Software QA Automation Engineer

SEA.AI; Wien; Híbrido; EUR 54.000 - 66.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible hours

Home office

Travel opportunities

Boat license subsidies

Office boats testing

Descripción de la vacante

SEA.AI is hiring a Senior QA & Automation Engineer to strengthen our software team in Lisbon. You will design and implement automated QA workflows to ensure safe, reliable software shipped for vessels and marine applications.

The role emphasizes end-to-end testing, risk-based automation focus, and hardware-in-the-loop experience. We offer flexible hours, travel to European offices, and opportunities to advance in a fast-growing AI-driven environment.

Formación

• 5+ years of QA engineering, test automation, or software quality in a professional setting.
• Hands-on test automation in one or more languages (C++, Python, Java).
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop, embedded systems, or IoT testing environments.

Responsabilidades

• Assess current QA workflow end-to-end and design a scalable strategy.
• Shift quality left and make testability a design consideration from day one.
• Apply risk-based assessment to identify where automation adds the most value.
• Reduce reliance on fully integrated hardware for development and QA.
• Drive automation of pre-release qualification and reduce manual testing.
• Incorporate AI-native approaches to test generation and failure analysis.

Conocimientos

QA engineering

Test automation

End-to-end testing

Herramientas

XRay for Jira

Descripción del empleo

Using artificial intelligence and machine vision, we provide crews on boats and ships with the mostaccuratedigital understanding of avessel ‘snear-field surface surroundings. We make marine mobility safer and more convenient, providing a better mobility experience at sea.

We are a multi-national team based in Austria, France,Portugaland the US. We offer a fast and agile workplace for experts from a variety of disciplines. We share a common culture shaped by ambition, autonomy, openness, honesty, and respect. As a fast-growing team of ~60colleagues, we are large enough to create impact.We are also small enough that each team member has an influence on the way we work. To strengthen our software team in Lisbon, we are looking for a Senior QA & Automation Engineer (m/f/d), 38.5 hours/week.

Role overview

Quality is the line between a software update and a safety incident at sea. Our camera systems run on embedded NVIDIA Jetson hardware and are deployed on vessels operated by coast guards, rescue services, ferry operators, and recreational sailors. Your mission is to work with our Scrum teams to create a reliable, sustainable, and thoroughly automated QA workflow that helps us ship software faster while keeping confidence high.

Responsibilities

• Assess our current software QA workflow end-to-end and design a strategy that turns it into a force multiplier, one that scales with the pace of development rather than constraining it
• Shift quality left: embed QA thinking into the development process from specification and estimation, ensuring testability is a design consideration from day one
• Apply risk-based assessment, identifying where automation delivers the most confidence per effort and where current practices can be safely streamlined
• Reduce the team's reliance on fully integrated hardware for development and QA
• Drive the automation of pre-release qualification, reducing the manual testing burden
• Bring AI-native approaches to test generation, spec-driven test design, and failure analysis

Your profile and qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in QA engineering, test automation, or software quality in a professional setting
• Extensive hands-on test automation experience in one or more of the following languages: C++, Python, Java
• You make daily use of agentic coding tools and evolve your approach as the landscape moves
• Proven track record with end-to-end, integration, and performance testing
• Practical experience with test management and related tooling (XRay for Jira or similar)
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop, embedded systems, or IoT testing environments
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus
• Nice to haves: familiarity with real-time video pipelines; experience testing on ARM/embedded Linux; background in automotive, aerospace, robotics, or other safety-relevant embedded domains

How You Work

• You think about how you will measure success before writing the first line of code
• You are genuinely curious, form your own opinions, and back them with evidence
• You speak up when something is broken, with constructive ideas you can defend
• You dig for the real cause of a problem instead of patching the symptom
• You treat AI as part of your toolkit: building your own workflows while understanding where it helps and where it doesn't

What we offer

• A collaborative, international environment where you can share ideas openly, take ownership, and continue to grow.
• Your systems get tested on company-owned boats, on the water
• Flexible hours, occasional home office, and travel to our other European offices
• Subsidies for motorboat and sailing licenses, because we live what we build
• Minimum salary for this job is EUR 60.000,00 gross per year - according to your experience and education we are willing to pay more

Ready for the Challenge?

We do look forward to receiving your complete application includingearlieststarting date. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome diversity. We encourage everyone to apply and will give everyone equal consideration. If you should have any questions, we are happy to answer them by email:[e-mail]