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Test Development Manager

United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Aug 2026

💰 $218,300/yr($121,300/yr – $218,300/yr)

About the role

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

**This position supports hybrid or remote work schedule depending on organization needs.**

Jabil is a leading product solutions provider offering end-to-end design, manufacturing, supply chain, and product management services. With operations in over 100 facilities across 30 countries, Jabil delivers innovative, integrated, and customized solutions to clients across diverse industries—including automotive, consumer lifestyle and wearables, defense and aerospace, smart home and building, industrial and energy, enterprise and infrastructure, healthcare, mobility, packaging, and printing.

JOB SUMMARY

Jabil is seeking a Manufacturing Test Development Manager to lead the development and deployment of large-scale production software systems supporting our Intelligent Infrastructure division. You will be applying unique and innovative approaches to solving problems within a large-scale manufacturing production environment. You and your team will be responsible for contributing to the end-to-end architecture, definition, development and production deployment of production software applications and infrastructure spanning multiple customers and manufacturing regions. You will also be responsible for interfacing with internal engineering, manufacturing and quality teams and our end customers to ensure your software deliverables meet the rigorous standards of Jabil’s world-class manufacturing environments.

This is not a traditional QA manager nor manual test role. This position is focused on leading teams that design, build, and deploy production-grade software platforms, automation systems, and test infrastructure across global manufacturing environments, with a strong emphasis on scalable software development and system architecture.

You will lead a team of software engineers and play a key role in technical decision-making, architecture strategy, and cross-functional leadership, partnering with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and customers to deliver scalable, high-impact solutions.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

People manager for a team of software developers and product engineers in support of global cloud operations.
Attract, hire, onboard, lead, coach, mentor and inspire your team to deliver the best in class for our customers and employees
Establish clear measurable goals and objectives by which to determine individual and team results (i.e. operational metrics, results against project timelines).
Solicit ongoing self and team feedback from the business unit (BU), customer and team members.
Perform team member evaluations professionally and on time.
Drive individuals and the team to continuously improve in key operational metrics and the achievement of the organizational goals.
Coordinate activities of team and keep them focused in times of crises.
Ensure recognition and rewards are managed fairly and consistently in area of responsibility.

FUNCTIONAL MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Plan and formulate aspects of Customer BU projects such as objective or purpose of project, applications derived from findings, cost, and required technical resources.
Provide direction on software design, development, and automation strategies to improve, modify, or create new systems and processes.
Oversee key projects, processes and performance reports, data, and analysis.
Develop, determine, and implement policies, procedures and programs.
Analyze technology trends, software tooling, and resource needs to effectively plan projects.
Oversee definition and collaboration on overall test infrastructure and application architectures with a strong emphasis on scalable software systems.
Lead creation of high-level software design specifications and system architecture decisions.
Drive development of production infrastructure and related application code and automation frameworks.
Lead and participate in peer/code reviews to ensure software quality and maintainability.
Contribute to and improve software build methodology, CI/CD pipelines, procedures, and engineering environments.
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