On-Site role
Job Description:
- Test Engineer - Baseline.
- Onsite in Foster City, CA | 5 days in office.
- Our Client is seeking a Test Engineer to join their Product Software QA Team, focusing on manual and automation testing for our mission-critical web application.
- In this role, you will bridge the gap between software validation and physical vehicle systems.
- You will play a key role in manual release validation, vehicle mission testing, and hardware troubleshooting, while also contributing to the development and maintenance of automated test cases.
- This position requires a sharp technical mind, close collaboration with cross-functional teams, and the ability to ensure high-quality releases across multiple complex environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Automation & Manual Testing: Develop, maintain, and expand Playwright automation test cases to enhance regression coverage. Perform manual testing for baseline features, releases, hotfixes, and pre-merge validations.
- Vehicle Mission Testing & Diagnostics: Conduct vehicle mission testing, evaluate workflows from an Operations perspective, and provide detailed reporting on mission outcomes.
- Triage & Troubleshooting: Support ZPT triage and assist in identifying, reproducing, and verifying defects across Dev, Staging, and Production environments.
- Utilize vehicle troubleshooting workflows to isolate issues.
- Clear & Actionable Bug Reporting: Translate complex technical and hardware issues into concise, well-structured bug reports with unambiguous reproduction steps for developers, PMs, and stakeholders.
- AI & Process Innovation: Capitalize on AI tools and AI-augmented critical thinking to improve QA processes, enhance testing efficiency, and constructively challenge the status quo.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with developers, QA leads, and product managers to ensure test completeness and feature validation readiness.
- Release Ownership: Provide QA sign-off for release readiness. Document test results, maintain rigorous traceability to requirements, and track issues all the way to closure.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor//'s or Master//'s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- Experience: 1-3 years of experience as a QA/Test Engineer with proven skills in testing large-scale, complex applications.
- Tools: Strong working experience with industry-standard testing and tracking tools like JIRA and TestRail.
- Diagnostics & Communication Protocols: Proficient in UDS, CAN, and Ethernet communication protocols with hands-on experience in vehicle troubleshooting workflows.
- Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Systems Knowledge: Familiarity with AV components including LiDAR, radar, cameras, and EV powertrain systems (battery, drive modules, firmware operations).
- Core Competencies: High adaptability and accountability; ability to quickly ramp up in fast-paced environments. Rigorous documentation standards with an automation-first mindset.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript, Python.
- Hands-on automation experience with Playwright.
About us:
At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R - Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.
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