Veracyte
Manager Software Test Automation
San Diego, California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- Veracyte is seeking an experienced Manager, Software Test Automation, to lead our Quality Engineering Platform team.
- This team's mission is to enable every product engineering team to own software quality by providing scalable automation frameworks, self-service testing platforms, AI-assisted quality tools, and engineering best practices that accelerate software delivery while improving reliability, security, and compliance.
- Rather than functioning as a traditional QA organization, the Quality Engineering Platform team partners with Software Engineering, Product Management, CloudOps, Data & AI, Laboratory Operations, and DevOps to build quality into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing Quality Engineering Platform team.
- Build an engineering culture focused on innovation, continuous improvement, ownership, and operational excellence.
- Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineering talent while fostering career growth and technical leadership.
- Build and evolve self-service quality engineering platforms that enable product teams to independently validate their software.
- Develop scalable automation frameworks supporting unit, integration, API, UI, end-to-end, regression, performance, security, and compliance testing.
- Create reusable testing libraries, tooling, templates, and CI/CD integrations that standardize quality practices across engineering.
- Build AI-assisted capabilities for automated test generation, regression analysis, defect classification, release risk assessment, test maintenance, and synthetic test data creation.
- Partner with Data & AI teams to develop validation strategies for AI-powered products, including LLM evaluation, prompt regression testing, model monitoring, and human-in-the-loop verification.
- Partner with Software Engineering teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle using shift-left and shift-right engineering practices.
- Provide consulting, tooling, and technical guidance that enables product teams to deliver software with confidence.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 7 years of software engineering, quality engineering, or software development experience.
- 3+ years leading Quality Engineering, Test Engineering, SDET, or Developer Platform engineering teams.
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
- Strong understanding of AWS cloud technologies, APIs, distributed systems, and modern software architecture.
- 6 - 7 years of software engineering, quality engineering, or software development experience.
- Proven experience building engineering platforms that improve software quality and developer productivity.
- Strong background developing automated testing frameworks for cloud-native applications and distributed systems.
- Experience building internal developer platforms, engineering tooling, or self-service engineering capabilities.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, organizational, and people leadership skills.
Nice to have
- Experience using AI-assisted development and testing tools to improve engineering productivity.
- Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST Assured, Karate, Postman, JUnit, TestNG, or similar automation technologies.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native platforms.
- Experience implementing performance engineering, security testing, chaos engineering, or site reliability engineering practices.
- Experience working within regulated environments including HIPAA, FDA, CAP/CLIA, ISO 13485, or SOC 2.
- AWS certifications or software testing certifications are a plus.
- Experience leading distributed engineering organizations.
- What We Can Offer You
Compensation
- $147,000 - $163,000 USD
- We offer competitive compensation and benefits, and are committed to fostering an inclusive workforce, where diverse backgrounds are represented, engaged, and empowered to drive innovative ideas and decisions.
Benefits
- Enable continuous verification through automated quality gates, production validation, synthetic monitoring, and release health checks.
- Ensure software validation activities support regulatory requirements applicable to healthcare diagnostics, including HIPAA, CAP/CLIA, and FDA software quality expectations where appropriate.
- Veracyte (Nasdaq: VCYT) is a global diagnostics company whose vision is to transform cancer care for patients all over the world.
Company info
- At Veracyte, we offer exciting career opportunities for those interested in joining a pioneering team that is committed to transforming cancer care for patients across the globe.
- This is what we call the Veracyte way - it's about how we work together, guided by our values, to give clinicians the insights they need to help patients make life-changing decisions.
- Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
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