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As Lead Engineer, Software Test & Quality Assurance, you will lead a team of Software Test & Automation Engineers working across both Hivemind Vision and Hivemind Solutions. You will turn the Australian software test strategy into day-to-day execution, set technical direction for test automation and infrastructure, and own the test evidence and release recommendations behind every software release. The team spans simulation, Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), Vehicle-in-the-Loop (VIL), perception and imagery validation, and live flight test. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will stay technically involved in framework design, test architecture, and complex integration issues while developing the people and capability of the team. You will report to the Senior Manager, Engineering (Systems Engineering and Test), and work closely with the Systems Engineering and Quality Process Engineering teams, as well as perception, autonomy, integration, flight test, program management, and Shield AI's international engineering teams.\nResponsibilities\nResponsibilities:\nLead, mentor, and develop a team of Software Test & Automation Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers, including hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance feedback, and career development.\n\nPlan and prioritise test work across Hivemind Vision and Hivemind Solutions programs, balancing competing schedules and allocating people where they are most needed.\n\nIdentify risks, delays, and resourcing constraints early and communicate them clearly to the Senior Manager, Engineering and to program stakeholders.\n\nBuild a team culture of technical rigour, ownership, continuous improvement, and psychological safety. Test execution and release assurance ·\n\nImplement the Australian software test strategy shaped and endorsed by key stakeholders and leadership across unit, integration, simulation, SIL, HIL, VIL, and flight-test environments.\n\nTailor test approaches to the needs of each team: perception, computer vision, and imagery validation for Hivemind Vision, and autonomy integration and platform validation for Hivemind Solutions.\n\nOwn the software release process, including release readiness criteria, test evidence, approval matrices, and go / no-go recommendations.\n\nWork with Systems Engineering to maintain traceability from requirements and interface control documents (ICDs) through test cases to verification results.\n\nPrepare test readiness and verification evidence for formal technical reviews (e.g., TRR), customer acceptance, and airworthiness submissions.\n\nDevelop and report software quality metrics, dashboards, and readiness assessments that give engineering and program leadership objective evidence of software maturity. Technical direction\n\nSet the technical direction for automated test frameworks, test harnesses, and validation tooling, with Python-based automation at the core.\n\nDrive integration of automated regression, integration, functional, and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous validation and rapid developer feedback and coordinate cross functionally with key stakeholders including DevOps.\n\nGuide the development of repeatable perception test approaches, including curated test datasets, ground-truth comparison, and performance benchmarking for computer vision and imaging-sensor capabilities.\n\nGuide the build-out and maintenance of test environments, including hardware setup, device flashing, SIL/HIL rigs, and cross-platform (Windows and Linux) environments.\n\nLead or support cross-functional root cause investigations into defects and system integration issues, and make sure lessons learned feed back into process and test coverage.\n\nCoordinate operational and integration testing on flights in and around Melbourne with the flight test team. 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