Senior SDET Manager

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About the Role:: The Sr. SDET Manager is a pivotal role blending strong technical depth with strategic and people leadership. You will own the quality engineering strategy and operating model for Commerce & Payments, develop scalable quality practices, mentor SDET Managers and Leads, and drive AI-enabled approaches to improve how teams build, test, and ship software.

Why This Role Exists : The Commerce division is a new strategic division aimed at building a new pillar for our customers : the entire motion of selling their products, enabling subscriptions, configuring the right channels for distribution , sending quotes & proposals to prospective customers, accepting payments, signing contracts and more ! This allows our customers to choose a single Platform (HighLevel) to perform the entire lifecycle of business starting from generating leads, tracking and converting leads to customers, selling them core communications products, enabling campaign culminating in scaling their commercial offerings and managing it all in 1 place To make this a huge success it is important to understand what quality means in shipping a High quality Commerce Platform and Verticals to our Customers. This involves working with our stakeholders, internal customers and external customers judiciously and building the right quality collateral. The role of the Senior SDET Manager is to understand clearly what success means for the organization by working with Product divisions, drafting the Quality plans and tracking the health of E2E scenarios across the SDLC lifecycle , making visible the Quality dashboard to Product/Dev to enable their contributions. We are looking for a Sr SDET Manager( Commerce ) to collaborate, author , validate and attest all Commerce Releases to our internal and primarily external customers

Responsibilities : -> Quality Strategy & Architecture: Own the end-to-end quality engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap across multiple product lines in the Commerce & Payments Organization Establish quality gates, release readiness criteria, and CI/CD integration into Quality. Drive a "shift-left, shift-right" quality culture - embedding testability into design reviews and using production observability to close the loop Conduct architectural reviews across new and existing products to proactively surface sc