# Manager, Software Test & Autonomation (R5461)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 160,000-240,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI's Software Test & Automation Team is responsible for developing verification, validation, and automation capabilities for Hivemind autonomy across various portfolios.

As the Software Test & Automation Manager, you will lead a multidisciplinary engineering team to define verification strategies, build automated validation capabilities, and establish software readiness standards across a diverse portfolio, including XBAT, VBAT, Weapons, Space, Maritime, and other emerging autonomy programs.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and grow a team of Software Test & Automation Engineers

- Define verification and validation strategies spanning simulation, SIL, HIL, VIL, and operational test environments

- Drive the development of automated regression testing, validation frameworks, and test infrastructure

- Establish software readiness criteria, quality gates, and objective performance metrics

- Partner with Digital Infrastructure to integrate automated validation into CI/CD pipelines

- Develop common automation frameworks, reusable test assets, and validation methodologies

- Coordinate software readiness activities with cross-functional teams

- Develop technical roadmaps, staffing plans, and engineering priorities

- Mentor engineers, conduct performance reviews, and recruit top talent

- Present software readiness assessments, technical risks, and validation status to stakeholders

Required qualifications:

- Experience leading a team of Software Test & Automation Engineers

- Experience defining verification and validation strategies

- Experience driving the development of automated regression testing and validation frameworks

- Experience establishing software readiness criteria and quality gates

- Experience partnering with digital infrastructure teams

- Experience developing technical roadmaps and staffing plans

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience supporting autonomous systems, robotics, or unmanned platforms

- Experience with software quality tools such as SonarQube

- Experience with ROS

- Experience developing software readiness metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting

- Experience supporting DoD programs and customer demonstrations

## Skills

### Required
- verification and validation
- automated regression testing
- software readiness criteria
- CI/CD pipelines
- automation frameworks

### Nice to have
- autonomous systems
- robotics
- unmanned platforms
- SonarQube
- ROS
- software readiness metrics

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