Sr. QA Automation Engineer

What we're doing isn't easy. But nothing worth doing ever is.

We envision a future powered by robots that work seamlessly with human teams. We build artificial intelligence that enables service robots to collaborate with people and adapt to dynamic human environments. Join our mission-driven, venture-backed team as we build out our customer-facing operations arm.

As a Sr. QA Automation Engineer at Diligent Robotics, you will lead a variety of development, hardware/software integration, and testing infrastructure projects. Your primary responsibility will be to help design and write automated test frameworks and tools to validate our robots. You'll be writing code that automatically verifies and validates the quality of our products. Some of the role responsibilities will include implementation of production code to test components and robots in addition to the maintenance of system integration testing tools, and technical review and planning for new features and products. A successful candidate will need to be hands on with robot hardware and be eager to learn about all parts of the systems at Diligent. An Sr. QA Automation Engineer must have very strong programming and system level testing skills and be an advocate for strong product quality and process improvements. This position will play a vital role in Diligent’s ability to successfully deliver high quality robotic solutions to our customers. 

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automation frameworks and testing strategies.
• Integrate with robotic infrastructure to establish a continuous build and test cycle.
• Be a technical contributor to projects from the ideation phase to the delivery of a commercial product.
• Design and develop testing systems for continuous integration and deployment
• Work cross functionally with software, and hardware engineering teams to develop and deliver functional, robust, and stable commercial products.
• Perform functional testing against robotic hardware.
• Implement test procedures to ensure proper functionality of Diligent products prior to shipping to customers.
• Define and automate manual test procedures with a focus on quality, repeatability, and data driven results. 

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in software development and/or test automation. This includes designing and implementing Automated Test Frameworks and Tools, to drive testability while promoting best practices in quality areas. 
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience
• Strong understanding of test automation methodologies
• Strong understanding of software release testing methodologies
• Experienced in Agile or Scrum methodologies
• Experience designing and building automated software testing frameworks and workflows for teams (i.e. Selenium, Cucumber among others)
• Experience designing, building and maintaining automation testing tool sets (i.e. Python and C++ among others). 
• Experience with API automation testing including unit test automation frameworks
• Experience with Linux, Docker, Git, shell scripting
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Excellent reporting skills
• Outstanding cross functional team member
• Enthusiastic about learning new things and being hands on with robots and other hardware

Nice to Haves

• Experience with ROS and testing multi-tier software applications, human machine interaction systems and robotic applications
• Experience with AWS Robomaker

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and equity based on experience and contribution
• Opportunity to be part of an exciting startup venture
• Experience working with some of the leading experts in robotics
• Potential to radically change the future of healthcare 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color,  national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.