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NextLabs, a Silicon Valley-based provider of policy-driven information risk management software, is seeking a Quality Engineering Manager to lead quality assurance efforts within its product organization. The role involves overseeing the development of next-generation data protection and entitlement management solutions for clients in Aerospace & Defense, Financial Services, and High-Tech industries. The ideal candidate is a motivated quality engineering leader with a passion for innovation. The position offers a salary of 10,000.

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Job description

[This job https://singapore.job-q.com/jobs/detail/quality-engineering-manager-33617 first appeared in Job-Q.com on 21 Sep 2026]

NextLabs® (www.nextlabs.com), a Silicon Valley technology company, is the leading provider of policy-driven information risk management(IRM) software for large enterprises, has an exciting opportunity for a Quality Engineering Manager to be part of the product organization in creating the next generation data protection and entitlement manager solutions. Our customers include many prominent enterprises in Aerospace & Defense, Financial Services, and High-Tech Manufacturing and Engineering industries.

We are looking for a highly motivated quality engineering leader who is passionate about driving quality in every dimension, from test automation and performance engineering to reliability and operational excellence across the full software delivery lifecycle. The ideal candidate possesses a strong can-do attitude and thrives as part of a world-class team with a shared passion for excellence. The successful candidate must be comfortable working in a loosely structured organization and capable of managing multiple assignments in parallel.

Responsibilities:

Quality Strategy & Leadership

• Define and drive the overall quality engineering strategy, ensuring products meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, and readiness to ship.
• Oversee test plans, test cases, test matrices, and bug reporting processes, performing regular coverage and gap analysis to prioritize testing efforts.
• Monitor, track, and report test status and defect statistics to relevant stakeholders.

Automation, Tooling & CI/CD

• Drive automation initiatives across functional, API, platform, and performance testing to continuously assess product quality and delivery readiness.
• Integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, championing a shift-left approach to defect prevention.
• Evaluate and maintain test automation frameworks and tooling to improve efficiency and coverage.

Infrastructure, Architecture & Deployments

• Set up and maintain test environments spanning on-premises and cloud-native platforms, including DR and HA validation.
• Apply capacity planning and sizing expertise to inform infrastructure and deployment decisions.
• Maintain a strong understanding of product and distributed system architecture to guide testing strategies.

Engineering& Customer Collaboration

• Work closely with Engineering to troubleshoot and triage defects, ensuring bugs, enhancements, and change requests follow the established lifecycle.
• Partner with Engineering and Technical Publication steams to ensure comprehensive test coverage and accurate documentation.
• Occasionally liaise with customers on product deployments and environment setup to ensure smooth and supported rollouts
• Incorporate security and compliance testing practicesaligned with NextLabs' Zero Trust and policy enforcement domain.

Cross-functional& Team Development

• Coordinate with cross-functional teams including NextLabs Asia and US offices to ensure compatibility and deliver cohesive, integrated solutions.
• Hire, mentor, and develop junior members of the quality engineering team.

Requirements:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
• Minimum of 10 years of professional quality engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a management or leadership capacity.
• Solid understanding of the product lifecycle within an agile software development environment.

Leadership & Management

• Proven track record of building, training, and mentoring high-performing QA and quality engineering teams.
• Demonstrates strong initiative, flexibility, and the ability to concurrently manage multiple deadline-driven tasks and projects.
• Ability to troubleshoot and analyze application issues to root cause, and coach team members to do the same.

Testing & Automation

• Exceptional skills in designing and implementing test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
• Strong experience building test automation frameworks across functional, API, and performance testing.
• Familiarity with commercial and open-source test automation and test case management tools such as Selenium, Quality Center,QTP, SilkTest, or Apache Cactus.
• Experience with performance and load testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner.
• Experience testing distributed enterprise applications deployed across on-premises and cloud-native environments.
• Experience integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipe lines is a plus.

Infrastructure, Monitoring &Architecture

• Basic proficiency in UNIX environments and shellscripting.
• Working knowledge of at least one relational databasesuch as Oracle, MS SQL, or PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
• Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm charts is a plus.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud,or Microsoft Azure is a plus.
• Familiarity with DR, HA, and capacity planning concepts as they relate to test environment management is a plus.

Soft Skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Self-motivated with the ability to rapidly acquire and apply new technologies.
• Collaborative team player with a proactive and ownership-driven mindset.

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