Test Manager - AI First
Cluepoints
Company Description
At CluePoints, we’re redefining how clinical trials are run. As the premier provider of Risk-Based Quality Management (RBQM) and Data Quality Oversight software, we harness advanced statistics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to ensure the quality, accuracy, and integrity of clinical trial data, helping life sciences organizations bring safer, more effective treatments to patients faster.
We’re proud to be an ambitious, fast-growing technology scale-up with a dynamic and diverse international team representing more than 20 nationalities. Collaboration, flexibility, and continuous learning are part of our DNA.
At CluePoints, you’ll find a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and have fun along the way.Guided by our values of Care, Passion, and Smart Disruption, we’re united by a shared mission: to create smarter ways to run efficient clinical trials and deliver AI-powered insights that improve human outcomes worldwide.
The Role
Reporting to the Quality Director, you will own testing strategy and quality outcomes across 3–5 cross-functional squads within a product domain. You will directly manage and mentor a team of approximately 5–7 testers (manual and automation) while remaining hands-on in quality and automation practices.
This role combines leadership and execution. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Release Management to embed risk-based quality practices, ensure test readiness, and support reliable delivery.
We operate with an AI-first engineering mindset. As Test Manager, you are expected to actively use and champion AI-powered tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Codex, AI-assisted test generation and intelligent regression optimisation) to increase efficiency, improve coverage, and drive smarter quality decisions across your squads.
- Proven quality leadership experience within cross-functional Agile teams (Engineering, Product Owners, Release Management).
- Demonstrated people management and mentoring experience, leading 5–7 team members.
- Experience overseeing quality delivery across multiple squads (3–5).
- Minimum 3 years hands-on test automation experience.
- Proven track record in regression, end-to-end, and integration testing.
- Full-stack test engineering experience from testing backend (APIs, services, data layers) to frontend (UI).
- Practical experience using AI-powered engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, or similar AI-assisted development/testing platforms.
- Strong understanding of risk-based testing principles and intelligent regression strategies.
- Excellent communication, planning, prioritisation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to define, track, and improve quality metrics.
- Own end-to-end quality outcomes for 3–5 squads, ensuring consistent standards and delivery excellence.
- Act as the go-to testing and quality leader for your squads / product scope.
- Manage and mentor a team of 5–7 testers, supporting their growth in both automation and AI-enabled quality engineering practices.
- Lead squad-level quality planning, risk analysis, and test execution oversight based on both leadership capability and hands-on product knowledge.
- Define and implement an AI-first testing approach, embedding AI-assisted test design, automation acceleration, and intelligent defect analysis.
- Drive efficient regression strategies leveraging automation and AI-supported optimisation.
- Contribute hands-on to automation frameworks and complex testing initiatives where required.
- Ensure full-stack quality coverage across APIs, services, data processing layers, and UI.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering on release readiness and validation.
- Represent quality in team ceremonies and planning sessions.
- Partner with Chapter Leads to apply best practices, standardise quality approaches, and continuously grow tester capabilities across squads.