Manager, QA Automation

About the role

Forescout is seeking a dynamic, results-oriented Engineering Manager for Test Automation (SDET) to lead and grow the company's automation-first quality engineering team. The role involves leading and growing a team of SDETs and QA engineers responsible for test automation across Forescout product lines, balancing automation and manual testing efforts, and partnering with Engineering, Product, and DevOps to embed quality early and integrate automated quality gates into the release pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of SDETs and QA engineers responsible for test automation across Forescout product lines — owning delivery accountability, people development, and team culture.
• Define and drive an automation-first quality strategy: design, scale, and maintain robust, reusable test automation frameworks integrated directly into CI/CD pipelines.
• Stand up and evolve an AI/agent-assisted test-generation capability — guiding the team toward LLM and agent-driven test creation, self-healing scripts, and intelligent, risk-based test prioritization.
• Balance automation and manual testing efforts, ensuring strong coverage and quality across functional, regression, API, performance, and security testing.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and DevOps to embed quality early (shift-left) and integrate automated quality gates into the release pipeline.
• Define, track, and act on quality and automation metrics (coverage, flakiness, defect escape rate, cycle time) to drive continuous improvement.
• Hire and onboard new team members, and own performance evaluation, career development, and growth planning for the team.
• Ensure regulatory and security compliance within QA processes where applicable.
• Serve as a trusted quality partner across cross-functional teams, managing priorities and risk in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Requirements

Key Skills:

• Excellent leadership and people management — a track record of building and growing high-performing automation or quality engineering teams.
• Strategic thinking and cross-functional collaboration.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Coaching, performance development, and hiring.
• Risk management and sound decision-making in fast-paced environments.
• Project management and agile methodologies.
• Curiosity and fluency around applying AI and generative AI to engineering workflows.

Core Technical Competencies:

• Deep understanding of test automation frameworks, QA methodologies, and the SDLC, with a hands-on engineering background.
• Proficiency building automation in one or more languages (Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or C#).
• Experience with modern automation tooling (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG/JUnit, Appium) and API testing (REST Assured, Postman).
• Strong CI/CD integration experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and cloud/containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Command of code quality, defect prevention, and test metrics and reporting.
• Familiarity with compliance standards (e.g., ISO, SOC 2) in QA processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in test automation and quality assurance roles.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality automated test suites and maintaining them over time.
• Experience with AI and generative AI tools and techniques relevant to software testing.
• Experience with LLMs and generative AI to software testing.
• Experience with AI-assisted testing and measuring its quality and trustworthiness.

Skills

• Practical interest or experience applying LLMs and generative AI to software testing — prompt engineering for test generation and evaluating and validating AI-generated tests.
• Vision for building agentic frameworks, where AI agents help author and maintain tests, with the engineering rigor to keep them reliable (mutation scoring, deterministic gating, flake management).

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits – we cover 85% of employee and dependents’ benefits premiums (US only), 401K match, generous PTO policy, and much more.

A collaborative and innovative environment – make an impact on worldwide security while working on the hottest technology.

Leadership that supports and encourages professional growth and development.

Learn more at: www.forescout.com