QA and Release Manager

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Automata Full time

Level 5

Hybrid working from our London office 

Automata are building a world-class company to disrupt the life science industry and empower scientists by making automation a reality for every lab.

We work with labs across the world to understand their specific workflows and needs and develop personalised solutions that range from diagnostic, and drug discovery to synthetic biology. Our LINQ platform allows us to simplify everyday automation tasks, while supporting more advanced paths for specialised workflows, in a fast, flexible, and cost-efficient way.

We're looking for a QA and Release Manager whose mission is to be Supporting the delivery the LINQ Cloud and LINQ Workcell platform to provide new global multi-tenant and single-tenant environments for our customer

Why is this role important at Automata?

Automata's platform team is growing to meet an increased demand in our LINQ automation platform from our customers in the life sciences industry.

You will be responsible for:

Responsible for shaping and executing our release engineering strategy, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of software products and services to our customers. This includes:

Release management and upgrades

Integration testing and insights

Quality control process

Responsible for the hiring and budget proposals for this area of engineering.

Develop and implement comprehensive release management and quality assurance strategies that align with the company’s objectives and product roadmap.

Determining software readiness to deploy automation in customer workcells.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering management, operations, and customer success, to ensure smooth and timely releases.

Establish and enforce best practices for release management , integration testing and quality assurance, including automation, CI/CD, testing methodologies, and risk management.

Monitor and manage all aspects of the release processes, from planning and development to deployment and post-release support.

Implement metrics, tools, and processes to improve the quality of deliverables and reduce time-to-market, while also maintaining high reliability and performance standards.

Act as a key stakeholder in product strategy and roadmap discussions, providing insights and recommendations from a release management, testing and robustness perspective.

Championing a DevOps and assurance culture across Automata

What it takes:

Experience as a QA and Release Manager

Solid experience defining QA and Test Strategy

Solid background in testing methodologies and approaches

Software Engineering background

Embedded systems testing experience

Awareness of GxP processes

Awareness of ISO9001/ISO27001

Nice to haves:

Lab automation experience

Life science

What gets us excited?

We’re passionate about the future of Technology and Automation and our growing success is about teams who share our passion. 

Automata is transforming the way labs work with open, integrated automation. Our mission is to unlock the potential of labs and the potential of the people who work in them.

We are looking for Senior Platform Engineers at Automata, to play a key role in designing, building, maintaining and supporting the LINQ Cloud Platform for multi-tenant and single tenant use-cases, and the remote LINQ Workcell platform that runs lab automation workflows . You will work closely with cross-functional software and hardware teams to ensure the scalability, reliability, security and performance of the LINQ Cloud and LINQ Workcell platforms, enabling Automata to deliver lab automation solutions globally

If this sounds like a good fit and has ticked the right boxes, you will love having the opportunity to build something that immediately adds value.



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