Manager Software Test Automation

At Veracyte , we offer exciting career opportunities for those interested in joining a pioneering team that is committed to transforming cancer care for patients across the globe. Working at Veracyte enables our employees to not only make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients, but to also learn and grow within a purpose driven environment. This is what we call the Veracyte way – it’s about how we work together, guided by our values, to give clinicians the insights they need to help patients make life-changing decisions. Our Values: • We Seek A Better Way : We pursue bold ideas, embrace complexity, and keep pushing forward. • We Make It Happen : We act with urgency, deliver with excellence, and always find a way. • We Are Stronger Together : We engage with empathy, align around what's best for Veracyte, and celebrate as one team. • We Care Deeply : We show up with integrity, kindness, and respect for one another. The Position: Veracyte is seeking an experienced Manager, Software Test Automation, to lead our Quality Engineering Platform team. This team's mission is to enable every product engineering team to own software quality by providing scalable automation frameworks, self-service testing platforms, AI-assisted quality tools, and engineering best practices that accelerate software delivery while improving reliability, security, and compliance. Rather than functioning as a traditional QA organization, the Quality Engineering Platform team partners with Software Engineering, Product Management, CloudOps, Data & AI, Laboratory Operations, and DevOps to build quality into every stage of the software development lifecycle. The team develops reusable automation platforms, testing infrastructure, quality metrics, and AI-enabled engineering capabilities that allow product teams to continuously validate cloud-native applications, APIs, enterprise integrations, laboratory workflows, and AI-powered solutions. As the Manager, Software Test Automation you will define Veracyte's quality engineering strategy, establish modern engineering practices, and lead a team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs), Automation Engineers, and Quality Platform Engineers responsible for enabling engineering excellence across the organization. The ideal candidate is a technical leader passionate about developer productivity, platform engineering, intelligent automation, and building a culture where quality is owned by every engineering team. This is a hybrid role in San Diego, CA Key Responsibilities: Engineering Leadership • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing Quality Engineering Platform team. • Define and execute the long-term strategy for quality engineering, automation, and developer enablement. • Build an engineering culture focused on innovation, continuous improvement, ownership, and operational excellence. • Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineering talent while fostering career growth and technical leadership. Quality Engineering Platform • Build and evolve self-service quality engineering platforms that enable product teams to independently validate their software. • Develop scalable automation frameworks supporting unit, integration, API, UI, end-to-end, regression, performance, security, and compliance testing. • Create reusable testing libraries, tooling, templates, and CI/CD integrations that standardize quality practices across engineering. • Define quality engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practices adopted across development teams. • Enable continuous verification through automated quality gates, production validation, synthetic monitoring, and release health checks. AI-Enabled Quality Engineering • Define Veracyte's strategy for leveraging AI throughout the sof