Senior Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering & Enablement

Overview

At Lupa, we're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering & Enablement to build and lead a brand-new team of Quality Engineers based in Mexico. This is a rare opportunity to establish a Quality Engineering function from the ground up inside a profitable, fast-growing technology organization — one that pairs the stability of an established, acquisitive company with the energy and autonomy of a startup.

This is a people leadership role with a strong technical foundation. You'll shape hiring strategy, set technical direction, drive delivery, and champion modern, automation-first quality practices across a growing engineering organization. If you're passionate about automation, developer enablement, AI-assisted testing, and shift-left quality — and you love building teams and culture from scratch — this role was made for you.

You'll work at the intersection of engineering leadership, automation, AI, and developer enablement, partnering directly with development teams to make quality a shared responsibility rather than a final checkpoint.

What You'll Do

People Leadership & Team Building

• Hire, onboard, coach, and develop a team of approximately 6–8 Quality Engineers based in Mexico.

• Run regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support both technical and leadership growth across the team.

• Set clear expectations, manage performance, and cultivate a high-ownership, collaborative team culture.

Delivery & Execution

• Own sprint planning, prioritization, and delivery commitments for the Quality Engineering roadmap.

• Balance technical improvements, automation coverage, quality risks, and business priorities.

• Identify blockers and dependencies, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and ensure consistent, meaningful delivery.

• Use delivery and quality metrics to continuously improve team effectiveness.

Technical Leadership

• Partner with senior QEs to guide automation framework architecture, tooling, and quality practices.

• Stay close enough to the technology to review designs, challenge technical decisions, and unblock complex problems.

• Establish scalable approaches to automated testing across API, integration, and end-to-end workflows.

• Champion AI-assisted development and testing practices, including AI-driven test automation where appropriate.

• Help the team build reusable frameworks, tooling, and patterns rather than one-off test cases.

Developer Enablement & Shift-Left Quality

• Work closely with engineering teams to make quality a shared responsibility across the development lifecycle.

• Help teams identify and address quality risks earlier, and encourage developers to own automated coverage.

• Drive adoption of meaningful quality signals such as production smoke tests, contract testing, API testing, and end-to-end coverage.

Process, Standards & Stakeholder Partnership

• Evolve Quality Engineering processes as the organization grows.

• Establish effective approaches to test management, CI/CD integration, quality gates, and reporting.

• Partner with engineering managers, product leaders, and technical stakeholders to align quality initiatives with broader goals.

• Communicate team health, delivery progress, technical risks, and quality trends to senior leadership.

Who You Are

Must-Haves

• 8+ years of engineering management experience leading software engineering, Quality Engineering, or closely related technical teams.

• A strong hands-on software engineering background before moving into management — enough depth to engage meaningfully with engineers and technical decisions.

• Demonstrated experience championing automation, testing strategy, developer enablement, or quality engineering practices.

• Proven experience hiring, onboarding, developing, and scaling engineering teams.

• Comfort discussing modern automation technologies (e.g., Playwright or similar), CI/CD, API testing, and integration testing.

• Fluency with modern AI-assisted development and testing workflows.

• Experience with Agile delivery, sprint planning, backlog management, prioritization, and technical tradeoffs.

• Strong written and verbal English communication skills across engineers, managers, product stakeholders, and senior leadership.

• A high-agency, ownership-driven mindset — someone who takes a problem, builds the solution end to end, and can point to the results.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or other regulated industries.

• Experience with enterprise integrations or complex distributed systems.

• Experience building or scaling a Quality Engineering function from an early stage.

• Experience leading distributed or geographically diverse teams.

• Experience introducing AI-assisted engineering or testing practices into an organization.

What's In It For You

• Full-time employment through a local Mexican entity, with the associated statutory benefits Mexico is known for.

• Work setup: Mexico, remote

• Schedule & timezone: Standard full-time schedule in Mexico

• Growth & impact: Build a team from the ground up and shape its culture, hiring strategy, and technical direction, with meaningful influence over how Quality Engineering evolves across a growing tech organization.

• The best of both worlds: The stability of a profitable, expanding company combined with the autonomy and creativity of a startup environment — you get to build and ship without worrying about runway.

Application

Ready to build a Quality Engineering function from scratch and leave your mark on a fast-growing technology organization? Apply now through Lupa. Our team moves quickly — we review applications on a rolling basis and will reach out promptly to strong candidates to walk you through the process and next steps.