LabKey provides data management solutions to help researchers tackle some of today’s most challenging problems. At LabKey you'll work in a dynamic, hands-on environment with real ownership, autonomy, and direct impact on the products we deliver to our customers.
We are seeking a hands-on Test Engineering Manager with a demonstrated commitment to quality and the ability to lead while contributing directly to day-to-day work. This is a true player-coach role where you will mentor and develop others while staying deeply involved in the test engineering work.
The right candidate is a leader who places high value on quality, contributes directly to the team's daily work and would rather build than delegate. Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, you will manage a strong team of two test engineers while remaining an active contributor.
You’ll lead the test strategy, deciding what and how we test across our SaaS and on-premise products, help shape forward-looking technical solutions, and work closely with engineering and other teams to ensure alignment on priorities, strategy, and roadmaps.
Most of your time will go to hands-on test engineering: designing and writing automated tests, digging into failures, and building forward-looking solutions that make our testing faster, more comprehensive, and more trustworthy. Test Strategy and Implementation
Provide actionable assessments of overall product quality to other teams.
Craft test cases from requirements to ensure coverage across functional, regression, integration, and non-functional testing.
Trace defects end-to-end from UI to persistence to verify data flow accuracy and system integrity, creating clear, reproducible bug reports.
Design, execute, and interpret load, stress, and soak tests against realistic data volumes.
Guide how testing fits into the wider engineering pipeline, maintaining and improving continuous testing and fast, trustworthy feedback.
Evaluate and adopt testing tools and libraries pragmatically, favoring well-established options over bespoke frameworks.
Validate products meet regulatory, contractual, and policy-driven security requirements.
Build and maintain test coverage for authentication, authorization, and data segregation, particularly where PHI and other regulated data are involved.
Support audit and customer security review processes with evidence, documentation, and reproducible results.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, information technology, computer science, software engineering, or similar.
Ten years testing in a team environment, delivering solutions to customers.
Two years mentoring engineers, providing technical leadership, or managing engineering teams.
Ten years designing and maintaining automated tests using established frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress.
Five years applying object-oriented programming principles to maintainable test design; comfort reading and writing Java.
Five years testing API-driven web applications.
Expertise adopting and leveraging LLM-based testing approaches, including product code analysis, automation code generation, and internal productivity tools.
Proficiency writing SQL against relational databases, ideally Postgres, to verify data correctness.
Understanding of performance and scalability testing.
Accessibility conformance testing against WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508.
Testing for concurrency defects, including race conditions, deadlocks, and transaction isolation issues.
Familiarity with AWS and production telemetry and monitoring.
Experience in scientific, clinical, or research software environments.
Experience testing software subject to regulatory or contractual security requirements such as SOC 2, FISMA, HIPAA, or ISO 27001.
Excellent health, dental, and vision coverage
~ Retirement planning - 401(k) with immediate vesting
~Bonus opportunity
~ Stock option grants
~ Short and Long-Term Disability
~ Life Insurance
~ All qualified applicants receive consideration, and all decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. If you require assistance, or an alternative method for application and/or screening for an open position due to a disability please submit a request directly to LabKey.
We are seeking a hands-on Test Engineering Manager with a demonstrated commitment to quality and the ability to lead while contributing directly to day-to-day work. This is a true player-coach role where you will mentor and develop others while staying deeply involved in the test engineering work.
The right candidate is a leader who places high value on quality, contributes directly to the team's daily work and would rather build than delegate. Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, you will manage a strong team of two test engineers while remaining an active contributor.
You’ll lead the test strategy, deciding what and how we test across our SaaS and on-premise products, help shape forward-looking technical solutions, and work closely with engineering and other teams to ensure alignment on priorities, strategy, and roadmaps.
Most of your time will go to hands-on test engineering: designing and writing automated tests, digging into failures, and building forward-looking solutions that make our testing faster, more comprehensive, and more trustworthy. Test Strategy and Implementation
Provide actionable assessments of overall product quality to other teams.
Craft test cases from requirements to ensure coverage across functional, regression, integration, and non-functional testing.
Trace defects end-to-end from UI to persistence to verify data flow accuracy and system integrity, creating clear, reproducible bug reports.
Design, execute, and interpret load, stress, and soak tests against realistic data volumes.
Guide how testing fits into the wider engineering pipeline, maintaining and improving continuous testing and fast, trustworthy feedback.
Evaluate and adopt testing tools and libraries pragmatically, favoring well-established options over bespoke frameworks.
Validate products meet regulatory, contractual, and policy-driven security requirements.
Build and maintain test coverage for authentication, authorization, and data segregation, particularly where PHI and other regulated data are involved.
Support audit and customer security review processes with evidence, documentation, and reproducible results.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, information technology, computer science, software engineering, or similar.
Ten years testing in a team environment, delivering solutions to customers.
Two years mentoring engineers, providing technical leadership, or managing engineering teams.
Ten years designing and maintaining automated tests using established frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress.
Five years applying object-oriented programming principles to maintainable test design; comfort reading and writing Java.
Five years testing API-driven web applications.
Expertise adopting and leveraging LLM-based testing approaches, including product code analysis, automation code generation, and internal productivity tools.
Proficiency writing SQL against relational databases, ideally Postgres, to verify data correctness.
Understanding of performance and scalability testing.
Accessibility conformance testing against WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508.
Testing for concurrency defects, including race conditions, deadlocks, and transaction isolation issues.
Familiarity with AWS and production telemetry and monitoring.
Experience in scientific, clinical, or research software environments.
Experience testing software subject to regulatory or contractual security requirements such as SOC 2, FISMA, HIPAA, or ISO 27001.
Excellent health, dental, and vision coverage
~ Retirement planning - 401(k) with immediate vesting
~Bonus opportunity
~ Stock option grants
~ Short and Long-Term Disability
~ Life Insurance
~ All qualified applicants receive consideration, and all decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. If you require assistance, or an alternative method for application and/or screening for an open position due to a disability please submit a request directly to LabKey.
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