
- Own the design, implementation, and ongoing evolution of a modern, scalable automation framework supporting web, mobile, accessibility, API, integration, performance, and regression testing.
- Define the automation framework architecture, technical standards, tool selection criteria, coding patterns, and governance practices needed to create a consistent enterprise Quality Engineering approach.
- Assess existing Quality Engineering tools, test suites, environments, and processes to identify modernization, consolidation, and automation opportunities.
- Build a roadmap for migrating current testing practices into the future-state automation framework, balancing near-term delivery needs with long-term scalability and maintainability.