Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering

About this role

<p>&nbsp;</p> <div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are TRADER, a Canadian leader in digital automotive solutions. Our flagship brands —&nbsp;<strong>AutoTrader.ca</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>AutoSync</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Dealertrack Canada and CMS</strong>&nbsp;— help Canadians buy, sell, and finance vehicles with confidence.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As part of <strong>AutoScout24 group</strong>, Europe’s largest online car marketplace, we’re shaping the future of automotive retail in Canada and beyond.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Learn more at <a href="http://tradercorporation.com/">tradercorporation.com</a>.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This role will be within the<strong>&nbsp;AutoSync&nbsp;</strong>team. AutoSync supports over 3,500 dealerships nationwide, delivering cutting-edge software tools to simplify operations, boost marketing, and drive sales.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Role: Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering&nbsp;</strong></span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Location: Toronto</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>ABOUT THE ROLE&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At AutoSync, quality is owned by every product engineering team. The Quality Engineering team exists to make that possible at scale. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a small, high-impact team focused on quality enablement, agentic engineering, tooling, metrics, and coaching. This is not a traditional QA management role, and it is not a centralized testing function. The team acts as a center of practice for quality: helping engineers and teams build, test, ship, and operate healthier products themselves.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A major part of this mission is helping AutoSync move from ad hoc AI prompting toward a mature "on-the-loop" agentic model. In this model, engineers supervise capable agents that can support planning, implementation, testing, triage, pipeline diagnosis, and quality improvement through clear workflows, guardrails, and measurable outcomes.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You will manage up to 5 direct reports and work closely with engineering managers, staff engineers, product leaders, platform teams, and cross-department stakeholders. This role is ideal for a technical people leader who can combine engineering judgment, quality strategy, agentic tooling, and organizational influence.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>WHAT YOU WILL LEAD </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Agentic Quality Engineering</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Define how AutoSync uses agentic coding tools such as Codex and similar platforms to improve engineering quality and developer effectiveness.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build, mature, and scale reusable testing and quality agents, skills, workflows, and integrations that serve multiple engineering teams.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Establish practical patterns for agent supervision, validation, traceability, human review, and safe adoption.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Help teams move from manual prompting to reliable on-the-loop workflows where agents reduce toil, and engineers stay accountable for outcomes.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Evaluate emerging agentic tooling and translate useful capabilities into practical engineering workflows.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Quality Practice and Maturity </strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own and evolve AutoSync's quality maturity model, maturity indexes, standards, and KPIs.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coach engineering teams and individual engineers on modern testing, quality, and delivery practices.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Embed quality practices into planning, delivery, release, and operational rituals.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Participate in team ceremonies and cross-department planning where quality, delivery health, or engineering maturity are at stake.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Shift the organization away from centralized test execution and toward product-team ownership of quality.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Metrics, Dashboards, and Quality Intelligence </strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design and build metrics and dashboards that show pipeline quality, product quality, release health, and engineering maturity.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Provide visibility at team, product, and AutoSync-wide levels.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Use data to identify quality risks, slow feedback loops, flaky tests, pipeline bottlenecks, escaped defects, and coaching opportunities.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Help engineering leadership make better investment and tradeoff decisions using clear quality signals</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Training and Enablement </strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Create and run workshops, traini