Integrated Test Manager – Warehouse Automation

About the role

We are seeking an Integrated Test Manager – Warehouse Automation / ASRS to lead end-to-end testing strategy, governance, execution, and go-live readiness for a large-scale warehouse automation and distribution systems implementation. This role will serve as the central testing and readiness lead across Operations, Engineering, Technology, Business SMEs, system integrators, automation vendors, and third-party partners.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the overall Master Test Plan, testing methodology, governance framework, quality gates, entry/exit criteria, and readiness approach.
• Lead integrated testing across FIT, SIT, UAT, DIAL, regression, performance, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
• Build and manage integrated test schedules, milestones, dependencies, resources, environments, and deliverables.
• Coordinate testing across ASRS, conveyors, sortation, automation equipment, WMS, WCS, PLCs, host systems, and system interfaces.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, IT, Business SMEs, automation vendors, software teams, and system integrators to coordinate end-to-end validation.
• Define test scenarios, scripts, test data, environments, business validation requirements, and regression strategies.
• Establish and manage defect governance, prioritization, escalation, resolution tracking, and quality reporting.
• Validate end-to-end integration between warehouse automation equipment, controls, software applications, and business processes.
• Coordinate functional and operational testing of automation equipment, including rate, throughput, performance, availability, and reliability testing.
• Establish go-live readiness criteria and drive formal readiness reviews, acceptance decisions, and executive signoffs.
• Support cutover planning, command-center activities, rollback planning, business continuity, go-live, and post-go-live hypercare.
• Maintain PMO dashboards, RAID logs, testing metrics, milestone tracking, and executive-level reporting.
• Identify testing risks, dependencies, gaps, and schedule impacts and drive mitigation plans.
• Ensure testing activities remain aligned with the overall implementation and release roadmap.

Requirements

Important Requirement: Hands-on testing experience with warehouse automation, ASRS, and material handling equipment (MHE) is mandatory. Candidates with only traditional software QA or WMS testing experience will not be considered.

Qualifications

• 5–6+ years of relevant test management / test leadership experience in warehouse automation, distribution, supply chain, or related environments.
• Mandatory hands-on experience testing warehouse automation / ASRS / MHE systems.
• Practical experience with one or more of the following: AS/RS or ASRS systems, Conveyors, Sortation systems, Material handling equipment, PLC controls, Warehouse Control Systems (WCS), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Host/system interfaces, Automation and controls integration.
• Strong hands-on experience with SIT, UAT, FIT, regression, and integrated end-to-end testing.
• Experience with cutover, go-live readiness, and/or hypercare activities.
• Experience coordinating testing across multiple vendors, system integrators, technology teams, and business stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of warehouse/distribution center operations and how automation systems support those operations.
• Experience with testing governance, defect management, quality gates, readiness criteria, metrics, and executive reporting.
• Experience using tools such as JIRA and Confluence or similar testing/project management platforms.
• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Ability to manage complex, multi-phase implementation timelines and competing priorities.

Skills

• testing
• interfaces
• readiness
• go
• warehouse automation
• management
• operations
• automation
• live