Engineering Project Manager

Ryzen Solutions; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Ryzen Solutions is seeking an Engineering Project Manager for an on-site contract in Austin, TX. You will coordinate day-to-day regression operations, prioritize test requests, and keep test-management data accurate.

The role requires ownership of the team's work-tracking board, scheduling, and escalation of blockers affecting coverage. Start ASAP for 6+ months with a possible extension; work hours align with West Coast Pacific Time business hours.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in QA, test operations, or release coordination.
• Experience with a defect-tracking system and a test-management tool.
• Ability to prioritize competing requests and communicate trade-offs.
• Clear written communication and detail orientation.
• Comfort following detailed procedures and escalating ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Weekly task management and prioritization.
• Own the team's work-tracking board.
• Sequence incoming test requests, set priorities, assign and track tasks.
• Make routine calls independently, order work, merge overlapping requests, reschedule, and escalate issues.
• Test-management upkeep: link test suites to tracking items and run checks for consistency.
• Workflow monitoring: ensure automation runs complete and resolve routine exceptions.

Skills

QA/test operations

Project coordination

Stakeholder communication

Prioritization

Attention to detail

Escalation management

Job description

Job Details

Our client who specializes in Consumer Electronics is searching for an Engineering Project Manager.

Location:Austin, TX Employment structure:Contract Work environment:On-site Start date:ASAP

Responsibilities: Contract Test Program Coordinator, Regression Operations Location and hours: On site, Austin, TX, 5 days a week. The role is expected to work West Coast (Pacific Time) business hours. Type / duration / rate: 6+ months with a possibility of extension

About the role

Join a quality engineering team supporting a consumer payments and wallet platform. You'll coordinate day-to-day regression operations: prioritizing and tracking the team's weekly test requests, keeping test-management data accurate, and monitoring automated workflows.

• Weekly task management and prioritization ( primary ).
• Own the team's work-tracking board.
• Sequence incoming test requests, set priorities, assign and track tasks, and keep the board accurate as scope changes.
• Make routine calls independently, such as ordering work, merging overlapping requests, and rescheduling, and **escalate** anything that affects committed coverage.
• Test-management upkeep. Link scheduled test suites to tracking items using documented rules, create release tracking hierarchies from templates, and run regular checks that the test-results platform and defect tracker agree.
• Workflow monitoring. Confirm scheduled automation completes correctly and resolve routine exceptions using a runbook.

Required qualifications

• [3+] years in QA, test operations, program or project coordination, or release quality, including ownership of a schedule or work board.
• Experience with a defect-tracking system and a test-management platform, including bulk updates and verifying changes.
• Ability to prioritize competing requests and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and clear written communication.
• Comfort following detailed procedures and escalating ambiguity.

Preferred qualifications

• [TBD] Experience using AI tooling in day-to-day work.
• Payments, identity, or mobile-platform familiarity.
• Experience with CI or automated-test infrastructure.
• Basic scripting (Python preferred).
• Experience coordinating across multiple teams.

Working style

You'll shadow a team member for the first few weeks, then take increasing ownership of the weekly plan. Clear guidelines define which decisions you make independently and which are escalated. A runbook is provided. Access to internal systems is granted after start, so please factor that into availability.