QA Manager (Remote) in Los Angeles, California at Huckleberry Labs

As our QA Manager, you’ll lead a globally distributed team of 12 QA engineers spanning manual and automation, reporting directly to the CTO. You’ll own the QA function end to end — strategy, staffing, standards, and effectiveness — and you’ll own the call on release readiness as the final quality voice on what ships and when. This is a role for someone who builds quality in from the start.

• Team Leadership & Development

  • Lead and grow a globally distributed team of 12 QA engineers across manual and automated testing

  • Shape how we scale QA capacity — partner with our outsourcing partner to staff pods, set the quality bar for partner engineers, and build a blended team that operates as one

  • Build and execute a hiring strategy in line with team and company goals

  • Establish team performance processes, standards, and documentation

  • Team development and mentorship through regular one-on-ones, providing feedback, coaching, and performance management

• Release Ownership & Quality Risk

  • Own the go/no-go call on release readiness and be accountable for it

  • Identify and surface quality risks early in the release cycle so engineering leadership can make informed decisions on scope, prioritization, and timing

  • Negotiate release trade-offs with product and engineering stakeholders — when quality concerns arise, land an outcome that protects both the release date and the user experience

  • Drive down post-release defect and hotfix rates; monitor production quality, lead the response when issues land, and close the loop on root causes

• Quality Reporting and Strategic Guidance

  • Provide visibility to C-level on quality coverage, developing and executing plans to ensure efficient and effective test coverage

  • Work with leadership to establish quality KPIs and drive progress toward goals

• Process Improvement

  • Champion, implement, and drive shift-left quality practices with real world outcomes

  • Establish quality best practices across the QA team and communicate them to engineering partners

  • Continuously iterate on QA processes, tools, and automation opportunities to improve testing efficiency and effectiveness

  • Document testing standards, maintain test case libraries, and ensure clear communication of quality processes across teams

• 6+ years of total experience within QA

• 3+ years of QA management experience, including the management of globally distributed teams

• Excellent People Management skills with a demonstrated ability to develop team members, manage performance, and build a high-performing culture.

• Solution-oriented leader able to manage quality incidents with a level head, focusing on root causes and scalable solutions

• Strong communicator able to articulate quality status, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Mobile QA subject matter expert across manual and automated QA — regression testing, test coverage, and device/OS matrix strategy

• Demonstrated ownership of release readiness decisions, including a track record of reducing post-release defects or hotfix frequency

• AI-native QA practice — you use AI daily in your own workflow and have shipped production QA processes that depend on it, not pilots

• Experience designing and implementing new QA approaches in an organization (e.g. shift left)