Senior Manager, Systems Test and Software Quality Assurance

Who we areWith 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.

What we need

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.

What we doThe 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, Dev Ops, Systems Architecture, and Site Operations/Customer Engineering to institutionalize quality-first engineering practices, strengthen release readiness, and ensure seamless site acceptance.

What you'll do Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of senior system test and software quality engineers, driving technical excellence, clear career progression, continuous learning, and high accountability.

Contribute to formulating and drive the overarching software quality assurance vision, establishing modern verification standards, quality gates, and compliance across multi-tiered software, hardware, and distributed automation platforms.

Architect and oversee realistic, site-level customer simulation environments to benchmark system scale, stress limits, peak throughput, latency, availability, bottlenecks, and error budgets.

Embed automated test frameworks, harnesses, emulators, and AI-assisted tooling into CI/CD pipelines, configuration management tools, and cloud/on-prem environments to enable continuous performance and regression testing.

Oversee comprehensive end-to-end test programs spanning microservices, event-driven messaging architectures, API layers, multi-system integrations, and joint System Integration Testing with customer stakeholders.

Decompose complex system roadmaps into phased subsystem test plans, manage execution timelines and dependencies, and direct Release Readiness testing using key customer and site deployment scenarios.

Partner across Software Engineering, Dev Ops, Systems Architecture, and Site Operations/Customer Engineering to assess risk, accelerate defect resolution, and maintain rapid feedback loops. Travel to Symbotic production sites may be required up to 10%.What you'll need 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, Git Lab CI, Terraform, and Ansible.

Proficiency with basic SQL and comprehensive knowledge of Black Box, Backend/API, Regression, Integration, End-to-End, Load/Stress, Scale, and User Acceptance Testing; practical experience with AI-assisted QA tooling is preferred.

Our Environment Up to 10% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver's license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client locations and company HQ.Employees may be required to use a personal credit card for business travel expenses, which are reimbursed based on the program guidelines. Eligible…