QA Engineering Manager

Deepgram•San Francisco, CA

18h

About The Position

You’ll ensure Deepgram’s rapid releases don’t sacrifice quality, compliance, or customer trust. As QA Engineering Manager, you’ll be the quality owner across product lines, embedding testing discipline into engineering culture and scaling it with our growth.

Requirements

7+ years in QA or Software Engineering with 2–3+ years in a leadership/managerial role
Proven experience leading test strategy and execution in SaaS, APIs, or AI/ML platforms
Expertise in test automation frameworks, CI/CD integration, and cross-platform validation
Familiarity with compliance frameworks (HIPAA, SOC2, FedRAMP)
Strong communicator, capable of aligning quality priorities across engineering, product, and operations
Data-driven mindset: experienced in defining and acting on KPIs and operational metrics

Responsibilities

Own QA Strategy & Execution: Define and execute the cross-product test strategy (manual + automated) with daily/weekly validation cycles.
Build & Lead Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a QA team spanning engineers and specialists.
Cross-Engineering Alignment: Partner with product and engineering managers to embed testing into every release pipeline.
Test Infrastructure & Tooling: Drive strategy and adoption of frameworks, automation platforms, and CI/CD quality gates.
Governance & Compliance: Own QA oversight for HIPAA, PCI FedRAMP, and all applicable quality standards.
Quality Metrics & Reporting: Define KPIs, publish regular dashboards, and lead quality reviews with engineering and product leadership.
Release Candidate Qualification: Be the final gatekeeper for release signoff, balancing risk and velocity for our frontier AI services.
Customer Feedback Integration: Tie production monitoring and support feedback into QA strategy and iteration cycles.
Exploratory Testing: Foster edge-case discovery and testing creativity to prevent regressions and long term improvement for frontier research based products.