QA Manager

Cast & Crew•California-Remote, CA

1d•$120,000 - $150,000

About The Position

At Cast & Crew, we power the global entertainment industry through technology, payroll, accounting, production workflows, and creative tools that support some of the world’s most recognized productions. Together with our family of brands including Backstage, Final Draft, Media Services, Checks & Balances, CAPS, Sargent-Disc, and The TEAM Companies, we provide mission-critical solutions across payroll, finance, onboarding, production accounting, creative workflows, and data services. As our platform ecosystem continues to evolve, quality engineering is becoming a strategic differentiator. We are investing heavily in automation, developer enablement, AI-assisted quality engineering, CI/CD modernization, observability, and shift-left engineering practices to help teams move faster with confidence. This is an opportunity to help shape the future of Quality Engineering at Cast & Crew. You will help drive a shift-left engineering culture, modernize testing practices, improve developer productivity, and build scalable quality solutions that support products used across the entertainment industry worldwide.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, or Test Automation
4+ years of QA leadership or management experience
Strong hands-on automation engineering experience
Experience building and scaling automation frameworks
Expertise with tools such as: Playwright
Experience testing APIs, integrations, and distributed systems
Strong coding or scripting skills in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, or similar languages
Experience integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines
Strong understanding of shift-left testing practices and modern SDLC workflows
Experience working closely with Engineering and Product teams in Agile environments
Hands-on experience leveraging modern AI engineering tools and workflows, including ClaudeCode, AI skills frameworks, agents, and collaborative AI coworker models to improve developer productivity, automation generation, test strategy, and quality engineering workflows
Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence across teams

Nice To Haves

Experience with mobile web testing and BrowserStack
Experience with Maestro or Detox for mobile automation
Experience with Cypress
Experience with Appium
Experience with Postman/Newman
Experience with contract testing and service virtualization
Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog
Experience with visual regression testing
Experience in payroll, fintech, ERP, or regulated environments
Experience testing OCR or document processing workflows

Responsibilities

Design and evolve automation frameworks for: Web applications, APIs (REST and GraphQL), Integration and event-driven workflows, Mobile web platforms
Build and improve automated regression, smoke, integration, and end-to-end testing capabilities
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or Buildkite
Implement quality gates, reporting, and release validation processes
Partner with Platform and DevOps teams to improve test environments, observability, and developer workflows
Help modernize legacy automation frameworks and improve test reliability
Drive AI innovation within Quality Engineering by identifying opportunities to leverage AI-assisted tooling, automation generation, intelligent test optimization, failure analysis, and developer productivity workflows
Partner with Engineering leadership to evaluate and implement modern AI-enabled testing solutions that improve release confidence, testing efficiency, and engineering velocity
Champion shift-left engineering practices through automation, reusable testing patterns, self-service tooling, and AI-assisted developer enablement
Explore and introduce emerging quality engineering technologies, frameworks, and automation strategies that help scale testing capabilities across the organization
Partner with Engineering and Product leaders to embed quality earlier in the development lifecycle
Help developers adopt unit, API, integration, and automation testing best practices
Drive developer-owned quality and self-service testing capabilities
Establish scalable testing standards, reusable tooling, and automation patterns
Improve release confidence through better automation coverage and CI/CD enforcement
Leverage AI-assisted tooling and automation to improve testing efficiency and engineering velocity
Lead and mentor QA engineers while remaining hands-on technically
Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, DevOps, Release Engineering, and Security teams
Provide technical guidance on testing strategy, automation architecture, and quality best practices
Proven ability to lead and mentor both onshore and offshore QA engineering teams within a matrixed organization, driving alignment across Engineering, Product, Platform, and Release teams while fostering strong collaboration, accountability, and delivery excellence
Drive alignment around quality goals, release readiness, and engineering standards
Track and communicate quality metrics, risks, and improvement opportunities