Senior QA Manager – Software Quality Assurance & Test Development

MaxLinear is looking for a Senior QA Manager to lead and evolve our software quality assurance strategy. This role combines technical expertise in QA methodologies with strong leadership and team management skills. You will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products through robust testing frameworks, automation, and continuous improvement practices. In this role, you will focus on the following:

• Define and implement QA strategies, test plans, and test automation frameworks for embedded and application-level software
• Lead a team of QA engineers, providing mentorship, performance feedback, and career development
• Collaborate closely with development, product, and hardware teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the software lifecycle
• Drive test coverage across integration, system, and regression levels. Integrated in Maxlinear’s CI system
• Oversee and manage test lab definition, set up and maintenance, to support automated and manual testing
• Drive analysis of test results by the team and ensure timely resolution. Ensure that team gets the necessary knowledge of the system under test
• Manage QA processes during pre-silicon and post-silicon stages, including silicon bring-up and validation
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA tools, processes, and best practices

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• 10+ years of experience in software QA or embedded systems testing
• 5+ years in a leadership or management role within QA or software engineering
• Proven track record of building and scaling QA teams
• Experience in telecom, wireless, or embedded product development is a plus
• Familiarity with Linux/Windows driver testing is a bonus
• Strong experience in QA methodologies, test planning, and automation
• Good level of Python or scripting languages for test automation
• Experience with test frameworks (e.g., PyTest, Robot Framework, Jenkins, etc.)
• Ability to understand automation architecture and provide related inputs to the team
• Familiarity with embedded systems, device drivers, and hardware interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, etc.)
• Solid understanding of RTOS environments and multi-core systems
• Desirable knowledge of communication systems and their main protocols
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
• Strong leadership, organizational, and project management abilities
• Effective English communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

• Competitive Salary Package
• Stock-based compensation
• Private Medical Insurance 
• Life Insurance

MaxLinear is a global, NASDAQ-traded company (MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. We are a fabless system-on-chip product company, striving to improve the world’s communication networks for everyone through our highly integrated radio-frequency (RF), analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.

We hire the best people in the industry and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities that connect the world we live in today. Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world’s most challenging communication technology problems in the most efficient and effective manner.

MaxLinear began by developing the world’s first high-performance TV tuner chip using standard CMOS process technology. Others said we couldn’t achieve the extremely high-performance requirements using CMOS, but we proved them wrong and achieved enduring global market leadership with our designs. Since then, we’ve developed a full line of products that drive 4G and 5G infrastructure; enable data center, metro and long-haul optical interconnects; bring 10Gbit to the home; power the IoT revolution; and enable robust and reliable communication in harsh industrial environments. Over the years, we’ve expanded through organic growth and through several acquisitions that have perfectly complemented our existing portfolio and enabled us to deliver complete end-to-end solutions in our target markets. One such example was the acquisition of Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division that added Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Broadband Gateway Processor SoC technology to our connected home portfolio creating a complete and scalable platform of connectivity and access solutions to fully address our customers’ needs.

Our headquarters are in Carlsbad, near San Diego, California. We also have major design centers in Irvine and San Jose, California; Vancouver, Canada; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore and Chennai, India; Munich, Germany; Israel; and Singapore.

We have approximately 1,200 employees, a substantial majority of whom have engineering degrees and include masters and Ph.D. graduates from many of the premiere universities around the world. Our employees thrive on innovation, outstanding execution, outside-the-box thinking, nimbleness, and collaboration. Together, we form a high-energy business team that is focused on building the best and most innovative products on the market.