IoT Validation & Test Engineering Manager

AgileEngine, LLC.; Blacksburg (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive compensation

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine, LLC. is seeking a Test Engineering Manager to lead validation across IoT and computer vision products. You will oversee a cross-functional team responsible for end-to-end testing from hardware to cloud, ensuring quality and readiness for deployment.

The role requires strong leadership, hands-on validation expertise, and the ability to translate complex findings into clear risk recommendations within a fast-paced, globally distributed environment. Hybrid work options are available.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in product validation, systems engineering, integration testing, quality engineering, or product development.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and complex cross-functional validation programs.
• Experience validating complex connected products.
• Strong understanding of system-level integration, reliability, regression, performance, and field validation.
• Experience defining validation strategies, test plans, release criteria, and measurable acceptance metrics.
• Embedded systems testing: hardware–firmware integration, device functionality, interfaces, and system-level performance.
• Test automation: developing automated testing frameworks to improve coverage, repeatability, efficiency, and regression testing.
• Experience with IoT, edge devices, computer vision, retail technology, or large-scale connected-device deployments is highly desirable.
• Ability to lead, coach, mentor, and develop engineers while setting priorities and accountability.
• Translate complex technical findings into clear product and business risk recommendations.
• Strong collaboration and problem-solving in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment.
• Upper-intermediate English level.
• Hybrid availability in Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing Test & Validation team, building technical capability, system-level thinking, ownership, and accountability.
• End-to-End Validation: Own product validation across hardware, firmware, software, cloud, connectivity, and customer workflows.
• Validation Strategy: Define validation plans, test coverage, integration checkpoints, performance targets, and release criteria.
• System Integration Testing: Ensure complete system testing across device onboarding, telemetry, connectivity, data flow, performance, customer workflows, regression, and recovery scenarios.
• Performance & Reliability: Monitor and evaluate product performance against defined quality, reliability, and business-critical metrics, identifying trends and areas for improvement.
• Troubleshooting & Risk Management: Identify integration gaps, dependencies, and failure modes early and drive structured root-cause analysis across R&D, Product, Manufacturing, Field, and customer-facing teams.
• Readiness Reporting: Own validation dashboards and executive reports showing test progress, defects, performance trends, risks, and launch readiness.
• Launch Readiness: Lead final validation reviews and provide Go / Conditional Go / No-Go decisions for pilot, deployment, and scale readiness.

Skills

Validation leadership

Embedded systems testing

Test automation

Root-cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

English proficiency

Hybrid work availability

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in a technical field

Tools

Automation frameworks

IoT validation tools

Job description

AgileEngine, LLC. is seeking a Test Engineering Manager to lead validation across IoT and computer vision products. You will oversee a cross-functional team responsible for end-to-end testing from hardware to cloud, ensuring quality and readiness for deployment.

The role requires strong leadership, hands-on validation expertise, and the ability to translate complex findings into clear risk recommendations within a fast-paced, globally distributed environment. Hybrid work options are available.