Senior Engineering Manager — QA & Standards

About Us

insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions that unlock the potential of business data and transform the way finance and data teams operate. We empower leaders from over 32,000 organizations to make timely and intelligent decisions. Our comprehensive solutions span Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Controllership, and Data and Analytics. We deliver finance teams the insights required to navigate any economic climate and drive greater financial intelligence, while increasing productivity, visibility, accuracy, and compliance.

As Senior Engineering Manager for QA & Standards, you will own the quality engineering organization for the entire Certent Equity Management (CEM) platform — insightsoftware's enterprise SaaS product serving 1,200+ global clients. Reporting to the Sr Engineering Manager over Application Engineering and QA, you are accountable for all QA across every delivery vertical — through a combination of direct reports and Principal-level QA Leads matrixed into scrum teams.

This is a transformational leadership role.

• QA Ownership & Accountability

  Own quality outcomes across all CEM delivery verticals — through direct reports and Principal QA Leads matrixed into scrum teams. Establish and enforce test plan and test case standards organization-wide; hold teams accountable to consistent, rigorous quality practices regardless of vertical or geography.

  Define and own release quality gates — partnering with Engineering Managers and Release Management on go/no‑go criteria, defect triage, and customer‑impacting issue escalation.

  Communicate quality status clearly and fluently — accountable up to the Sr Engineering Manager and Sr Director, and across to Application, Platform, and Reporting/BI vertical leaders — with accurate, actionable narratives.

  Identify systemic quality risks, coverage gaps, and process breakdowns early; drive resolution through direct ownership or escalation.

• AI Strategy & Adoption — QA

  For automation engineers: champion ≥50% AI‑authored PR targets and ≥95% AI code review adoption as organizational minimums.

  For manual QA: drive adoption of AI tooling to generate test plans, test cases, edge cases, positive/negative scenarios, end‑to‑end scenarios, and test data sets — meaningfully reducing manual effort while expanding coverage.

  Serve as the organization's advocate for AI‑augmented quality practices; establish AI‑first QA as a standard expectation, not an optional enhancement.

  Stay current on emerging AI tooling relevant to QA — test generation, intelligent triage, anomaly detection — and bring forward‑looking recommendations to the Sr Engineering Manager and Sr Director.

• Team Leadership & People Management

  Day‑to‑day management of the QA & Standards organization:
  Principal QA Leads, QA Engineers, and Equity Specialist QA across all verticals.

  Partner with the Automation Lead to assess the current automation platform, align on a forward path, and sequence automation improvements alongside the broader CEM modernization roadmap.

  Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and retention across your teams; partner with the Sr Director on headcount planning.

  Run effective team cadences — creating the operational rhythm that drives accountability and continuous improvement across a large, distributed QA workforce.

  Foster a high‑trust, high‑accountability culture that attracts strong QA talent and reflects insightsoftware's core values.

• QA Transformation & Standards

  Lead the QA organization through meaningful transformation — elevating test discipline, closing coverage gaps, and building the processes and standards that a growing enterprise SaaS platform requires.

  Establish automation‑first principles across the QA org; partner with the Automation Lead to stabilize the current automation environment, reduce false‑failure noise, and improve triage efficiency.

  Define the long‑term automation strategy in partnership with the Automation Lead and Scalable Architecture Team — bridging current‑state realities with a future‑state automation platform as CEM modernizes.

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