Senior Manager, Test Engineering

Storable is a company that builds SaaS products for the self-storage industry. They are seeking a Senior Manager of Test Engineering to lead their quality transformation by building and operating testing platforms, increasing automation, and improving reliability for their multi-tenant SaaS products.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the shift-left testing strategy across engineering, in partnership with product, platform, SRE, and security
• Build and lead a high-performing test platform/enablement team (engineering managers, senior ICs, SDETs)
• Translate business and reliability goals into a clear roadmap for quality platforms, tooling, and practices
• Establish and track quality and reliability KPIs (e.g., defect escape rate, flaky test rate, MTTR, change fail rate, performance SLOs)
• Design and evolve enterprise-scale testing platforms supporting:
• • API and service-level testing
• • Contract and integration testing
• • UI/E2E automation where it adds leverage
• • Performance, load, and resilience testing
• Partner with SRE/DevOps to integrate testing deeply into CI/CD pipelines, including:
• • Gating and quality thresholds
• • Test orchestration and parallelization
• • Environment and test-data management
• Provide opinionated, self-service tooling and templates for teams using Python, Java, and Go in a microservices / multi-tenant SaaS environment
• Work closely with SRE and product engineering to design for reliability and resilience, not just test for it
• Establish practices and tooling for:
• • Performance and capacity testing at service and system levels
• • Fault injection / chaos experiments for critical paths
• • Regression detection tied to SLOs and error budgets
• Ensure test platforms integrate with observability (logs, metrics, traces) for faster triage and better signal-to-noise
• Lead change management for new testing practices, frameworks, and workflows across many teams
• Build and run enablement programs: standards, playbooks, training, office hours, and guilds/communities of practice
• Coach engineering managers and tech leads on testability, design for quality, and pragmatic automation strategies
• Identify and remove systemic blockers to shift-left (environments, data, tooling, ownership, incentives)
• Hire, grow, and mentor engineering managers and senior ICs in test, platform, or SRE disciplines
• Build a culture of continuous improvement, data-driven decisions, and blameless post-mortems
• Own operational health of test platforms (availability, performance, cost) and partner with platform/SRE teams on capacity and reliability

Requirements:

• 10+ years in software engineering / quality engineering, including 4+ years leading engineering teams (people management)
• Proven experience leading test/platform, SDET, SRE, or DevOps teams in a multi‑service SaaS environment
• Demonstrated success driving shift‑left testing transformations or similar engineering practice changes at scale
• Strong technical background in at least one of Python, Java, or Go, with working knowledge of the others
• Hands‑on experience with: Test automation frameworks (API/service, contract, and UI/E2E), Performance and load testing tools and methodologies, CI/CD systems and integrating tests into pipelines
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and multi‑tenant architectures and their implications for testing and reliability
• Experience partnering tightly with SRE/DevOps on deployment, observability, and incident response
• Track record of leading through change in environments that are still maturing engineering practices (not just 'maintaining' at a big‑tech level)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, and business leaders
• Prior experience in high‑growth SaaS companies in the ~500–1,500 employee range
• Experience designing or operating centralized test platforms serving dozens of product teams
• Familiarity with observability and reliability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Chaos tooling)
• Experience working with global, distributed teams and across multiple product lines
• Background in reliability/resilience engineering (SLOs, error budgets, game days) applied to test strategy