Quality Engineering Manager

About the role

We're hiring a Quality Engineering Manager to lead a team based in Brno. Your team runs a production fleet of AI testing agents - exploratory testing, bug verification, test case generation, PR review - and you own the quality outcomes. You set the standards, grow the careers, and decide where AI runs autonomously and where human oversight tightens. If you want to shape what QE looks like in 2026, this is the role. This role is hired through an Employer of Record (EOR) partner in the Czech Republic. 8am builds software that helps professionals run stronger businesses. Our platform powers payments, client experience, and operational workflows for legal, accounting, and other service-based businesses. U.S. based professionals count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters. More than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. rely on our products every day. As we continue to grow, we're investing in the next generation of our platform and are looking for experienced engineers who want to help shape its future.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of QEs embedded in Agile squads: hiring, coaching, performance management , and growing your ICs along our QE career ladder.
• Manage QE resource allocation across squads: rebalancing coverage as priorities shift, covering for leave or open headcount, and surfacing tradeoffs to Engineering and Product when demand exceeds capacity.
• Own the QE practice across the squads your QEs work in, enforce release readiness standards through our quality gates, and keep Qase traceability coherent.
• Review test plans authored by your team and raise the bar on coverage, clarity, and maintainability.
• Partner with peer QE managers, the Tooling and Automation team, Data Engineering, and Product to identify critical automation paths and build them into the quality gates, balancing the flows customers actually use with the flows we want customers adopting.
• Pull in our nonfunctional QE specialists (Data, Security, Performance) where their expertise sharpens coverage for the squads your QEs are in.
• Partner with Customer Support and Customer Success to bring customer signal into QE, positioning your team as customer advocates who catch failure modes before they become widespread.
• Own post-release quality: driving QE response and root cause analysis when escapes happen, and feeding those learnings back into gates, test coverage, and process.
• Enforce existing QE processes and drive continuous improvement. Contribute to Themis , our Python/PyTest/Playwright-based automation framework that implements our quality gates.
• About you:
• An active view of AI in QE . We're continuously evaluating and adopting AI to accelerate QE work. You bring rigor to how AI gets used, ensure your team reviews AI output before it ships , and help them get more value from the tools over time.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.
• This position is preferably based in Brno, Czech Republic
• Why join our new 8am Brno hub?
• Founding Team Impact: Be a founding engineer of our new Brno R&D hub. After a brief 1-6 month integration with U.S. based teams, you will help form fully autonomous, locally-led squads with clear paths to Staff and leadership roles
• Drive our "AI-First" Transformation: We are building a secure, massive-scale "Unified AI Platform". Depending on your squad, you will either help architect this core infrastructure (LLM routing, RAG, agent orchestration) or build directly on top of it.
• Build the Next Generation

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