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# Manager Software Test Automation at Veracyte

- **Company:** Veracyte
- **Location:** San Diego California, United States / South San Francisco California, United States
- **Compensation:** $147k–$163k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://veracyte.com/job-detail?gh_jid=5189588007

## Job description

At Veracyte, we offer exciting career opportunities for those interested in joining a pioneering team that is committed to transforming cancer care for patients across the globe. Working at Veracyte enables our employees to not only make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients, but to also learn and grow within a purpose driven environment. This is what we call the Veracyte way – it’s about how we work together, guided by our values, to give clinicians the insights they need to help patients make life-changing decisions.

Our Values:

- We Seek A Better Way: We pursue bold ideas, embrace complexity, and keep pushing forward.
- We Make It Happen: We act with urgency, deliver with excellence, and always find a way.
- We Are Stronger Together: We engage with empathy, align around what's best for Veracyte, and celebrate as one team.
- We Care Deeply: We show up with integrity, kindness, and respect for one another.

The Position:

Veracyte is seeking an experienced Manager, Software Test Automation, to lead our Quality Engineering Platform team. This team's mission is to enable every product engineering team to own software quality by providing scalable automation frameworks, self-service testing platforms, AI-assisted quality tools, and engineering best practices that accelerate software delivery while improving reliability, security, and compliance.

Rather than functioning as a traditional QA organization, the Quality Engineering Platform team partners with Software Engineering, Product Management, CloudOps, Data & AI, Laboratory Operations, and DevOps to build quality into every stage of the software development lifecycle. The team develops reusable automation platforms, testing infrastructure, quality metrics, and AI-enabled engineering capabilities that allow product teams to continuously validate cloud-native applications, APIs, enterprise integrations, laboratory workflows, and AI-powered solutions.

As the Manager, Software Test Automation you will define Veracyte's quality engineering strategy, establish modern engineering practices, and lead a team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs), Automation Engineers, and Quality Platform Engineers responsible for enabling engineering excellence across the organization.

The ideal candidate is a technical leader passionate about developer productivity, platform engineering, intelligent automation, and building a culture where quality is owned by every engineering team. This is a hybrid role in San Diego, CA

Key Responsibilities:

Engineering Leadership

- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing Quality Engineering Platform team.
- Define and execute the long-term strategy for quality engineering, automation, and developer enablement.
- Build an engineering culture focused on innovation, continuous improvement, ownership, and operational excellence.
- Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineering talent while fostering career growth and technical leadership.

Quality Engineering Platform

- Build and evolve self-service quality engineering platforms that enable product teams to independently validate their software.
- Develop scalable automation frameworks supporting unit, integration, API, UI, end-to-end, regression, performance, security, and compliance testing.
- Create reusable testing libraries, tooling, templates, and CI/CD integrations that standardize quality practices across engineering.
- Define quality engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practices adopted across development teams.
- Enable continuous verification through automated quality gates, production validation, synthetic monitoring, and release health checks.

AI-Enabled Quality Engineering

- Define Veracyte's strategy for leveraging AI throughout the software testing lifecycle.
- Build AI-assisted capabilities for automated test generation, regression analysis, defect classification, release risk assessment, test maintenance, and synthetic test data creation.
- Partner with Data & AI teams to develop validation strategies for AI-powered products, including LLM evaluation, prompt regression testing, model monitoring, and human-in-the-loop verification.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies that improve engineering productivity and software quality.

Developer Enablement

- Partner with Software Engineering teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle using shift-left and shift-right engineering practices.
- Coach engineering teams on automation strategies, testing best practices, and quality ownership.
- Provide consulting, tooling, and technical guidance that enables product teams to deliver software with confidence.
- Partner with DevOps and CloudOps to integrate quality engineering into modern CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native delivery platforms.

Operational Excellence

- Establish engineering metrics that measure software quality, automation effectiveness, developer productivity, release confidence, platform adoption, and customer impact.
- Drive observability, defect prevention, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure software validation activities support regulatory requirements applicable to healthcare diagnostics, including HIPAA, CAP/CLIA, and FDA software quality expectations where appropriate.

