Engineering Manager – SDET

Prague - Czech Republic

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Engineering Manager - SDET to lead and mentor our Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) team. This role is crucial for scaling our engineering quality and ensuring a seamless high-performance product delivery pipeline. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who is passionate about quality culture test automation and driving continuous process improvement across the entire engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Culture

Evangelize a Quality-Focused Culture: Champion and drive a Quality is everyones responsibility mindset across all engineering teams influencing developers to adopt robust testing and quality practices early and throughout the development lifecycle.
Team Leadership and Mentorship: Lead manage and mentor a team of high-performing SDETs. Conduct regular one-on-ones performance reviews and facilitate career development and training plans.
Define Quality Strategy: Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to define the overall quality strategy objectives and key results (OKRs) for the organization.

Test Automation & Efficiency

Improve Testing Efficiency and Practices: Constantly evaluate and refine existing testing processes to maximize efficiency reduce time-to-market and minimize post-release defects.
Drive Automation: Oversee the design development and maintenance of scalable reliable and comprehensive automation frameworks for various application layers (UI API performance security).
Pipeline Excellence: Design and implement a robust and efficient testing pipeline that fully integrates automation into our Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) process. This includes integrating automated test runs reporting and quality gates.

Tooling and Innovation

Technology Scouting: Research evaluate and introduce new automated testing tools and technologies into the SDET teams toolbox to maintain a cutting-edge and efficient testing environment.
Technical Architecture: Guide the team in creating high-quality reusable and maintainable test code and infrastructure.
Reporting and Metrics: Establish and track key quality metrics (e.g. test coverage defect leakage automation ROI) and provide clear actionable insights to engineering leadership.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
Minimum of 2 years of experience managing/leading a Software Test QA or SDET team.
Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience as an SDET or Automation Engineer with strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g. Python Java C# JavaScript).
Deep practical knowledge of designing implementing and managing test automation frameworks (e.g. Selenium Cypress Playwright Jest Appium).
Proven experience working within CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions) and modern source control tools (e.g. Git).
Strong understanding of software development methodologies particularly Agile/Scrum.
Exceptional communication and presentation skills with a proven ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Additional Information :

Our Values

Collaboration is our superpower

We uncover rich perspectives across the world
Success happens together
We deliver across borders.

Innovation is in our blood

Were pioneers in our industry
Our curiosity is insatiable
We bring the best ideas to life.

We do what we say

Were accountable for our work and actions
Excellence comes as standard
Were open honest and kind always.

We are caring

We learn from each others experiences
Stop and listen; every opinion matters
We embrace diversity equity and inclusion.

More About Cint

Were proud to be recognised in Newsweeks 2025 Global Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces reflecting our commitment to a culture of trust respect and employee growth.

In June 2021 Cint acquired Berlin-based GapFish the worlds largest ISO certified online panel community in the DACH region and in January 2022 completed the acquisition of US-based Lucid a programmatic research technology platform that provides access to first-party survey data in over 110 countries.

Cint Group AB (publ) listed on Nasdaq Stockholm this growth has made Cint a strong global platform with teams across its many global offices including Stockholm London New York New Orleans Singapore Tokyo and Sydney. ()

Additionally in a world of AI we want our candidates to understand our approach to the use of AI during the interview and hiring process so wed appreciate you reading our AI usage guide.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time

OverviewWe are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Engineering Manager - SDET to lead and mentor our Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) team. This role is crucial for scaling our engineering quality and ensuring a seamless high-performance product delivery pipeline. The ideal ca...