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Manager, Quality Engineering

Appian · McLean, Virginia · On-site

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About Appian

AI automation for critical processes. Appian orchestrates AI agents, systems, and people on an enterprise platform, without replacing your systems. Backed by NEA.

About the role

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together.

What they're looking for

  • Quality Leadership & Team Management: Lead, mentor, and expand a team of QA engineers. Establish performance goals, conduct code reviews for test suites, and foster a culture of quality across engineering
  • CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated test suites directly into DevOps pipelines (GitLab CI) to enable automated smoke, regression, and release testing
  • Test Process Optimization: Shift testing left by embedding QA early in the SDLC, defining test plans during sprint planning, and driving automated test coverage targets (e.g., >80%)
  • Metrics & Reporting: Establish key quality metrics (defect density, test execution time, automation coverage, mean time to detect/resolve) and present actionable dashboards to executive leadership
  • Tooling & Infrastructure: Select, evaluate, and manage QA tools and performance testing tools
  • Isolate Codebase Impact: Assess the structural impact of changes across the entire codebase through meticulous code reviews, ensuring engineering best practices are followed
More about this role

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our Quality Engineering team at Appian is dedicated to ensuring our enterprise software platform is flawless, resilient, and optimized for global scale. We operate in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment focused on deep-tier technical precision, automated architecture, and continuous delivery pipelines. By joining this specialized group, you will collaborate directly with our Business Technology Development team to deliver robust validation frameworks that expand the capabilities of our AI-Powered Process Automation platform.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking a Quality Assurance Manager with deep, hands-on test automation expertise to lead our QA team and elevate our automated testing ecosystem. In this role, you will define the overall test...

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