Test Manager

Job Title: Test Manager

Location: Lewisville TX.

Onsite/ Remote: Day 1 Onsite at customer location

Key Responsibilities

Test Strategy and Governance

Define and implement program-level test strategies, quality standards, KPIs, and release-readiness criteria.

Own test planning, estimation, resource allocation, execution governance, and quality reporting.

Establish traceability from requirements through test coverage, defects, and acceptance.

Ensure alignment with customer processes and applicable automotive quality practices.

Connected Vehicle Validation

Lead validation of connected vehicle platforms, telematics systems, SDV capabilities, OTA updates, remote diagnostics, fleet solutions, mobile applications, vehicle data platforms, and cloud services.

Coordinate vehicle, edge, mobile, API, cloud, and back-office testing across integrated releases.

Validate service continuity, data accuracy, interoperability, error handling, and production readiness.

Test Delivery Management

Manage the testing lifecycle from requirements analysis through production deployment and post-release validation.

Oversee functional, integration, system, regression, end-to-end, performance, security, and UAT activities.

Drive defect triage, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and defect-leakage reduction.

Maintain test plans, traceability matrices, quality dashboards, risk logs, and release recommendations.

Automation and DevOps

Define automation and continuous-testing roadmaps across UI, API, mobile, cloud, and embedded interfaces.

Integrate automated validation into CI/CD pipelines and promote shift-left quality engineering.

Track automation effectiveness, execution stability, reusable assets, and maintenance needs.

Stakeholder and Team Leadership

Act as the primary quality contact for customer, product, program, architecture, development, and DevOps stakeholders.

Lead onsite-offshore test teams and mentor Test Leads, Automation Architects, and Test Engineers.

Present quality status, risks, dependencies, and release recommendations in governance and executive reviews.

Support solutioning, estimations, proposals, audits, capability building, and continuous improvement.

Required Technical Competencies Connected Automotive

Connected vehicles, telematics, SDV, OTA, remote diagnostics, fleet management, vehicle connectivity, automotive IoT, and vehicle data analytics. Test Manager - Connected Automotive Engineering

Automotive Protocols and Diagnostics CAN / CAN FD, LIN, Automotive Ethernet, J1939, UDS, DoIP, MQTT, DTC analysis, and diagnostic workflows.

Cloud, API, and DevOps Microsoft Azure, AWS or GCP; microservices; REST APIs; Docker; Kubernetes; and CI/CD pipelines.

Tools Jira, Azure DevOps, ALM / Quality Center, Selenium, Appium, Postman, ReadyAPI, JMeter, and Robot Framework or equivalent tools.

Testing Expertise

Functional, system, integration, end-to-end, regression, API, mobile, cloud, OTA, vehicle connectivity, performance, security, automation, and user acceptance testing. Automotive Domain Knowledge

Automotive E/E architecture and connected-services ecosystems.

Telematics architecture, vehicle diagnostics, and commercial or passenger vehicle platforms.

Fleet operations, mobility solutions, predictive maintenance, automotive cybersecurity, and digital engineering.

Key Performance Indicators

Release quality and on-time delivery

Defect leakage and production defect reduction

Requirement and test coverage

Automation coverage and execution reliability

Test efficiency and productivity

Risk closure and compliance

Customer satisfaction and stakeholder confidence