Linus Health is a Boston-based digital health company focused on transforming brain health for people across the world. By advancing how we detect, diagnose, and address cognitive and brain disorders – leveraging cutting-edge neuroscience, clinical expertise, and artificial intelligence – our goal is to enable a future where people can live longer, happier, and healthier lives with better brain health.

We are a team of 100+(and growing!), embarking on an exciting period of accelerated growth.  We invite collaborative, self-driven and impact-oriented professionals to join our dynamic and fast-growing team.

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The Role

The Quality Engineering Manager (QE Manager) is responsible for managing our dedicated quality engineering team and overseeing the Linus Health Engineering quality program. The QE Manager will collaborate with key stakeholders to define and execute plans for measuring and improving code quality, ensure our product meets the specified design and functionality requirements, propose process and architecture changes to improve testing efficiency, and lead efforts to minimize manual testing in favor of automated test suites. 

Working Hours

Linus Health is a distributed company with a headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and many remote employees across numerous time zones. Linus Health fully supports those who wish to work remotely, and to facilitate collaboration with all team members we do ask for a core set of working hours of 9am to 5pm eastern time.

What You’ll do:

• Actively manage a team of automation engineers and manual testers
• Implement and uphold quality assurance processes, guidelines, and best practices throughout the Software Development Lifecycle
• Partner with key stakeholders to define quality measurements and influence overall strategy to improve and maintain the quality of our software
• Analyze quality metrics regularly, identifying areas for improvement and driving the necessary corrective/preventive measures.
• Participate in the feature development process, ensuring quality remains a top priority from the start.
• Encourage iteration over perfection and decisiveness instead over-analysis to hit our quality objectives
• Communicate quality responsibilities and scope clearly for the Engineering organization and the dedicated quality team.
• Provide hands-on leadership and technical guidance, coaching both manual testers and automation engineers to help them develop their skills and progress in their careers
• Ensure quality best-practices are followed by the team and provide actionable and timely feedback to team members.
• Define performance objectives and development plans for team members and ensure alignment with department objectives.
• Identify hard-to-test areas of the product and coordinate with architects and developers to refactor existing code/systems to improve testability.
• Work with product representatives to highlight key areas of the customer experience and ensure appropriate testing is established to minimize risk of a defect.
• Participate in regulatory signoff of our medical device

About You

Must Have:

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering experience.
• Experience building and running a Quality Engineering team in an Agile environment with at least 3 direct reports or serving as a technical lead and mentor on a Quality Engineering team
• Experience with globally distributed teams
• Experience with testing of mobile applications (iOS) or web applications
• Experience working with both manual testers and automation engineers
• Experience advocating for and building an engineering quality program into the software development lifecycle from initial ideation to production monitoring.
• Experience with software quality assurance methodologies, tools, best practices, and quantitative measurements to define and guide successful implementation of a quality program.
• Hands-on experience with Selenium, Appium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar
• Hands-on experience writing node, java, or python code for internal tooling
• Hands-on experience testing JavaScript and NodeJS systems
• Excellent communication and relationship skills

Nice To Have:

• Start-up experience
• Experience with testing Android applications 
• Experience with test management tools such as xray or testrail
• App and Browser testing tools such as BrowserStack

What We Offer:

• As a health and wellness company, an opportunity to have a lasting impact on the way people and communities engage with brain and mental health, and even to affect the prognoses of people’s mental and brain health trajectory
• A mission driven environment where all 100+ employees strive to exemplify our core values every day
• Unlimited PTO -- We know this can work both ways, however our leadership team does an excellent job at encouraging people to take PTO
• A sincere and deep appreciation for the importance of mental health: We have recently implemented a “monthly flex day” where employees are encouraged to take time away from work to rest, recharge & reset.
• A peer-to-peer recognition program: Celebrating our employees’ hard work and success is in our DNA!
• Employee Referral Incentive program
• A robust healthcare package that includes medical, dental & vision benefits as well as a 401(k) program where Linus will match up to 6% of employee contribution
• The base salary budgeted for this position for someone based in the US is in the $145,000-170,000 range per year. For someone based in Canada, the salary budgeted for this role is in the 145-175K(CAD) range yearly. The role will also include an annual discretionary bonus target based on performance as well as company equity. The final offer determined for a candidate who is hired into this position will depend on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidates relevant skills, professional experience and labor market conditions, etc.

Linus Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, genetic information, disability or any characteristic protected by law. We believe that diversity is critical to the growth of our company and understand the importance of fostering an environment where everyone has a voice. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities during the recruiting process. If you are in need of assistance due to a disability, please contact us.