Senior System Testing Manager

Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) is Microsoft's Android-based platform that enables partners to build secure, enterprise-grade devices and experiences across Collaboration, IoT, Digital Signage, and emerging Agent-First device categories. MDEP provides a common platform foundation that accelerates innovation while ensuring consistency, security, and scalability across a diverse ecosystem of devices and partners.  

System Testing and Automation are fundamental to ensuring the quality, reliability, security, and release readiness of MDEP. By driving end-to-end validation strategies and scalable test automation, the team enables rapid delivery of high-quality platform releases while maintaining confidence across partner integrations, device configurations, and evolving platform capabilities.  

We are looking for a Senior System Testing Manager for the MDEP team. If you are passionate about solving complex engineering challenges, leading high-performing teams, shaping strategy, and delivering production-quality software at scale, we'd love to hear from you and explore how you can join the MDEP Romania Team and help shape the future of MDEP with us.

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• Lead the MDEP system testing team, ensuring clear priorities, solid execution, and continuous progress on automation coverage and infrastructure.
• Own the automation framework and drive innovation, scaling, and key technical decisions aligned with MDEP priorities. 
• Design and maintain a stable scalable automation software architecture across multiple Android versions, device types, and release branches. 
• Drive clear, measurable OKRs across both automation and manual testing to improve quality, coverage, and release readiness. 
• Manage vendor team supporting with the deliverables of MDEP releases & OKRs. 
• Work closely with feature development teams to ensure new scenarios are testable and included in E2E automation early. 
• Introduce AI-driven solutions to optimize test creation, execution, result analysis, and bug reporting while maintaining solid human oversight.
• Build automation pipelines and improve hardware usage and execution reliability across large-scale system testing device labs. 
• Mentor automation engineers and ensure a steady pipeline of automation work, including new test coverage and technical improvements. 
• Review PRs, define coding and testing guidelines, and enforce a high-quality bar with low test flakiness. 
• Drive process improvements that reduce costs, increase visibility, and scale automation across all active branches and form factors. 
• Define system testing timeline plan aligned with MDEP release schedule and ensure consistent & reliable automation results for all major and sustaining MDEP releases. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding
  • OR equivalent industry experience in software engineering, system testing, or quality engineering.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams responsible for software quality, validation, test automation, or large-scale system testing in a complex product environment.
• Technical expertise in embedded software development, test architecture, automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and quality engineering at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to define and execute quality strategies that improve product reliability, release readiness, scalability, and customer satisfaction across multiple product components or services.
• Experience driving engineering execution through data-driven goals, metrics, and OKRs, with a track record of improving quality, efficiency, and operational excellence.
• Leadership skills, including talent development, coaching, performance management, organizational planning, and building high-performing engineering teams.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate across engineering, product, program management, security, partner, and executive stakeholders to drive alignment and business impact.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with Appium and Android automation.
• Deep understanding of Android OS, apps, and system-level testing.
• Experience building and scaling automation on physical hardware setups.
• Proven ability to design and evolve large automation frameworks.
• Debugging skills across devices, apps, OS, and infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI-assisted tools and techniques to accelerate test creation, test execution, defect analysis, and quality engineering activities.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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Software Engineering M4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Romania is lei 263,600.00 - lei 434,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/romania-corporate-pay.html

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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