Test and Validation Manager

Vusiongroupsa; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vusiongroupsa in Dallas, TX seeks a Test and Validation Manager to lead end-to-end validation of Retail IoT products before pilot and deployment. You will coach the Test & Validation team and partner with distributed global R&D teams to ensure products are integrated, reliable, and ready for real-world customer environments.

Responsibilities include defining validation plans, test coverage, performance targets, dashboards, and Go/No-Go decisions for pilot, deployment, and scale-up, while driving

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product validation, systems engineering, integration testing, quality engineering, or product development.
• Proven experience leading technical teams and cross-functional validation programs.
• Experience validating embedded/IoT systems, including hardware-firmware interfaces and system-level performance.
• Experience defining validation strategies, test plans, release criteria, and measurable acceptance metrics.
• Experience building or scaling test automation to improve coverage and regression testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end validation across hardware, firmware, software, cloud, connectivity, and customer workflows.
• Define validation plans, test coverage, integration checkpoints, performance targets, and release criteria.
• Build and monitor validation dashboards and executive reports on progress, defects, and risks.
• Lead final validation reviews and Go / Conditional Go / No-Go decisions for pilot, deployment, and scale.
• Coach and develop the Test & Validation team while partnering with globally distributed R&D teams.

Skills

Team leadership

Test & validation

Validation strategy

System integration testing

Performance & reliability

Troubleshooting & risk management

Readiness reporting

Go/No-Go decisions

Test automation

Data-driven decisions

Embedded systems testing

IoT validation experience

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, CS, or Systems Engineering

Job description

We are seeking a Test and Validation Manager to lead the end-to-end validation and readiness of our Retail IoT products before customer pilot, deployment, and scale-up. In this role, you will lead and coach the Test & Validation team while partnering with globally distributed R&D teams across hardware, firmware, software, cloud, connectivity, manufacturing and field operations to ensure products are integrated, reliable, and ready for real-world customer environments.

What You Will Be Doing:

• 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: Partner with global R&D teams to 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, critical defects, performance trends, open risks, and launch readiness.
• Launch Readiness: Lead final validation reviews and provide Go / Conditional Go / No-Go recommendations for pilot, deployment, and scale readiness.

Qualifications we're looking for.

Experience:

• 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.

Skills:

• 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: Experience validating embedded systems, including hardware-firmware integration, device functionality, interfaces, and system-level performance.
• Test Automation: Experience developing and implementing automated testing frameworks to improve test coverage, repeatability, efficiency, and regression testing.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across multidisciplinary systems.
• Experience with product KPIs, validation dashboards, defect trends, and data-driven readiness decisions.
• Experience with IoT, edge devices, computer vision, retail technology, or large-scale connected-device deployments is highly desirable.

Abilities:

• Ability to lead, coach, mentor, and develop engineers while setting clear priorities and accountability.
• Ability to translate complex technical findings into clear product and business risk recommendations.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment.

Education:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building or scaling test automation and continuous validation frameworks.
• Experience with embedded/IoT systems, cloud platforms, networking, telemetry, and OTA workflows.
• Experience supporting customer pilots, field deployments, manufacturing validation, or large-scale product launches.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.