Manager, Quality Assurance Engineering

McDonald’s Corporation

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Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$127,332–$159,165 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
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This role pays less than 86% of similar roles. Most pay $161,125–$233,600 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $143k versus about $197k for comparable roles.

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About McDonald’s Corporation

McDonald’s Corporation is the world's largest fast-food chain by revenue, operating over 40,000 locations in more than 100 countries.

McDonald’s Corporation currently has 19 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $128,883–$161,103 across 18 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Manager, Quality Assurance Engineering

The Manager, Quality Assurance Engineering joins the Platform Resilience - Quality Pillar to lead delivery and quality-enablement for large-scale Restaurant Tech initiatives. This role ensures complex, cross-squad projects move predictably across markets by owning test strategy alignment, execution governance, and dependency management. You will build scalable, extensible test automation solutions for consumer-facing systems, including GUI-based automation, backend automation for dark deployments, and end-to-end asynchronous validation. Key responsibilities include managing quality gates, enforcing standards, and optimizing regression suites to protect markets from unstable code. You will utilize CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and tools like Appium, Kotlin, Selenium, and BrowserStack. The role solves the challenge of maintaining high-quality, production-ready outcomes for global digital products, mobile apps, and POS software within a complex, distributed restaurant technology environment.

What you'll do

  • Lead quality gating and release readiness for large-scale, customer-facing Restaurant Tech initiatives.
  • Establish and enforce consistent quality standards and governance across multiple workstreams.
  • Design and implement scalable test automation solutions for complex consumer-facing systems.
  • Own end-to-end test strategy and execution across multiple devices, environments, and global markets.
  • Manage complex, cross-functional initiatives while prioritizing high-impact work and negotiating trade-offs.
  • Translate technical risks into clear business impact assessments for informed decision-making.
  • Lead launch readiness reviews and go/no-go decision forums to communicate risk exposure.
  • Oversee Quality Services capacity, including resource allocation and environment access readiness.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in quality engineering, test leadership, release management, or cross-functional testing strategy and management.
  • Proven experience leading quality gating, release readiness, and test execution for large-scale, customer-facing platforms.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, environment promotion, automation frameworks, and progressive delivery concepts.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex dependencies and ambiguity in fast-moving environments.
  • Superior interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Experience working on POS software, mobile apps, and customer-facing digital products.
  • Expertise in test strategy, defect prioritization, risk-based testing, and release planning.
  • Experience in QSR, retail, hospitality, or large distributed systems (preferred).
  • Experience in QAE, SDET, Quality Engineering Lead, or Test Automation Lead/Architect roles (preferred).
  • Proficiency in Java or Python with scripting expertise in frameworks like Appium, Kotlin, and Selenium (preferred).
  • Experience in device testing across physical/virtual environments and field testing in production store environments (preferred).

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