Test and Validation Manager

We are seeking a Test and Validation Manager to lead the end-to-end validation and readiness of our Retail IoT products before customer pilot deployment and this role you will lead and coach the Test & Validation team while partnering with globally distributed R&D teams across hardware firmware software cloud connectivity manufacturing and field operations to ensure products are integrated reliable and ready for real-world customer environments.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Team Leadership: Lead coach and develop a high-performing Test & Validation team building technical capability system-level thinking ownership and accountability.
• End-to-End Validation: Own product validation across hardware firmware software cloud connectivity and customer workflows.
• Validation Strategy: Partner with global R&D teams to define validation plans test coverage integration checkpoints performance targets and release criteria.
• System Integration Testing: Ensure complete system testing across device onboarding telemetry connectivity data flow performance customer workflows regression and recovery scenarios.
• Performance & Reliability: Monitor and evaluate product performance against defined quality reliability and business-critical metrics identifying trends and areas for improvement.
• Troubleshooting & Risk Management: Identify integration gaps dependencies and failure modes early and drive structured root-cause analysis across R&D Product Manufacturing Field and customer-facing teams.
• Readiness Reporting: Own validation dashboards and executive reports showing test progress critical defects performance trends open risks and launch readiness.
• Launch Readiness: Lead final validation reviews and provide Go / Conditional Go / No-Go recommendations for pilot deployment and scale readiness.

Qualifications :

Qualifications were looking for.

Experience:

• 7 years of experience in product validation systems engineering integration testing quality engineering or product development.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and complex cross-functional validation programs.

Skills:

• Experience validating complex connected products
• Strong understanding of system-level integration reliability regression performance and field validation.
• Experience defining validation strategies test plans release criteria and measurable acceptance metrics.
• Embedded Systems Testing: Experience validating embedded systems including hardwarefirmware integration device functionality interfaces and system-level performance.
• Test Automation: Experience developing and implementing automated testing frameworks to improve test coverage repeatability efficiency and regression testing
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across multidisciplinary systems.
• Experience with product KPIs validation dashboards defect trends and data-driven readiness decisions.
• Experience with IoT edge devices computer vision retail technology or large-scale connected-device deployments is highly desirable.

Abilities:

• Ability to lead coach mentor and develop engineers while setting clear priorities and accountability.
• Ability to translate complex technical findings into clear product and business risk recommendations.
• Strong collaboration communication and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced globally distributed environment.

Education:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering Computer Science Systems Engineering or a related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building or scaling test automation and continuous validation frameworks.
• Experience with embedded/IoT systems cloud platforms networking telemetry and OTA workflows.
• Experience supporting customer pilots field deployments manufacturing validation or large-scale product launches.

Additional Information :

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time