Senior Manager, Quality Engineering

About the role:

Samsara is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Test Infrastructure and Quality Engineering organization. You will lead a multidisciplinary organization of engineering managers, software engineers, and quality engineers responsible for advancing how we prevent, detect, and resolve regressions across Samsara’s Connected Operations Cloud. Your teams will combine deep quality-engineering expertise with scalable infrastructure, automation, and hands-on product validation to help engineering teams deliver reliable customer experiences.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and develop an organization of engineering managers, software engineers, and quality engineers responsible for test infrastructure, automation, and product-quality validation.
• Define the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for quality engineering and shared testing platforms across Samsara.
• Build scalable, self-service test infrastructure—including frameworks, environments, test data, device and service simulators, and CI/CD integrations—that can be adopted by engineering teams across the company.
• Establish measurable quality outcomes, including escaped-regression rates, automated coverage, test reliability, time to signal, defect-detection effectiveness, and release confidence.
• Drive a shift-left quality strategy that improves system testability and makes quality an integral part of architecture, development, code review, and continuous delivery.
• Partner with product engineering teams to identify high-risk customer journeys, close critical coverage gaps, and prevent recurring classes of regressions.
• Improve the reliability and usefulness of automated testing by reducing flaky tests, shortening feedback loops, and making failures easy to diagnose and act upon.
• Ensure Quality Engineering ICs have effective tooling and operating mechanisms for exploratory testing, complex end-to-end validation, release qualification, and regression analysis.
• Introduce intelligent and AI-assisted capabilities for test generation, failure classification, root-cause analysis, coverage identification, and quality insights.
• Build a strong technical and leadership bench by hiring, coaching, and developing inclusive, highly engaged, and high-performing teams.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as the organization scales globally.