Posted at: 14 February

QA Engineering Manager

Company

CompanyPanoptyc

Panoptyc is a New York-based B2B startup specializing in AI and computer vision technology for retail loss prevention, providing automated security systems to retail operators and micro markets.

Remote Hiring Policy:

Panoptyc is a fully distributed company, hiring remotely from various locations, with team members working from different regions including the United States.

Job Type

Full-time

Allowed Applicant Locations

Worldwide

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Job Description

About Us

We help grocers, retailers, and micro market operators erase their shrink issues with the power of AI

QA Engineering Manager

About the Role

We're looking for a QA Manager who lives and breathes quality—someone who sees testing not as a gate but as a craft. You'll lead and manage the QA team, own our test automation strategy, and work closely with product, design and engineering to build quality into everything we ship.

What You'll Do

  • Manage, mentor, and grow the QA team—setting priorities, providing feedback, and supporting career development

  • Lead and evolve our test automation framework, with a focus on Playwright

  • Design and implement end-to-end, integration, and regression test suites

  • Champion a strong quality engineering mindset across the organization—shifting quality left and making it everyone's responsibility

  • Collaborate with product and engineering to define acceptance criteria and testability requirements

  • Identify gaps in test coverage and drive continuous improvement in our testing practices

  • Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and release planning

  • Own QA team capacity planning, and team performance

What You Bring

  • Experience managing or leading a QA team, with a track record of developing engineers

  • Strong software engineering skills—you write clean, maintainable test code

  • Deep hands-on experience with Playwright (or similar modern automation tools, but ideally Playwright)

  • A genuine quality engineering mindset: you think about edge cases, failure modes, and user impact instinctively

  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into deployment workflows

  • Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills

  • Clear communication—you can explain complex issues to technical and non-technical audiences alike and represent the QA function to leadership

Nice to Have

  • Experience with performance or load testing

  • Background in API testing and contract testing

  • Familiarity with accessibility testing

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