Senior Engineering Manager, Automated Test

Your Job

The Senior Engineering Manager, Automated Test is accountable for the overall performance, capability, capacity, design, development, and long-term strategy of automated production test across backplane, near-ASIC, and other high speed cable assembly products.

This role provides senior leadership across people, technology, and execution, ensuring production and validation test solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with business growth across multiple product segments.

This position leads managers, supervisors, technical leads, and senior engineers, and is responsible for global alignment of automated test strategies, standardization, and continuous improvement across sites.

The role partners closely with Product Development, Signal Integrity, Reliability, Manufacturing, Quality, and Software teams to ensure test readiness, risk mitigation, and customer satisfaction.

Our Team

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications.

The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader.

Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

What You Will Do
Organizational Leadership & People Management


* Provide senior leadership for the automated test engineering organization, including managers, supervisors, technical leads, engineers, and technicians.


* Set expectations, define annual Roles, Responsibilities & Expectations (RR&Es), manage performance, and drive succession planning and career development.


* Oversee workforce planning, recruiting strategy, onboarding, and talent development.


* Build a high-performance culture emphasizing accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

Strategy, Capability & Technology Roadmaps


* Define and execute long-term automated test strategy supporting multiple product segments.


* Own global roadmaps for test automation frameworks, fixture strategy, instrumentation, and data pipelines.


* Drive adoption of global standards, best practices, and design reuse.


* Lead capital planning and investment prioritization for automated test infrastructure.

Program Execution & NPI Readiness


* Ensure production test plan readiness for all NPI and sustaining programs.


* Represent automated test engineering in program reviews, risk assessments, and leadership updates.


* Identify and mitigate technical, schedule, and capacity risks related to test readiness.

Cross-Functional & Customer Alignment


* Partner closely with Signal Integrity, Reliability, Manufacturing, Quality, Software, and Design Engineering teams.


* Serve as the senior escalation point for complex test and correlation issues.


* Support customer engagements rela...