Remote Quality Engineering Manager Jobs
Remote quality engineering manager jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first companies and distributed engineering teams hiring for this role in sectors including software, fintech, healthcare technology, and enterprise SaaS. Employers hiring remotely right now include Humana, CVS Health, and Comfrt. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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HHAeXchange is the leading technology platform for home and community-based care. Founded in 2008, HHAeXchange was born out of an idea to create a fully comprehensive end-to-end homecare solution to help people who are aging or have disabilities thrive in their homes and communities. Our employees are passionate about transforming the healthcare space by building the only homecare ecosystem that fully connects patients, personal care providers, managed care organizations, and states.
The Director, Quality Engineering will lead the enterprise-wide quality strategy and Quality Assurance (QA) program across HHAeXchange. This role is responsible for standardizing testing processes and tools, driving test automation, and ensuring our products meet high standards for reliability, performance, security, and accessibility. The Director, Quality Engineering will oversee functional and non-functional testing practices, including accessibility (WCAG) and security-related validation, and will own processes that support customer User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This is a fully remote opportunity for candidates located in the EST or CST time zones within the US only.
Essential Job Duties
- Enterprise Quality Leadership: Develop, implement, and lead the overall quality strategy and QA operating model across the organization.
- Standardize Testing Processes: Define and enforce consistent testing approaches including test planning, test cases, regression strategy, and release readiness criteria.
- Tooling Ownership: Select, implement, and manage enterprise testing tools for test management, automation, performance, accessibility, and security validation.
- Automation Strategy: Drive increased automated test coverage across UI, API, mobile, and services, reducing reliance on manual regression testing.
- Compliance, Accessibility & VPAT Reporting:
- Lead accessibility testing programs aligned to WCAG 2.1+
- Oversee creation and maintenance of Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs) and Accessibility Conformance Reports
- Partner with Product, Legal, and Compliance to respond to customer accessibility requirements and audits
- Security & Compliance Testing Support: Coordinate with Security teams on SAST/DAST, vulnerability validation, and remediation tracking.
- Customer UAT Support:
- Define and support customer UAT strategies and environments
- Provide test plans, data guidance, and defect triage support during customer acceptance testing cycles
- Ensure feedback from UAT informs release decisions and product quality improvements
- Quality Metrics & Reporting: Establish KPIs to measure product quality, defect escape rate, automation coverage, UAT outcomes, and release readiness; communicate results to leadership.
- Shift-Left Quality Practices: Embed quality earlier in the development lifecycle through collaboration on requirements, acceptance criteria, and CI/CD integration.
- Incident & Defect Management: Oversee defect triage for high-priority production and pre-production issues and ensure timely resolution and root-cause prevention.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Compliance to ensure alignment of quality practices across releases.
- Organizational Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of QA engineers, SDETs, automation engineers, and accessibility/compliance testers.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify quality gaps and drive process improvements that improve product reliability, reduce rework, and increase delivery confidence.
- Release Governance: Participate in release readiness reviews and serve as a key stakeholder in go/no-go decisions.
- Coding agent advocacy: Help onboard team members to AI development tools. Share techniques, prompt patterns, and review practices that make AI-augmented development effective and safe in a regulated environment.
Other Job Duties
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor or HHAeXchange leader.
Travel Requirements
- Travel up to 10%, including overnight travel
Required Education, Experience, Certifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering within a software product company, with a focus on developing scalable, high-performance systems.
- 4+ years leading QA organizations or enterprise quality programs.
- Proven experience designing and implementing standardized QA processes and test automation strategies in SaaS environments.
- Hands-on experience implementing automated testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with accessibility testing and standards such as WCAG 2.1+ and authoring VPATs/ACRs.
- Experience supporting security testing practices such as vulnerability scanning, SAST/DAST, and penetration test remediation validation.
- Experience supporting or running customer UAT processes.
- Strong understanding of quality metrics (defect rates, coverage, MTTR, escape rate, etc.) and how to operationalize them.
- Background working in cloud-based architectures and microservices environments.
- Demonstrated success collaborating across engineering, product, and security teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing QA and automation teams.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical partners.
- AI/ML fundamentals: Familiarity with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and how generative AI can be applied in a product context. Direct project experience preferred.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
HHAeXchange is the leading technology platform for home and community-based care. Founded in 2008, HHAeXchange was born out of an idea to create a fully comprehensive end-to-end homecare solution to help people who are aging or have disabilities thrive in their homes and communities. Our employees are passionate about transforming the healthcare space by building the only homecare ecosystem that fully connects patients, personal care providers, managed care organizations, and states.
The Director, Quality Engineering will lead the enterprise-wide quality strategy and Quality Assurance (QA) program across HHAeXchange. This role is responsible for standardizing testing processes and tools, driving test automation, and ensuring our products meet high standards for reliability, performance, security, and accessibility. The Director, Quality Engineering will oversee functional and non-functional testing practices, including accessibility (WCAG) and security-related validation, and will own processes that support customer User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This is a fully remote opportunity for candidates located in the EST or CST time zones within the US only.
Essential Job Duties
- Enterprise Quality Leadership: Develop, implement, and lead the overall quality strategy and QA operating model across the organization.
- Standardize Testing Processes: Define and enforce consistent testing approaches including test planning, test cases, regression strategy, and release readiness criteria.
- Tooling Ownership: Select, implement, and manage enterprise testing tools for test management, automation, performance, accessibility, and security validation.
- Automation Strategy: Drive increased automated test coverage across UI, API, mobile, and services, reducing reliance on manual regression testing.
