QA Manager
Notion
Hyderabad, IndiaPosted 2 months ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Based in Hyderabad, India (on-site)
- In-office work required on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays
Role overview
Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together, unifying knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools to make work faster and less fragmented. As the leader of Notion’s central QA team, you will set the QA roadmap, establish quality standards, and drive measurable improvements in product quality. The role focuses on building scalable CI/CD quality gates, improving early detection of risks, and partnering across teams to maintain high shipping velocity without compromising trust. This position is based in Hyderabad, India, with in-office work required on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays (Anchor Days).
Responsibilities
- Lead Notion’s central QA team and the QA roadmap, setting clear ownership and quality standards that scale across Notion
- Improve real product quality outcomes with strong judgment about where risk is building and how to catch it early
- Build and evolve CI/CD quality gates aligned to Notion’s reliability/quality goals
- Improve early detection of issues and partner across teams and platforms to keep shipping velocity high without breaking trust
- Make quality a shared, measurable system across Notion—clear standards, predictable signal, and fewer surprises as we ship
- Establish a single QA roadmap + prioritization rubric used cross-team, and align partners on quality standards and decision rights (by 30th day)
- Define and roll out CI/CD release quality gates aligned to quality/reliability goals for critical pipelines; make CI signal more reliable (less flake, faster feedback) for top workflows (by 60th day)
- Use AI/agents to generate and maintain high-signal tests, automate detection → triage → recommended fixes, and package those workflows so teams can reuse them (by 90th day)
- Raise the bar with a stable, highly automated QA org that measurably reduces escaped critical issues/SLO breaks and expands into scalable performance + reliability test coverage for key workflows (by end of year 1)
- Coach and develop QA engineers: raise the bar through mentorship, feedback, and clear career ladders/expectations
- Build tight partnerships across Engineering, Product, Design, Support, and other teams to stay ahead of changes and pain points across Notion
Requirements
- Experience leading QA teams and owning a QA roadmap focused on measurable quality outcomes
- Strong QA-first mindset with a software engineering orientation (roughly 70% QA / 30% engineering) — able to set standards and also build/ship the systems that enforce them
- Outcome ownership: focuses on measurable product quality improvements (risk reduction, fewer escapes, higher confidence) rather than “tools” or checklist-driven QA work; strong judgment for where risk is building and how to catch it early
- Strong grasp of CI/CD and how automated test suites run, fail, and gate releases in practice
- Ability to design and implement QA automation frameworks; has written AI-assisted/AI-driven automation tests in code (not just tooling evaluation)
- Understand how AI has shaped modern QA and can apply AI/agents to accelerate quality workflows (test generation/maintenance, flake reduction, triage, and prevention) while fitting into existing team momentum
- Fluency with observability fundamentals and tools (e.g., Datadog/Honeycomb): defining metrics, dashboards, and using signal to detect risk early
- Proven ability to operate in a central QA model—aligning multiple teams/platforms on shared quality standards, priorities, and clear ownership
- Strong cross-functional collaborator
Nice to have
- Comfortable with our QA automation stack and eager to learn/level it up; able to evaluate alternatives and propose pragmatic improvements
Additional details
- This role is based in Hyderabad, India
- We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person
- We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during those days
- #LI-Onsite
- A Note on AI: You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on.
- Equal Opportunity & Accommodations: We hire talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply. Notion is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic. Consistent with applicable law, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Notion provides reasonable accommodations during the application process; if you need one, please let your recruiter know.
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