Engineering Manager – Head of Quality Engineering

🔥 13 hours ago

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Storyteq

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

☁️ SaaS

📣 Marketing

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Marketing • Enterprise

Storyteq is a company specializing in creative automation platforms that help brands streamline their creative production, enabling them to activate on-brand campaigns swiftly across various markets and channels. They offer an extensive range of products and services, including automated video, banner, static, and print generation, as well as APIs and integrations for enhanced creative production efficiency. Storyteq provides solutions for content marketing and creative workflow management, helping enterprises deliver tailored and impactful campaigns globally. Their platform is recognized as a leader in content marketing, serving multi-brand enterprises and creative agencies with tools for optimizing marketing performance, ensuring brand consistency, and reducing tedious manual processes.

📋 Description

• Own and evolve Storyteq’s quality engineering strategy, defining what to test manually, what to automate, and where automation adds the most value. • Set the direction for test frameworks, tooling, CI/CD integration, quality standards, release readiness, and quality metrics. • Embed quality earlier in the development process by helping engineering teams build testing practices, tooling, and mindset into their day-to-day work. • Lead the Quality Engineering team to deliver strong technical and delivery outcomes while continuously improving workflows and ways of working. • Develop a deep understanding of product architecture and guide the evolution of test architecture alongside it. • Balance team capacity between supporting application teams and investing in scalable frameworks, platforms, and automation. • Build, coach, and retain a high-performing Quality Engineering team, supporting recruitment, onboarding, progression, feedback, and development. • Grow Quality Engineering as a respected engineering discipline and career path within Storyteq. • Act as the organisation-wide voice on quality and release risk, communicating what is known, where risks are, and what action is needed. • Contribute to the Engineering management team by sharing best practice, aligning cross-team initiatives, and helping shape how engineering operates at Storyteq.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years’ experience as a Lead and/or Engineering Manager, managing a team of 5+ engineers, including remote team members. • A strong technical background as a software engineer or quality engineer, ideally in a B2B SaaS environment. • Solid hands-on knowledge of test automation, including frameworks, patterns, and CI/CD integration. • Good understanding of exploratory and manual testing, with clear judgement on when each approach is most valuable. • Confidence influencing teams outside of your direct line management to improve how quality is built into their work. • A hands-on leadership style, with a willingness to support the team wherever needed. • A genuine care for the product, the customer experience, and the people building it. • A positive, collaborative approach and the ability to work well through challenge and change. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical topics clearly to different audiences. • Nice to have: Experience defining and delivering a quality strategy across multiple engineering teams. • Nice to have: Familiarity with modern cloud-native architectures such as microservices, Kubernetes, GCP, or AWS. • Nice to have: Experience with performance, accessibility, or security testing. • Nice to have: Exposure to testing AI-driven, media, or creative-generation products where outputs may not always be deterministic.