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Manager, Thermal Controls Platforms Testing

Vertiv · Westerville, OH · 5 days ago
Quality AssuranceFull-time

About the role

This posting is for an experienced Manager, Thermal Controls Platforms Testing who will lead validation and verification activities for Vertiv's thermal controls platforms on both embedded thermal unit platforms and thermal system software.

Responsibilities

  • Own the platform test strategy: define test levels (unit, integration, system, regression), coverage goals, and quality gates for thermal controls platform releases

  • Lead a team of test engineers: hire, coach, develop, and performance-manage testers; set priorities and ensure execution quality

  • Test planning and scheduling: create milestone-aligned test plans (including entry/exit criteria), resource plans, and lab utilization plans

  • Drive automation at scale: develop/standardize automated test frameworks, automated regression suites, and repeatable lab workflows to reduce cycle time

  • Own lab readiness and test environments: ensure test rigs, simulators, instrumentation, and data capture are available, calibrated, and fit for purpose

  • System-level validation: validate performance, stability, fault handling, and recovery behaviors across integrated thermal controls solutions (equipment interactions, sequencing, and supervisory behavior)

  • Integration validation: verify communications and interoperability with internal and external third-party equipment and interfaces (as applicable)

  • Defect management and quality reporting: establish defect triage processes, severity definitions, root cause collaboration, and clear status reporting to stakeholders

  • Release readiness: provide objective quality assessments and release recommendations based on evidence, risk, and trend data

  • Field and commissioning support: support factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, and targeted field issue reproduction; feed lessons learned back into test design

  • Process improvement: continuously improve test methods, test documentation, traceability, and compliance with internal processes

  • Cross-functional leadership: partner with platform engineering, controls engineering, offering management, service, and program teams to align quality priorities and customer outcomes

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Automation/Controls, or equivalent experience

  • 8+ years in test engineering / validation / quality engineering roles (controls, embedded, industrial automation, or similar)

  • 3+ years leading teams or leading test programs with broad cross-functional visibility

  • Demonstrated experience with automation (scripting, frameworks, CI integration, or lab automation)

  • Strong troubleshooting skills across firmware/software, controls logic, networking/communications, and electromechanical systems

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with thermal systems and controls (hydronic plants, liquid cooling, Cooling Distribution Unit systems, secondary loops)

  • Experience with industrial protocols and integrations (for example, Modbus TCP, BACnet, MQTT)

  • Experience with factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, commissioning, or field troubleshooting

  • Experience validating full-stack solutions: firmware/controls, user interface/human-machine interface, and system integration behaviors

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