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Senior Manager, Systems Test and Software Quality Assurance

Symbotic · USA Wilmington, MA - HQ · On-site

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About Symbotic

Discover Symbotic’s end-to-end warehouse automation solutions trusted by leading retailers and distributors. Backed by SoftBank VF.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Systems Test and Software Quality Assurance to join our Software Quality Assurance team within our Software Engineering organization. Your job will be to build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of senior system test and software quality engineers while driving the overarching software quality assurance vision. You will establish modern verification standards, quality gates, and compliance across multi-tiered software, hardware, and distributed automation platforms. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Minimum of 12 years of progressive quality assurance or test engineering experience, with a proven track record of directly managing, mentoring, and scaling a team of senior engineers
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
  • Experience leading customer-facing System Integration Testing and architecting realistic site-level simulation environments for complex operational workloads, stress limits, and peak throughput
  • Expertise establishing and analyzing operational KPIs, including transaction throughput, end-to-end latency, error budgets, resource utilization, SLA/SLO performance, and data-driven release readiness gates
  • Deep technical background validating distributed systems, microservices, Service-Oriented Architecture, REST/gRPC APIs, and asynchronous messaging brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AMQP
  • Hands-on experience integrating test frameworks, emulators, and virtualized test harnesses into CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code environments, including Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Terraform, and Ansible
More about this role

With its A.I.-powered robotic technology platform, Symbotic is changing the way consumer goods move through the supply chain. Intelligent software orchestrates advanced robots in a high-density, end-to-end system – reinventing warehouse automation for increased efficiency, speed and flexibility.

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Systems Test and Software Quality Assurance to join our Software Quality Assurance team within our Software Engineering organization. Your job will be to build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of senior system test and software quality engineers while driving the overarching software quality assurance vision. You will establish modern verification standards, quality gates, and compliance across multi-tiered software, hardware, and distributed automation platforms.

The Software Quality Assurance team is part of the Software Engineering organization and is responsible for validating complex, multi-system robotic solutions under realistic customer and site operating conditions. The team partners across Software Engineering, DevOps, Systems Architecture, and Site Operations/Customer Engineering to institutionalize quality-first engineering...

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