Quality Assurance Engineer - Robotics

Our 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 rapyuta.io, 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 robots in a physical environment, testing virtual robots in a simulated environment, automating API tests, and automating systems level testing.  

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

In this role, the QA Engineer will be responsible for: 

• 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 

• Participating in implementing and improving QA processes 

• Implementation of test automation for robotics systems 

Minimum qualifications 

• 3 years of technical experience in software Quality Assurance as an Individual Contributor 

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, or combination of equivalent education and experience 

• Experience writing, maintaining and executing software test cases, both manual and automated 

• Experience writing, maintaining and executing software test cases that incorporate hardware interactions, including manual and automated tests to validate the integration of software with robotics systems 

• Demonstrated experience with Python/C++ 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

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge of HWIL, simulations, ROS 

• Basic understanding of embedded systems and electronics 

• 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

• Competitive salary 

• International working environment 

• Bleeding edge technology 

• Working with exceptionally talented engineers