Who You Are:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 6 – 7 years of software engineering, quality engineering, or software development experience.
- 3+ years leading Quality Engineering, Test Engineering, SDET, or Developer Platform engineering teams.
- Proven experience building engineering platforms that improve software quality and developer productivity.
- Strong background developing automated testing frameworks for cloud-native applications and distributed systems.
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience building internal developer platforms, engineering tooling, or self-service engineering capabilities.
- Strong understanding of AWS cloud technologies, APIs, distributed systems, and modern software architecture.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, organizational, and people leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in healthcare, diagnostics, laboratory information systems (LIS/LIMS), molecular diagnostics, or regulated medical software.
- Experience validating healthcare interoperability standards including HL7, FHIR, X12, and related healthcare transactions.
- Experience testing AI-enabled products, machine learning systems, or generative AI applications.
- Experience using AI-assisted development and testing tools to improve engineering productivity.
- Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST Assured, Karate, Postman, JUnit, TestNG, or similar automation technologies.
- Experience building automation using Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or C#.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native platforms.
- Experience implementing performance engineering, security testing, chaos engineering, or site reliability engineering practices.
- Experience working within regulated environments including HIPAA, FDA, CAP/CLIA, ISO 13485, or SOC 2.
- AWS certifications or software testing certifications are a plus.
- Experience leading distributed engineering organizations.

#LI-Hybrid   #LI-Remote

The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience, skillset, geographic location, industry, education, etc. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Pay range $147,000—$163,000 USD

## What We Can Offer You

Veracyte is a growing company that offers significant career opportunities if you are curious, driven, patient-oriented and aspire to help us build a great company. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, and are committed to fostering an inclusive workforce, where diverse backgrounds are represented, engaged, and empowered to drive innovative ideas and decisions. We are thrilled to be recognized as a 2024 Certified™ Great Place to Work® in both the US and Israel - a testament to our dynamic, inclusive, and inspiring workplace where passion meets purpose.

## About Veracyte

Veracyte (Nasdaq: VCYT) is a global diagnostics company whose vision is to transform cancer care for patients all over the world. We empower clinicians with the high-value insights they need to guide and assure patients at pivotal moments in the race to diagnose and treat cancer. Our Veracyte Diagnostics Platform delivers high-performing cancer tests that are fueled by broad genomic and clinical data, deep bioinformatic and AI capabilities, and a powerful evidence-generation engine, which ultimately drives durable reimbursement and guideline inclusion for our tests, along with new insights to support continued innovation and pipeline development. For more information, please visit [www.veracyte.com](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.veracyte.com%2F&esheet=54340020&newsitemid=20251015446872&lan=en-US&anchor=www.veracyte.com&index=5&md5=4d48386b00ece1531372e2e593d7cd2d) or follow us on [LinkedIn](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fveracyte%2F&esheet=54340020&newsitemid=20251015446872&lan=en-US&anchor=LinkedIn&index=6&md5=234cba826cb637f449d2722139f551ef) or https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fveracyte%3Fs%3D11&esheet=54340020&newsitemid=20251015446872&lan=en-US&anchor=X+%28Twitter%29&index=7&md5=20ead95735af622bf261b20735515b66.

Veracyte, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status. Veracyte participates in E-Verify in the United States. View our [CCPA Disclosure Notice](https://www.veracyte.com/legal/privacy-statement-for-california-residents/)

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## About Veracyte

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Veracyte is a global cancer diagnostics company that develops molecular tests to help clinicians make more informed care decisions by analyzing the unique biology of each patient’s tumor.
- **Entity Type**: Public (traded on NASDAQ; ticker not explicitly confirmed in provided sources)
- **Headquarters**: South San Francisco, California, United States (with additional high-complexity clinical labs in San Diego, California, and Austin, Texas)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available in provided sources
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cancer diagnostics / molecular genomics / precision oncology
- **Target customers**: B2B – clinicians, hospitals, health systems, and laboratory service providers; B2C indirectly through patient care decisions
- **Mission statement**: “Transform cancer care for patients all over the world” (from about page)