- Compliance, Accessibility & VPAT Reporting:
- Lead accessibility testing programs aligned to WCAG 2.1+
- Oversee creation and maintenance of Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs) and Accessibility Conformance Reports
- Partner with Product, Legal, and Compliance to respond to customer accessibility requirements and audits
- Security & Compliance Testing Support: Coordinate with Security teams on SAST/DAST, vulnerability validation, and remediation tracking.
- Customer UAT Support:
- Define and support customer UAT strategies and environments
- Provide test plans, data guidance, and defect triage support during customer acceptance testing cycles
- Ensure feedback from UAT informs release decisions and product quality improvements
- Quality Metrics & Reporting: Establish KPIs to measure product quality, defect escape rate, automation coverage, UAT outcomes, and release readiness; communicate results to leadership.
- Shift-Left Quality Practices: Embed quality earlier in the development lifecycle through collaboration on requirements, acceptance criteria, and CI/CD integration.
- Incident & Defect Management: Oversee defect triage for high-priority production and pre-production issues and ensure timely resolution and root-cause prevention.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Compliance to ensure alignment of quality practices across releases.
- Organizational Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of QA engineers, SDETs, automation engineers, and accessibility/compliance testers.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify quality gaps and drive process improvements that improve product reliability, reduce rework, and increase delivery confidence.
- Release Governance: Participate in release readiness reviews and serve as a key stakeholder in go/no-go decisions.
- Coding agent advocacy: Help onboard team members to AI development tools. Share techniques, prompt patterns, and review practices that make AI-augmented development effective and safe in a regulated environment.
Other Job Duties
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor or HHAeXchange leader.
Travel Requirements
- Travel up to 10%, including overnight travel
Required Education, Experience, Certifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering within a software product company, with a focus on developing scalable, high-performance systems.
- 4+ years leading QA organizations or enterprise quality programs.
- Proven experience designing and implementing standardized QA processes and test automation strategies in SaaS environments.
- Hands-on experience implementing automated testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with accessibility testing and standards such as WCAG 2.1+ and authoring VPATs/ACRs.
- Experience supporting security testing practices such as vulnerability scanning, SAST/DAST, and penetration test remediation validation.
- Experience supporting or running customer UAT processes.
- Strong understanding of quality metrics (defect rates, coverage, MTTR, escape rate, etc.) and how to operationalize them.
- Background working in cloud-based architectures and microservices environments.
- Demonstrated success collaborating across engineering, product, and security teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing QA and automation teams.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical partners.
- AI/ML fundamentals: Familiarity with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and how generative AI can be applied in a product context. Direct project experience preferred.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Who's Hiring
- Humana11
- CVS Health3
- Comfrt1C
- micro11
- Philips1
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote quality engineering manager jobs.
- 7 or more years of quality engineering experience with at least 2 in a leadership role
- Hands-on expertise with quality management systems such as ISO 9001, IATF 16949, or AS9100
- Proficiency in root cause analysis methodologies including 8D, FMEA, and DMAIC
- Experience managing supplier quality audits, corrective action processes, and PPAP documentation
- Familiarity with statistical process control tools and measurement system analysis
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, manufacturing, or a related technical discipline
Tips for Your Remote Quality Engineering Manager Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote quality engineering manager openings from across the U.S. in one place. Search roles that match your QA leadership background and apply directly, without sorting through on-site listings mixed into your results.
Show your async quality leadership style
Remote employers want to see how you document QA strategy, run distributed team standups, and communicate test results without being in the same room. Highlight async artifacts, written runbooks, and remote retrospectives you have led in your resume and cover letter.
Demonstrate remote CI/CD and tooling fluency
Quality engineering managers on distributed teams own the entire automated pipeline. Call out your hands-on experience with remote-compatible CI/CD platforms, test orchestration tools, and defect tracking systems your team used asynchronously across time zones.
Prepare for remote panel interviews on quality strategy
Distributed engineering teams often interview quality engineering manager candidates across engineering, product, and DevOps stakeholders in a single remote panel. Practice walking through your QA philosophy, incident response decisions, and how you set quality standards without co-location.
Remote Quality Engineering Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote quality engineering manager job?
Target companies that run distributed engineering teams, since they build remote quality processes into their culture rather than treating them as an afterthought. Remote employers screen heavily for self-direction, clear written communication, and experience owning QA strategy without in-person oversight. Demonstrating async collaboration skills, familiarity with remote CI/CD pipelines, and a history of leading distributed QA teams gives you a real edge over candidates with purely on-site backgrounds.
Which companies hire remote quality engineering managers?
Companies hiring remote quality engineering managers right now include Humana, CVS Health, and Comfrt, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first software firms, distributed SaaS platforms, and healthcare technology companies are especially active in hiring quality engineering managers who can lead QA programs across geographically dispersed teams.
Can you get a remote quality engineering manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote quality engineering manager roles at the entry level are harder to land because employers expect candidates to operate independently from day one without on-site mentorship. Early-career candidates can open the door by contributing to open-source QA projects, earning testing or quality certifications, and demonstrating async work habits through documented remote contributions. Smaller remote-first startups are more likely to take a chance on candidates building toward the manager level.
Do you need a degree for remote quality engineering manager jobs?
Not always. Remote employers increasingly weigh demonstrated QA leadership, hands-on experience with test automation frameworks, and measurable outcomes over a formal degree requirement. A portfolio showing you have shipped quality programs, reduced defect rates, or scaled a QA function on a distributed team carries more weight than a credential alone. Some employers do list a bachelor's in computer science or engineering as preferred, but equivalent experience routinely substitutes.
Which industries hire the most remote quality engineering managers?
The sectors hiring the most remote quality engineering managers are Technology & Software, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These industries rely on distributed engineering teams where centralized, in-person QA oversight is impractical, making remote quality engineering managers a structural necessity rather than an accommodation.
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