Quality Engineering Manager

About the role

American Innovations protects people and the environment by providing proven compliance solutions to oil and gas professionals from the field to the office. The Quality Engineering Manager is responsible for defining and executing the company's quality engineering strategy across software, hardware-integrated, cloud, and mobile products.

Responsibilities

The Quality Engineering Manager leads the transition from traditional quality assurance to modern quality engineering by driving automation, continuous integration, AI-assisted testing, and system-level quality practices. This leader establishes testing standards, owns quality metrics, drives continuous improvement initiatives, and ensures products are released with confidence and predictability.

• Define and execute the enterprise test automation strategy across all product lines.
• Establish automation priorities across unit, integration, API, end-to-end, mobile, and hardware-in-the-loop testing layers.
• Build, maintain, and improve scalable test automation frameworks and automated regression suites.
• Own quality metrics including automation coverage, defect density, defect escape rate, and field quality trends.
• Lead release readiness assessments and quality go/no-go recommendations.

Continuous Integration & Quality Gates

Own quality-related CI pipeline configuration and automated testing execution. Define and enforce quality gates including code coverage thresholds, automated test pass rates, static analysis requirements, and performance benchmarks.

• Partner with Software Development and DevOps teams to integrate testing into the development workflow.
• Monitor and improve CI pipeline performance, reliability, and feedback cycles.
• Reduce flaky tests and improve automation stability through continuous optimization.

Leadership & Team Development

Lead, mentor, and develop Quality Engineers and Test Engineers. Conduct performance reviews, coaching conversations, career development planning, and succession planning.

• Foster a culture of quality ownership across Engineering.
• Partner with Development Managers to improve testability, coverage, and quality practices.
• Coordinate testing efforts across multiple products and development teams.

System Integration & Hardware Validation

Define and maintain system integration testing strategies across interconnected products. Coordinate integration testing activities across multiple engineering teams.

• Ensure coverage of product interactions involving BLE, cellular, satellite, cloud, mobile, and IoT technologies.
• Own test lab environments, hardware test rigs, and provisioning processes.
• Drive resolution of cross-product integration issues and interoperability defects.

AI-Driven Quality & Continuous Improvement

Champion the adoption of AI-assisted testing tools and practices. Implement AI-driven approaches for test generation, intelligent test selection, defect prediction, automated triage, and self-healing automation.

• Measure and report the impact of AI adoption on testing efficiency, quality, and delivery metrics.
• Lead quality retrospectives and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Establish quality KPIs and regularly communicate progress to leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.

• 8+ years of experience in software quality engineering, test automation, software development, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience leading Quality Engineering, Test Engineering, or Software Quality teams.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining automated testing frameworks from the ground up.
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, or similar technologies.

Skills

Strong understanding of modern software development lifecycle practices. Deep knowledge of test automation architecture and quality engineering methodologies.

• Experience with Agile development environments and CI/CD workflows.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership abilities.

Qualifications

Preferred qualifications include experience testing products that integrate hardware and software components, coordinating system integration testing across multiple product teams, and managing test laboratories, hardware test rigs, and testing environments.

• Demonstrated track record of improving automation coverage and reducing defect escape rates.
• Experience within regulated industries or products supporting safety, compliance, or critical infrastructure.
• ISTQB, CSTE, or equivalent quality engineering certification.