We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Quality & Automation team at Talabat. This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role, where you will spend a significant portion of your time designing, implementing, and unblocking the toughest quality challenges. Your mission is to establish world-class mobile quality practices at Talabat by embedding quality earlier in the delivery pipeline, coaching engineers and leaders, and ensuring reliable releases.
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Responsibilities
- Define and drive the quality strategy at Talabat, balancing automation, manual testing, observability, and governance.
- Act as the owner of quality, our frameworks, release processes, and observability dashboards.
- Build and continuously evolve systems that improve release stability, automation coverage, and critical-path test health.
- Work closely with engineering leaders and Staff+ engineers to align on a shared vision for quality across the organization.
- Partner with DevOps, DevX, and cross-functional peers to eliminate friction in testing and release pipelines.
- Introduce and scale a Quality Coaching Playbook across squads, embedding a shift-left mindset and clear ownership of quality.
- Serve as Talabat’s quality ambassador, influencing org-wide standards on testing strategy, release readiness, triage expectations, and quality metrics.
- Mentor and grow a team of QA Automation Engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and psychological safety.
- Define and track core KPIs such as flaky test rate, regression escape rate, release lead time, and App related metrics.
Qualifications
- 5+ years in QA / test automation / quality engineering, with a deep knowledge of end-to-end testing for mobile apps, including the backend.
- 2+ years of engineering management experience, ideally leading enablement or platform teams.
- Strong hands-on background with mobile, API, and contract test automation frameworks.
- Proven experience in release management for mobile apps.
- Track record of coaching engineers and scaling quality best practices across teams.
- Familiarity with observability, flaky test management, and CI/CD for mobile pipelines.
- Has driven shift-left quality initiatives or built testing platforms adopted org-wide.
