Manager, Software Engineering – Connected Applications Quality

General Motors

Manager leading a team focused on software quality and automation for connected applications at GM. Collaborating with development and product teams to enhance customer experience and software reliability.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeWarren • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and develop a team of software quality and automation engineers responsible for connected applications and adjacent experience-verification scope across multiple programs and releases.
Own quality strategy for connected application features, balancing manual validation, automation, triage, and launch-readiness activities across evolving product scope.
Drive test planning and execution for customer-facing experiences such as TCPS, Subscription Manager, MyBrand, Server Push Notifications, Passenger Controls, Quick Remote, and other connected app features.
Partner with software development teams, product managers, designers, and peer quality leaders to clarify requirements, identify gaps and overlaps, and align ownership across system-level and component-level testing.
Lead the team through issue triage, defect prioritization, and early root-cause analysis, especially when urgent software issues threaten validation timing or launch readiness.
Build and scale automation for smoke, sanity, regression, and pre-build workflows; use dashboards and data to improve visibility, coverage, and execution efficiency.
Support bench, vehicle, and test-environment readiness to ensure the team can execute validation effectively across programs and hardware configurations.
Help shape practical, scalable processes for traceability, test ownership, reporting, and cross-functional readiness reviews.
Communicate status, risks, staffing needs, and tradeoffs clearly to leadership, peers, and partner teams using concise, data-driven updates.
Foster a culture of accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement across quality engineering and automation practices.
Hire, coach, and develop employees; set expectations, provide feedback, support career growth, and strengthen the overall capability of the organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or another related technical field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of relevant engineering experience in software quality, validation, test automation, or software development.
5+ years of experience leading or managing technical teams.
Experience leading quality efforts for customer-facing software systems across development, integration, and validation environments.
Working knowledge of software test planning, defect management, automation frameworks, and release-readiness practices.
Experience collaborating across software development, product, systems, and program teams.
Demonstrated technical leadership, including the ability to understand complex systems, make sound decisions, and explain tradeoffs clearly.
Strong communication, prioritization, and organizational skills in fast-moving environments with competing demands.
Ability to lead through ambiguity, remove roadblocks, and drive alignment across multiple stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Company Vehicle for evaluation program
Participation in a vehicle evaluation program

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Hard Skills & Tools

test automationsoftware qualityvalidationdefect managementautomation frameworkstest planningregression testingroot-cause analysisdata-driven decision makingsoftware development

Soft Skills

communicationprioritizationorganizational skillstechnical leadershipcollaborationaccountabilitycontinuous improvementcoachingproblem-solvingadaptability