Automation-Driven Quality Engineering Manager

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS); Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) in Richmond, VA is seeking a Quality Engineering Manager to lead a team of quality engineers and drive an automation-first quality strategy across UI, API, and data layers. You will mentor engineers, set testing standards, and ensure release readiness and compliance.

The role emphasizes improving testability, aligning with HIPAA and federal contract requirements, and collaborating with DevOps, Security, Product, and Architecture to deliver high-quality

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience in quality engineering, software testing, or software engineering, including 3+ years building or maintaining modern test automation.
• 2+ years of people management experience leading technical teams; 5+ years preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team in delivering across the department scope, providing technical direction, exercising sound technical judgment, and contributing directly to quality engineering work where it has the greatest impact.
• Cultivate an automation-first culture where coverage is automated at the appropriate test layer and manual testing exceptions are deliberate, documented, and risk-based.
• Apply working proficiency with the department's tooling to review code and pull requests, debug tests, query databases, exercise APIs, and unblock engineers.
• Execute within the architecture, standards, and shared tooling owned by the Principal Quality Engineer, escalating systemic or platform-level issues.
• Review quality strategies and coverage for high-risk features and releases, ensuring dependencies and residual risk are understood before release decisions are made.
• Direct performance and load testing, establishing baselines, testing high-risk releases, and partnering with Software Engineering and Enterprise Technology to resolve issues.
• Keep regression suites reliable and efficient, and lead resolution of moderately complex test failures and escaped defects using pipeline results, logs, telemetry, and database evidence.
• Drive responsible use of AI-assisted testing tools and establish quality practices for AI-enabled features, including evaluation criteria, testing of non-deterministic output, and regression testing when models or prompts change.
• Partner with Software Engineering, Product, Architecture, DevOps, and PMO to shift quality earlier in delivery, improve testability, and resolve dependencies.

Skills

Automation testing

C#/.NET

Playwright

BDD with Gherkin

SQL validation

Performance testing

Azure DevOps

Test strategy

Regulatory compliance

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

AZ-900 certification

ISTQB CTFL/CTAL-TM certification

Tools

Azure DevOps

Postman

JMeter

Grafana

Azure Monitor

Job description

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) in Richmond, VA is seeking a Quality Engineering Manager to lead a team of quality engineers and drive an automation-first quality strategy across UI, API, and data layers. You will mentor engineers, set testing standards, and ensure release readiness and compliance.

The role emphasizes improving testability, aligning with HIPAA and federal contract requirements, and collaborating with DevOps, Security, Product, and Architecture to deliver high-quality