QA Automation Engineer

Unbox Robotics; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,600,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Unbox Robotics seeks a QA Test Automation Engineer to own automated testing across API, integration, UI, and end‑to‑end scopes. You will build fast, reliable test suites for a hardware‑in‑the‑loop system and integrate them into CI pipelines to catch regressions early.

The role requires 3–5 years in software QA, strong Python/JS/TS skills, experience with Playwright/Cypress/Selenium, and API/SQL testing. Pune on‑site, collaboration with a distributed team across locations.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in software QA / test automation.
• Strong programming ability in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands‑on experience with UI/API test frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium).
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and handling flaky tests.
• Comfort with API testing (REST), SQL querying, and log reading.
• Clear defect reports and test strategy awareness.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites (API, integration, UI, and end‑to‑end) for our control and fulfilment systems.
• Own test automation frameworks — choose tools, keep them fast and extensible.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI) with clear failure signals.
• Build test coverage for services talking over RabbitMQ and persisting to PostgreSQL.
• Design and run performance, load, and reliability tests; define pass/fail thresholds.
• Collaborate with developers to shift testing left and define acceptance criteria.
• Triage, reproduce, and root‑cause defects; write reproducible reports and close them.
• Contribute to release readiness and regression sign‑offs across projects.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Test frameworks

Debugging

API testing

SQL

CI/CD

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

pytest

REST‑assured

Postman/Newman

Job description

QA Test Automation Engineer

Location: Pune HO, India (In Campus) Experience: 3–5 years Team: Validation

About Unbox Robotics

Unbox Robotics builds AI-powered warehouse robotics systems that make order fulfilment and parcel sortation dramatically faster and denser. Our platform — spanning RoboSort, the Robot Control System, and the surrounding WMS/ECS integrations — runs live in fulfilment centres where reliability isn’t optional. We’re a distributed team across India, the US, and the Netherlands, shipping software that coordinates fleets of robots against real-world physical constraints.

The Role

We’re looking for a QA engineer who thinks in frameworks, not test cases. You’ll own and grow the automated testing that gives us confidence to ship changes across a distributed, hardware-in-the-loop system — from API and integration layers up through operator-facing UIs — and wire that testing into CI so regressions get caught before they reach a warehouse floor.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites (API, integration, UI, and end-to-end) for our control and fulfilment systems.
• Own test automation frameworks — choosing the right tools, keeping them fast and non-flaky, and making them easy for engineers to extend.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI) so quality gates run on every merge, with clear signal on failures.
• Build test coverage for services that talk over message queues (RabbitMQ) and persist to PostgreSQL, including data-integrity and state-transition checks.
• Design and run performance, load, and reliability tests against critical paths, and help define pass/fail thresholds.
• Partner with developers to shift testing left — reviewing testability of new features, defining acceptance criteria, and contributing to test strategy early in the cycle.
• Triage, reproduce, and root-cause defects; write clear, reproducible reports and track them to closure.
• Contribute to release readiness — go/no-go assessments, regression sign-off, and release validation across projects.

What you’ll need

• 3–5 years in software QA / test automation, with a strong track record building automated suites (not just running manual cases).
• Solid programming ability in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript for writing maintainable test code.
• Hands‑on experience with test automation frameworks — e.g. Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium for UI, and pytest / REST‑assured / Postman‑Newman for API testing.
• Practical experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and reasoning about flaky‑test mitigation, parallelisation, and test data management.
• Comfort with API testing (REST), reading logs, and querying databases (SQL) to validate behaviour end‑to‑end.
• Strong debugging instincts and the ability to isolate whether a failure is in the test, the code, the data, or the environment.
• Clear written communication for defect reports, test plans, and release notes.

Good to have

• Experience testing distributed systems, event‑driven architectures, or message‑queue‑based services (RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Exposure to performance/load testing tools (k6, Locust, JMeter).
• Familiarity with containerised environments (Docker/Podman) and setting up reproducible test environments.
• Experience with hardware‑in‑the‑loop, IoT, robotics, or other systems where software meets the physical world.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana) to validate system behaviour under test.
• Prior work in warehousing, logistics, or industrial automation domains.