## Products & Services
- **Afirma Genomic Sequencing Classifier**: A test for thyroid nodules to help avoid unnecessary surgery (SaaS/Service)
- **Decipher Prostate Genomic Classifier**: The only gene expression test included in the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines for prostate cancer (Service)
- **Decipher Bladder Genomic Classifier**: A test for bladder cancer to guide treatment decisions (Service)
- **Prosigna Breast Risk of Recurrence (ROR) Test**: Recently launched commercially in the U.S. (June 2026) to identify high-risk breast cancer patients who may safely avoid chemotherapy (Service)
- **TrueMRD Monitoring Test for MIBC**: Minimal residual disease monitoring for muscle-invasive bladder cancer; secured Medicare coverage in May 2026 (Service)
- **Provider Ordering Portal**: Digital platform for clinicians to order Veracyte tests (SaaS)
- **Scientific Publications & Evidence Engine**: AI-assisted data mining, multimodality analysis, and bioinformatics to support ongoing test development (R&D platform)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in provided sources (public company; financial specifics not included in searched materials)
- **Key Metric**: Over 900,000 patients have benefited from Veracyte’s genomic tests across multiple cancer types; more than 600 peer-reviewed publications validate the platform’s clinical utility
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: NCCN (Decipher Prostate included in guidelines); collaborators on landmark OPTIMA trial (Prosigna); Medicare (coverage for TrueMRD)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Commercial launch of Prosigna in the U.S. (June 2026)
  - Medicare coverage for TrueMRD monitoring test (May 2026)
  - Three high-complexity clinical labs operating in San Diego, South San Francisco, and Austin
  - Headcount of over 800 team members serving clinicians and patients globally
  - Landmark OPTIMA trial results published, demonstrating Prosigna’s ability to identify patients who can safely avoid chemotherapy

## Competitive Advantages
- **Evidence depth**: Only gene expression test included in NCCN Guidelines for prostate cancer; >600 peer-reviewed publications
- **Multi-cancer portfolio**: Covers thyroid, prostate, breast, bladder, and lung cancer, offering a comprehensive platform for oncology decision-making
- **Regulatory & reimbursement momentum**: Recent Medicare coverage for TrueMRD and U.S. commercial launch of Prosigna demonstrate market adoption
- **Integrated platform**: Combines genomics, transcriptomics, real-world data, and AI-driven analysis to continuously generate evidence and refine tests

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic and product expansion**: Commercializing the Prosigna test in the U.S. and expanding reimbursement for monitoring tests like TrueMRD
- **Real-world evidence generation**: Using their evidence engine (AI, multimodal analysis, bioinformatics) to support new indications and clinical utility
- **Platform scalability**: Building a robust diagnostics platform that can be applied to additional cancer types and clinical questions
- **Clinical trial partnerships**: Leveraging studies like OPTIMA to validate clinical value and drive guideline inclusion

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven (“We care deeply,” “We seek a better way,” “We make it happen,” “We are stronger together”); recognized as a Great Place to Work® and listed on Forbes Mid-Cap list
- **Work model**: Hybrid/remote options available; positions in labs, offices, field locations, and remote work (as seen on careers page)
- **Benefits** (U.S. examples): Medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid time off, parental leave, 401(k) with employer match, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, Calm app subscription, gym reimbursement, and family care support
- **Mission-driven**: Opportunity to directly impact cancer patients’ lives by developing and delivering diagnostic tests that provide clearer answers for clinicians
- **Growth opportunities**: Roles span research, clinical development, bioinformatics, lab services, regulatory affairs, data engineering, and more

## Sources
1. [Veracyte Home Page](https://www.veracyte.com/)
2. [Veracyte About Page](https://www.veracyte.com/company/about-veracyte/)
3. [Veracyte Careers Page](https://www.veracyte.com/company/careers/)
4. [Veracyte Working at Veracyte Page](https://www.veracyte.com/company/working-at-veracyte/)
5. [Veracyte LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/veracyte)

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