Engineering Manager

Location: Bengaluru

Who We Are
Testsigma is building the world's first Quality Intelligence Platform — the infrastructure layer that sits between every code change and every confident release. We're at an inflection point: the product is proven, the market is real, and now we're scaling the team and the platform that will define this category.
We move fast. We hold a high bar. We don't separate “building” from “owning.” Every person on this team — engineering, product, GTM — is accountable for outcomes, not activities.
This Engineering Manager role is one of the most consequential hires we'll make this year. You'll lead the team building the most technically complex parts of our platform, work directly with the founding team, and be the connective tissue between engineering, product, and the customers who depend on what we ship.
What This Role Is
You lead the engineering team responsible for Testsigma's agent platform, knowledge graph infrastructure, and core product experience. Your team includes AI architects, AI/agent systems engineers, backend platform engineers, and frontend engineers.
You are not a coordinator. You are a technical leader who manages, and a manager who stays close enough to the technology to make good decisions about it.
You own two things above everything else: quality of what ships and when it ships — not as competing priorities, but as a single standard. You hold both simultaneously and you build a team that does the same.
What You'll Own
1. Engineering Execution and Delivery
You own the team's delivery commitments. Roadmap items have dates, and those dates mean something. You work with the GPM team to scope accurately, surface risks early, and protect the team from scope creep without losing customer responsiveness.
You run a tight engineering cadence. Sprints have clear goals. Retros produce actual changes. Standups surface blockers, not just status.
2. Product Quality
You are accountable for the quality of everything that ships under your team's ownership:
Define and enforce engineering quality standards — code review practices, test coverage expectations, definition of done
Own the bug triage process and personally track the health of the backlog
Hold the bar on what "ready to ship" means — and push back when it isn't
Treat production incidents as architectural signals, not operational noise
Quality is not QA's job. It's yours.
3. Platform Stability and Reliability
You own the reliability posture of the platform — uptime, latency, error rates, incident response, and the engineering practices that prevent incidents from recurring. You define SLOs, review them monthly, and lead incident responses from the front — not the sidelines.
4. Team Leadership and Growth
You build the team — hiring, onboarding, mentoring, performance management. You have a high bar for who joins and you hold it even when there's hiring pressure. You develop the engineers on your team — not just as engineers, but as owners.
Your team spans significant range: AI architects, AI/agent engineers, backend engineers, and frontend engineers. You don't need to be the deepest expert in each — but you need to be credible enough to evaluate work, give useful feedback, and make good technical trade-off decisions.
5. PM Partnership
You work closely with Product Managers on roadmap prioritization, sprint planning, and quarterly goal-setting. You push back on scope that isn't achievable, surface engineering dependencies, and jointly own the outcome. When requirements are ambiguous, you close the gap — you don't let it become a delivery risk.
6. GTM and Customer Involvement
This is not a back-office engineering role. You work directly with GTM — sales, customer success, solutions engineering — and with customers themselves:
Join strategic customer conversations where platform architecture or reliability is on the table
Lead the response to critical customer escalations — understand the problem technically, communicate clearly, and follow through
Review customer feedback loops and ensure they directly influence engineering priorities
Participate in pre-sales discussions where technical depth matters
Own the reliability commitments that go into customer…