Engineering Manager Zephyr

SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks ensuring continuous measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation API lifecycle management and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams.

SmartBear is trusted by more than 16 million developers testers and software engineers across 32000 organizations including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe JetBlue and Microsoft. SmartBears best-loved brands include Swagger TestComplete Reflect QMetry Zephyr and more. As stewards of a collaborative open source community SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at or follow us on LinkedIn X and Reddit.

At SmartBear you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers driving go to market strategies supporting operations building products or enabling teams your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide. Join us in our mission.

At SmartBear we deliver the complete visibility developers need to make each release better than the last. Our award winning and industry favorite tools TestComplete Swagger Cucumber ReadyAPI Zephyr are trusted by over 16 million developers testers and software engineers at 32000 organizations including world-renowned innovators like Adobe JetBlue FedEx and Microsoft.

Engineering Manager Zephyr

• Lead and grow a cross-functional engineering team building innovative solutions in test management.
• Drive Agile best practices ensuring quality scalability and efficiency in software delivery.
• Foster collaboration and continuous improvement across distributed teams.

Product Intro:

Zephyr provides test management capabilities to Atlassian products working as a plugin/extension for Jira and Confluence for managing both manual and automated testing processes. Using AI users can transform their manual tests into automated tests and accelerate their delivery cycles.

TheAtlassian Marketplace is the main distribution channel of Zephyr. Having great success over the years Zephyr is one of the top-selling apps in the Atlassian Marketplace experiencing huge growth with more than hundreds of thousands of monthly active users.

From an engineering perspective we use native Cloud solutions on AWS deploying multiple times a day and using microservices. Our high-performance team of engineers use many of the modern good practices for software development such as (a lot of) test automation test-driven development (TDD) continuous delivery progressive rollouts and more.

Please visit our product page if you want to know more aboutZephyr.

You can even have a free trial to check it out!

About the role:

As an Engineering Manager you will promote a culture of collaboration and innovation leading to success. Your teams will span multiple locations.

• Lead coach and mentor engineers developing both existing and new initiatives across the Zephyr portfolio.
• Promote a culture of collaboration innovation and accountability within your team.
• Partner closely with PMs UX and peer engineering teams to deliver impactful business outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement throughout the full software development lifecycle.
• Apply Agile methodologies to ensure efficient delivery testing and deployment.
• Define and measure processes and metrics that ensure market readiness and customer value.

We are looking for you if you have:

• 10 years of experince with atleast 3 years of experience managing software development teams.
• Background in SaaS companies with distributed teams preferred.
• BS or MS in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent.
• Strong software development experience and ability to coach engineers.
• Knowledge of public and private cloud technologies.
• Ability to turn high-level goals into actionable plans with clear deliverables.

Why you should join the SmartBear crew:

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work collaborate and have fun.
• We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences viewpoints and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

Did you know:

• Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville MA with offices across the world including Galway (Ireland) Bath (UK) Wrocław (Poland) and Bangalore (India)
• Weve won major industry awards including B2B Innovators Award Content Marketing Association IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work.

SmartBear is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for employees where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on merit qualifications and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex national origin age gender disability veteran status sexual orientation or any other protected status under applicable laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that reflects a diversity of thought and experience as well as our values of being smart open driven accountable and curious.