Engineering Manager – SDET

Who We Are

Cint is a global software leader in technology-enabled digital insights and research technology. The Cint platform automates the insights-gathering process so that companies can gain access to insights faster with unparalleled scale. Cint has one of the world's largest consumer networks for digital survey-based research, made up of over 239 million engaged respondents across more than 130 countries. Over 4,600 insights-driven companies use Cint to accelerate how they gather consumer insights and supercharge business growth.

Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Engineering Manager - SDET to lead and mentor our Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) team. This role is crucial for scaling our engineering quality and ensuring a seamless, high-performance product delivery pipeline. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who is passionate about quality culture, test automation, and driving continuous process improvement across the entire engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Culture

• Evangelize a Quality-Focused Culture: Champion and drive a "Quality is everyone's responsibility" mindset across all engineering teams, influencing developers to adopt robust testing and quality practices early and throughout the development lifecycle.

• Team Leadership and Mentorship: Lead, manage, and mentor a team of high-performing SDETs. Conduct regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, and facilitate career development and training plans.

• Define Quality Strategy: Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to define the overall quality strategy, objectives, and key results (OKRs) for the organization.

Test Automation & Efficiency

• Improve Testing Efficiency and Practices: Constantly evaluate and refine existing testing processes to maximize efficiency, reduce time-to-market, and minimize post-release defects.

• Drive Automation: Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, reliable, and comprehensive automation frameworks for various application layers (UI, API, performance, security).

• Pipeline Excellence: Design and implement a robust and efficient testing pipeline that fully integrates automation into our Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) process. This includes integrating automated test runs, reporting, and quality gates.

Tooling and Innovation

• Technology Scouting: Research, evaluate, and introduce new automated testing tools and technologies into the SDET team's toolbox to maintain a cutting-edge and efficient testing environment.

• Technical Architecture: Guide the team in creating high-quality, reusable, and maintainable test code and infrastructure.

• Reporting and Metrics: Establish and track key quality metrics (e.g., test coverage, defect leakage, automation ROI) and provide clear, actionable insights to engineering leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum of 2+ years of experience managing/leading a Software Test, QA, or SDET team.

• Minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience as an SDET or Automation Engineer with strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, Java, C#, JavaScript).

• Deep practical knowledge of designing, implementing, and managing test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Jest, Appium).

• Proven experience working within CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and modern source control tools (e.g., Git).

• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, particularly Agile/Scrum.

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Our Values

Collaboration is our superpower

• We uncover rich perspectives across the world
• Success happens together
• We deliver across borders.

Innovation is in our blood

• We're pioneers in our industry
• Our curiosity is insatiable
• We bring the best ideas to life.

We do what we say

• We're accountable for our work and actions
• Excellence comes as standard
• We're open, honest and kind, always.

We are caring

• We learn from each other's experiences
• Stop and listen; every opinion matters
• We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.

More About Cint

We're proud to be recognised in Newsweek's 2025 Global Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces, reflecting our commitment to a culture of trust, respect, and employee growth.

In June 2021, Cint acquired Berlin-based GapFish – the world's largest ISO certified online panel community in the DACH region – and in January 2022, completed the acquisition of US-based Lucid – a programmatic research technology platform that provides access to first-party survey data in over 110 countries.

Cint Group AB (publ), listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, this growth has made Cint a strong global platform with teams across its many global offices, including Stockholm, London, New York, New Orleans, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. )

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