What We Do
What You Will Do
Forescout is growing fast and is seeking a dynamic, results-oriented Engineering Manager for Test Automation (SDET) to lead and grow our automation-first quality engineering team. This is a builder’s role: you will own test automation across our products today and steer the team toward an AI- and agent-assisted future, where generative AI and intelligent agents help author, maintain, and optimize tests as part of the framework itself.- Lead, coach, and grow a team of SDETs and QA engineers responsible for test automation across Forescout product lines — owning delivery accountability, people development, and team culture.
- Define and drive an automation-first quality strategy: design, scale, and maintain robust, reusable test automation frameworks integrated directly into CI/CD pipelines.
- Stand up and evolve an AI/agent-assisted test-generation capability — guiding the team toward LLM and agent-driven test creation, self-healing scripts, and intelligent, risk-based test prioritization.
- Balance automation and manual testing efforts, ensuring strong coverage and quality across functional, regression, API, performance, and security testing.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and DevOps to embed quality early (shift-left) and integrate automated quality gates into the release pipeline.
- Define, track, and act on quality and automation metrics (coverage, flakiness, defect escape rate, cycle time) to drive continuous improvement.
- Hire and onboard new team members, and own performance evaluation, career development, and growth planning for the team.
- Ensure regulatory and security compliance within QA processes where applicable.
- Serve as a trusted quality partner across cross-functional teams, managing priorities and risk in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
What You Bring To Forescout
Key Skills- Excellent leadership and people management — a track record of building and growing high-performing automation or quality engineering teams.
- Strategic thinking and cross-functional collaboration.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
- Coaching, performance development, and hiring.
- Risk management and sound decision-making in fast-paced environments.
- Project management and agile methodologies.
- Curiosity and fluency around applying AI and generative AI to engineering workflows.
- Deep understanding of test automation frameworks, QA methodologies, and the SDLC, with a hands-on engineering background.
- Proficiency building automation in one or more languages (Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or C#).
- Experience with modern automation tooling (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG/JUnit, Appium) and API testing (REST Assured, Postman).
- Strong CI/CD integration experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and cloud/containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Command of code quality, defect prevention, and test metrics and reporting.
- Familiarity with compliance standards (e.g., ISO, SOC 2) in QA processes.
- Practical interest or experience applying LLMs and generative AI to software testing — prompt engineering for test generation and evaluating and validating AI-generated tests.
- Vision for building agentic frameworks, where AI agents help author and maintain tests, with the engineering rigor to keep them reliable (mutation scoring, deterministic gating, flake management).
- Understanding of how to integrate AI-assisted testing into CI/CD and measure its quality and trustworthiness.
What Forescout Offers You
- Competitive compensation and benefits – we cover 85% of employee and dependents’ benefits premiums (US only), 401K match, generous PTO policy, and much more
- Collaborative and innovative environment – make an impact on worldwide security while working on the hottest technology
- Leadership that supports and encourages professional growth and development
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