Senior Automation Engineer

Bose Corporation • Framingham, MA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Think you know Bose? Look closer. We’ve spent more than 60 years finding new ways to bring quality audio products to people—in their homes, in cars, planes, and just about anywhere there is an opportunity to enjoy music. Our legendary QuietComfort® noise cancelling headphones, SoundLink® speakers, and home theater systems may ring a bell with you. Behind every iconic Bose product is a rigorous commitment to quality — ensuring every connection, every feature, and every listening experience performs as intended, every time. Bose relies on exceptional people to create and deliver those products to our customers. The future of consumer electronics at Bose isn’t just about award-winning speakers or headphones. It’s about the end-to-end consumer experience enabled by connected features and services. Helping people feel more connected, productive, and inspired through exceptional product experiences. At Bose, we’re obsessed with delivering amazing experiences through superior technology and design. That experience depends on reliability, performance, and seamless integration across hardware, firmware, cloud services, and mobile applications — areas where strong automation and quality engineering leadership make a measurable impact. As we expand our team, we are building a modern Quality Engineering organization that will drive automation-first strategies and embed quality deeply into our CI/CD pipelines across all consumer product lines. About the Role As a Senior Automation Engineer based in Framingham, you will play a key role in architecting and building Bose’s next-generation automation framework and integrating it directly into our CI/CD ecosystem. This is not a maintenance role — it is a build-and-lead role. You will define automation strategy, design scalable test infrastructure, and ensure that automated validation is tightly coupled with firmware, mobile, and cloud development workflows. You will partner closely with Software Engineering, DevOps, Release Engineering, and Quality leaders to drive shift-left practices, increase regression coverage, reduce escape defects, and enable faster, safer product releases across headphones, earbuds, Bluetooth speakers, and home theater systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent preferred
• 7+ years in software quality engineering with significant automation experience
• Proven experience building or significantly evolving automation frameworks from the ground up
• Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Java, or similar) with production-grade code practices
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent)
• Familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop or embedded system validation
• Understanding of Bluetooth and wireless system behaviors in consumer electronics environments
• Deep understanding of test pyramid strategy (unit, integration, system, end-to-end)
• Experience designing reliable, maintainable automated test suites at scale
• Strong knowledge of pipeline orchestration, containerization, and test infrastructure concepts
• Ability to define and track quality KPIs that influence engineering behavior
• Ability to drive alignment across cross-functional engineering teams
• Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills across distributed systems
• Clear and structured communication style suited for technical and leadership audiences
• Passion for raising the quality bar and building long-term, sustainable automation capability

Responsibilities

• Architect & Build a Modern Automation Framework
• Design and implement a scalable, modular automation framework supporting embedded, mobile, API, and system-level testing
• Establish clear patterns for test structure, reusability, environment control, and reporting
• Ensure the framework supports hardware-in-the-loop and wireless test scenarios
• Drive framework standards that can be adopted across multiple product teams
• Embed Automation into CI/CD
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines with clear quality gates and failure triage workflows
• Partner with DevOps to optimize pipeline execution time, parallelization, and infrastructure utilization
• Define metrics for pipeline health, test reliability, coverage, and defect detection effectiveness
• Drive Automation Strategy & Quality Maturity
• Define automation roadmaps aligned to product risk profiles and release velocity targets
• Transition manual regression suites into stable, high-value automated scenarios
• Implement test data management and environment provisioning strategies
• Champion shift-left validation, including unit, integration, and API-level coverage
• Technical Leadership & Collaboration
• Mentor mid-level and junior automation engineers
• Establish code review standards and best practices for test code quality
• Collaborate with architects to influence system design for testability
• Partner with Quality and Engineering leadership to drive measurable reduction in escaped defects and field issues

Benefits

• Our compensation is thoughtfully tailored to your skills, experience, education, and location, and goes beyond base salary.
• In addition to competitive base pay we offer rewards including bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, plus exclusive perks designed to support your wellbeing, and a generous employee discount where you can immerse yourself in our products and experiences.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees