Quality Assurance Engineer

The company's Engineering team is changing gears to meet the growing needs of our customers - from a handful of robots to hundreds of robots; from a small team to multiple squads. The team works closely with some of the premier enterprise customers in Japan to build state-of-the-art robotics solutions by leveraging the company, our cloud robotics platform, and the surrounding ecosystem. The team’s mission is to pioneer scalable, collaborative, and flexible robotics solutions.

This role includes: testing with real automated forklifts in a physical environment, testing virtual robots in a simulated environment, automating API tests, and automating systems level testing.

The ideal candidate is someone who is interested in working in a hands-on role with state-of-art robots.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in reviewing and analyzing the system specifications to define test cases
• Creating and maintaining test plans
• Executing test plans in a simulated environment and on hardware
• Defect tracking and generating bug and test reports
• Preparing test data
• Participating in implementing and improving QA processes
• Implementation of test automation for robotics systems

Requirements

• At least 3 years of technical experience in software Quality Assurance as an Individual Contributor
• Bachelor degree in engineering, or combination of equivalent education and experience
• Experience writing, maintaining and executing test cases, both manual and automated
• Demonstrated experience with Python/Java testing frameworks
• Expertise in Linux ecosystem
• Advanced knowledge of testing approaches: test levels; BDD/TDD; blackbox/whitebox approaches; regression testing
• Knowledge and practical experience of Agile principles and methodologies such as SCRUM
• HTTP API testing experience
• English language proficiency

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of HWIL, simulations, ROS
• Experience with developing/QA for robotics or hardware products will be a plus.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as TestNG, JUnit, Pytest, Playwright, Selenium, or similar tool
• ISTQB certification
• Japanese language proficiency
• Proficiency with version control repositories such as Git
• Understanding of CI/CD systems such as: GHA; Jenkins; CircleCI