Test Manager

American IT Systems; Lewisville (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

American IT Systems is seeking a Test Manager to lead connected automotive validation and software quality initiatives. You will drive test strategy, governance, and cross-functional collaboration across vehicle, cloud, and mobile platforms.

The role emphasizes automation roadmaps, CI/CD integration, and strong leadership of onsite/offshore teams to ensure release-readiness and high-quality delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software quality programs for automotive or connected devices.
• Experience implementing test governance, KPIs, and release-readiness criteria.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Lead validation of connected vehicle platforms, telematics systems, OTA updates, remote diagnostics, fleet solutions, mobile apps, and cloud services.
• Coordinate testing across vehicle, edge, mobile, API, cloud, and back-office components.
• Manage end-to-end testing lifecycle from requirements analysis to production deployment and post-release validation.
• Oversee functional, integration, system, regression, end-to-end, performance, security, and UAT testing.
• Drive defect triage, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and defect-leakage reduction.
• Maintain test plans, traceability matrices, quality dashboards, risk logs, and release recommendations.
• 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.
• Present quality status, risks, dependencies, and release recommendations in governance and executive reviews.

Skills

Test management

Quality engineering

Automation strategy

DevOps collaboration

Leadership

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

ALM / Quality Center

Selenium

Appium

Postman

ReadyAPI

JMeter

Robot Framework

Job description

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

Core Keywords Connected Vehicle | SDV | OTA | Telematics | Automotive Cloud | Test Automation | CAN | J1939 | UDS | Quality Engineering