Senior Automation Engineer

At Bose Corporation, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth — and for over 60 years, we have been a company built on innovation, excellence, and independence. Privately owned, fiercely customer-focused, and driven by our values, we continue to lead industries and transform lives through sound. 

  

Today, Bose Corporation is entering an exciting new era. Across multiple global Business Units and Global Functions, we are shaping the future of audio technology, automotive, luxury, and premium experiences. We invite you to join us in this transformation. 

Job DescriptionThink 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.

What You’ll DoArchitect & 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

What You BringExperience & Technical Depth

• 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

Automation & DevOps Mindset

• 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

Leadership & Influence

• 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

Why This Role Matters

• Direct impact on product release confidence and speed across global consumer product lines

• Opportunity to build foundational automation infrastructure that will scale across all Bose categories

• High visibility role influencing engineering culture and CI/CD transformation

• Key contributor to reducing customer-facing defects and protecting the Bose brand reputation worldwide

At Bose, you're inspired to be and do your best and are rewarded for your unique talents! Our compensation is thoughtfully tailored to your skills, experience, education, and location, and goes beyond base salary. The hiring range for this position in the primary work location of Framingham, Massachusetts is: $123,000-$169,050.The hiring range for other Bose work locations may vary. 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. We are a proudly independent company—driven by purpose, guided by our values, and united by a belief in the power of sound. As the world leader in audio experiences, we’re creating what’s next—pushing boundaries and delivering transformative sound experiences for people everywhere. Join us and make your next career move a mic-drop. Let’s Make Waves.

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Bose is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. The EEOC’s “Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal” Poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf. Bose is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Please include "Application Accommodation Request" in the subject of the email.

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