Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

As Senior Manager, Quality Engineering at Sardine, you own quality across the platform and customer-facing delivery for a leading agentic risk platform fighting financial crime. You lead a globally distributed QA team across web, mobile, and manual testing, setting the standards, strategy, and governance that make quality credible to banks. You partner closely with Engineering, Professional Services, and customers to ensure every product change and bank integration is correct, well-documented, and formally accepted.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end QA strategy across the platform and customer-facing delivery, spanning a globally distributed team of QA engineers
• Establish and maintain quality governance appropriate for regulated financial institutions: test strategy standards, coverage metrics, release criteria, and audit-ready evidence
• Own incident response for quality-related issues, including triage, root cause analysis, prevention, and post-incident communication
• Partner with engineers to strengthen test automation, CI/release gating, and regression coverage for a real-time, high-throughput platform
• Partner with Professional Services and Post-Sales teams to support UAT, structured acceptance testing, and integration validation for bank and enterprise deployments
• Shape engineering culture across the organization to ensure high quality standards are upheld

What you bring

• 8+ years in software quality, with 2+ years managing QA or Quality Engineering teams
• Experience owning quality for a regulated domain such as banking, payments, or fintech, including familiarity with audit, UAT, and documented test governance
• A strong quality engineering mindset: test automation, CI/CD gating, and coverage measurement, balanced with structured manual and exploratory testing
• Hands-on experience building test automation using Cypress or similar tools
• A track record building high-performing, distributed teams across multiple time zones and cultures
• A metrics-driven approach: comfortable defining and reporting on quality KPIs

What we offer

• Generous compensation in cash and equity, with early exercise for all options including pre-vested
• Work from anywhere: remote-first culture
• Flexible paid time off and year-end break
• Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents (US and Canada)
• 4% matching in 401k or RRSP (US and Canada)
• MacBook Pro delivered to your door
• One-time home office setup stipend for desk, chair, screen, and more
• Monthly meal stipend
• Monthly social meet-up stipend
• Annual health and wellness stipend
• Annual learning stipend

About Sardine

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime, unifying data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. The platform is backed by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.