{"id":2811400,"url":"https://alion.io/job/hcltech-senior-automation-tester-9","title":"Senior Automation Tester","company":{"id":225,"name":"HCLTech","domain":"hcltech.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/hcltech","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":93000,"max_usd":184000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":648},"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-18T09:38:20Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-18","last_verified_at":"2026-10-24T17:33:32Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":8,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":8},"description":"Job Summary\nRole Summary\nWe are seeking a Release Operations Engineer to join the Wearables Productivity and Infrastructure team. This role is the operational backbone of Meta's wearable device software releases, responsible for supporting the branch-to-release lifecycle across multiple product lines including AI-powered smart glasses, display glasses, and wrist-worn devices.\nThe ideal candidate will support release branch management, change request operations, build tracking, and cross-functional release communication for Meta's rapidly growing wearables portfolio. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role that directly affects the shipping velocity and quality of millions of consumer devices.\nCore Responsibilities\n1. Release Branch Operations (Primary - ~50% of time)\nSupport operation on release branches across all Wearables product lines (5+ concurrent release trains)\nProcess change requests (blocking and non-blocking changes) for merge into release branches\nTrack and communicate with regular cadencedaily build of interest candidates to cross-functional stakeholders\nrelease change status updates \n\nCoordinate cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, and diff landing on release branches\nSupport hotfix release cycles including branch cuts, builds, and deployments\n2. Release Health Monitoring & SEV Response (~20% of time)\nMonitor release branch health including build status, ingest pipelines, and test suites\nEscalate issues byfiling release-impacting SEVs (build failures, test regressions)\nPulling in the right engineering teams for faster resolution possible \n\nTrack release quality bar test failures\n3. Release Tooling & Automation (~15% of time)\nReport Release Infrastructure issues with details\nOperate automation and AI skills\nBuild and maintain release operational workflows and runbooks\nIdentify and implement process improvements to reduce manual overhead\n4. Cross-Functional Communication & Coordination (~15% of time)\nServe as the release operations point of contact for 20+ engineering teams\nCooperate with release leadership to meet release timelines and communicate impacts of schedule changes on release operation\nRequired Skills & Experience\nMust-Have\n3+ years experience in Release Engineering / Release Operations for consumer electronics or mobile platforms\nFamiliarity with Android platform - AOSP builds, system services, app ingest pipelines\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines - build systems, automated testing, release branching strategies\nGit/Mercurial proficiency - cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, branch management at scale\nChange management experience - evaluating risk of code changes landing in stabilized branches\n Strong communication skills - ability to write clear status updates for diverse audiences (engineering, TPM, QA, leadership)\nSEV response experience - triage, escalation, and driving resolution under time pressure\nScripting/automation skills - Python, shell scripting, or similar for operational automation\nAbility to manage multiple concurrent workstreams - juggling 3-5 parallel release trains\nStrongly Preferred\nExperience with Meta's internal tooling ecosystem (Release Beast, Phabricator/Diffs, Tasks, Buck2)\nFamiliarity with embedded systems / firmware release processes\nExperience with wearable devices or IoT product release cycles\nExperience working with globally distributed teams\nPrior experience in a high-velocity release environment (weekly, bi-weekly or monthly cadences)\nNice-to-Have\nExperience with Scuba, ODS, or similar observability platforms for release health monitoring\nBackground in test infrastructure (emulators, automated test suites, build test frameworks)\nExposure toAI/ML feature integration on embedded devices\nsecurity patch management for Android devices\n\nKey Responsibilities\nRole Summary\nWe are seeking a Release Operations Engineer to join the Wearables Productivity and Infrastructure team. This role is the operational backbone of Meta's wearable device software releases, responsible for supporting the branch-to-release lifecycle across multiple product lines including AI-powered smart glasses, display glasses, and wrist-worn devices.\nThe ideal candidate will support release branch management, change request operations, build tracking, and cross-functional release communication for Meta's rapidly growing wearables portfolio. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role that directly affects the shipping velocity and quality of millions of consumer devices.\nCore Responsibilities\n1. Release Branch Operations (Primary - ~50% of time)\nSupport operation on release branches across all Wearables product lines (5+ concurrent release trains)\nProcess change requests (blocking and non-blocking changes) for merge into release branches\nTrack and communicate with regular cadencedaily build of interest candidates to cross-functional stakeholders\nrelease change status updates \n\nCoordinate cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, and diff landing on release branches\nSupport hotfix release cycles including branch cuts, builds, and deployments\n2. Release Health Monitoring & SEV Response (~20% of time)\nMonitor release branch health including build status, ingest pipelines, and test suites\nEscalate issues byfiling release-impacting SEVs (build failures, test regressions)\nPulling in the right engineering teams for faster resolution possible \n\nTrack release quality bar test failures\n3. Release Tooling & Automation (~15% of time)\nReport Release Infrastructure issues with details\nOperate automation and AI skills\nBuild and maintain release operational workflows and runbooks\nIdentify and implement process improvements to reduce manual overhead\n4. Cross-Functional Communication & Coordination (~15% of time)\nServe as the release operations point of contact for 20+ engineering teams\nCooperate with release leadership to meet release timelines and communicate impacts of schedule changes on release operation\nRequired Skills & Experience\nMust-Have\n3+ years experience in Release Engineering / Release Operations for consumer electronics or mobile platforms\nFamiliarity with Android platform - AOSP builds, system services, app ingest pipelines\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines - build systems, automated testing, release branching strategies\nGit/Mercurial proficiency - cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, branch management at scale\nChange management experience - evaluating risk of code changes landing in stabilized branches\n Strong communication skills - ability to write clear status updates for diverse audiences (engineering, TPM, QA, leadership)\nSEV response experience - triage, escalation, and driving resolution under time pressure\nScripting/automation skills - Python, shell scripting, or similar for operational automation\nAbility to manage multiple concurrent workstreams - juggling 3-5 parallel release trains\nStrongly Preferred\nExperience with Meta's internal tooling ecosystem (Release Beast, Phabricator/Diffs, Tasks, Buck2)\nFamiliarity with embedded systems / firmware release processes\nExperience with wearable devices or IoT product release cycles\nExperience working with globally distributed teams\nPrior experience in a high-velocity release environment (weekly, bi-weekly or monthly cadences)\nNice-to-Have\nExperience with Scuba, ODS, or similar observability platforms for release health monitoring\nBackground in test infrastructure (emulators, automated test suites, build test frameworks)\nExposure toAI/ML feature integration on embedded devices\nsecurity patch management for Android devices\n\nSkill Requirements\nRole Summary\nWe are seeking a Release Operations Engineer to join the Wearables Productivity and Infrastructure team. This role is the operational backbone of Meta's wearable device software releases, responsible for supporting the branch-to-release lifecycle across multiple product lines including AI-powered smart glasses, display glasses, and wrist-worn devices.\nThe ideal candidate will support release branch management, change request operations, build tracking, and cross-functional release communication for Meta's rapidly growing wearables portfolio. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role that directly affects the shipping velocity and quality of millions of consumer devices.\nCore Responsibilities\n1. Release Branch Operations (Primary - ~50% of time)\nSupport operation on release branches across all Wearables product lines (5+ concurrent release trains)\nProcess change requests (blocking and non-blocking changes) for merge into release branches\nTrack and communicate with regular cadencedaily build of interest candidates to cross-functional stakeholders\nrelease change status updates \n\nCoordinate cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, and diff landing on release branches\nSupport hotfix release cycles including branch cuts, builds, and deployments\n2. Release Health Monitoring & SEV Response (~20% of time)\nMonitor release branch health including build status, ingest pipelines, and test suites\nEscalate issues byfiling release-impacting SEVs (build failures, test regressions)\nPulling in the right engineering teams for faster resolution possible \n\nTrack release quality bar test failures\n3. Release Tooling & Automation (~15% of time)\nReport Release Infrastructure issues with details\nOperate automation and AI skills\nBuild and maintain release operational workflows and runbooks\nIdentify and implement process improvements to reduce manual overhead\n4. Cross-Functional Communication & Coordination (~15% of time)\nServe as the release operations point of contact for 20+ engineering teams\nCooperate with release leadership to meet release timelines and communicate impacts of schedule changes on release operation\nRequired Skills & Experience\nMust-Have\n3+ years experience in Release Engineering / Release Operations for consumer electronics or mobile platforms\nFamiliarity with Android platform - AOSP builds, system services, app ingest pipelines\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines - build systems, automated testing, release branching strategies\nGit/Mercurial proficiency - cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, branch management at scale\nChange management experience - evaluating risk of code changes landing in stabilized branches\n Strong communication skills - ability to write clear status updates for diverse audiences (engineering, TPM, QA, leadership)\nSEV response experience - triage, escalation, and driving resolution under time pressure\nScripting/automation skills - Python, shell scripting, or similar for operational automation\nAbility to manage multiple concurrent workstreams - juggling 3-5 parallel release trains\nStrongly Preferred\nExperience with Meta's internal tooling ecosystem (Release Beast, Phabricator/Diffs, Tasks, Buck2)\nFamiliarity with embedded systems / firmware release processes\nExperience with wearable devices or IoT product release cycles\nExperience working with globally distributed teams\nPrior experience in a high-velocity release environment (weekly, bi-weekly or monthly cadences)\nNice-to-Have\nExperience with Scuba, ODS, or similar observability platforms for release health monitoring\nBackground in test infrastructure (emulators, automated test suites, build test frameworks)\nExposure toAI/ML feature integration on embedded devices\nsecurity patch management for Android devices\n\nOther Requirements\nRole Summary\nWe are seeking a Release Operations Engineer to join the Wearables Productivity and Infrastructure team. 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