Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering

About this role

We are TRADER, a Canadian leader in digital automotive solutions. Our flagship brands — AutoTrader.ca, AutoSync, Dealertrack Canada and CMS — help Canadians buy, sell, and finance vehicles with confidence.

As part of AutoScout24 group, Europe’s largest online car marketplace, we’re shaping the future of automotive retail in Canada and beyond.

Learn more at tradercorporation.com.

This role will be within the AutoSync team. AutoSync supports over 3,500 dealerships nationwide, delivering cutting-edge software tools to simplify operations, boost marketing, and drive sales.

Role: Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering

Location: Toronto

ABOUT THE ROLE

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.

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.

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.

WHAT YOU WILL LEAD

Agentic Quality Engineering

• Define how AutoSync uses agentic coding tools such as Codex and similar platforms to improve engineering quality and developer effectiveness.

• Build, mature, and scale reusable testing and quality agents, skills, workflows, and integrations that serve multiple engineering teams.

• Establish practical patterns for agent supervision, validation, traceability, human review, and safe adoption.

• Help teams move from manual prompting to reliable on-the-loop workflows where agents reduce toil, and engineers stay accountable for outcomes.

• Evaluate emerging agentic tooling and translate useful capabilities into practical engineering workflows.

Quality Practice and Maturity

• Own and evolve AutoSync's quality maturity model, maturity indexes, standards, and KPIs.

• Coach engineering teams and individual engineers on modern testing, quality, and delivery practices.

• Embed quality practices into planning, delivery, release, and operational rituals.

• Participate in team ceremonies and cross-department planning where quality, delivery health, or engineering maturity are at stake.

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