Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt take control and get back to what they do best building the businesses they love As a Senior Engineering Manager focused on Automation Engineering you will lead a team of Automation Engineers responsible for building and evolving automation platforms that enable Toast to deliver high-quality software at scale You will define automation strategy establish best practices and deliver frameworks that empower product engineering teams to build and maintain their own automated tests You will partner closely with Product Management and Engineering leaders across our Business Systems organization to prioritize high-impact automation initiatives accelerate developer productivity and reduce reliance on manual testing of happy-path scenarios This role has broad technical and organizational influence and is a critical lever for improving delivery speed confidence and consistency across Toast About this Role Responsibilities Lead and manage a team of Automation Engineers across multiple locations providing technical mentorship career development and performance management Own the automation engineering vision and roadmap defining standards patterns and best practices aligned with Toast s architecture and CI CD pipelines Design scale and maintain automation frameworks and platforms that are reliable maintainable and easy for engineering teams to adopt and extend Enable engineering teams to own automation by providing robust frameworks documentation and tooling embedded into developer workflows Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership to prioritize automation investments based on business impact and delivery risk Integrate automation deeply into the software development lifecycle including CI CD pipelines build gates and release processes Define and track key automation metrics including effectiveness execution performance flakiness and impact on developer productivity Provide hands-