Cloud QA Engineer - API & Backend Automation

TP-Link Systems Inc.; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k contributions

Paid time off 15 days

11 paid holidays

Bi-annual pay increases

Wellness benefits

Job summary

TP-Link Systems Inc. is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer – Cloud Services to join its Cloud Services Quality Engineering team in Irvine, CA.

You will contribute to quality planning, develop automated testing solutions, and help ensure reliable delivery of scalable cloud services across our networking and smart‑home ecosystem. You will collaborate with software engineers, architects, and product managers to expand expertise in cloud‑native technologies, microservices, and large‑scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 2–5 years of experience in software quality engineering, backend system testing, or cloud service testing.
• Solid understanding of software testing principles and experience testing backend APIs and services.
• Understanding of microservices architectures and distributed systems, with the ability to analyze service interactions and develop effective test coverage.
• Experience testing RESTful APIs and validating backend services using API testing tools, databases, and log analysis.
• Experience testing applications deployed on AWS or other public cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in Python or Java, with experience developing, extending, and maintaining automated test frameworks and test suites.
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and modern cloud deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with performance, scalability, reliability, and resiliency testing concepts and tools.

Responsibilities

• Support quality planning, test strategy development, and test execution for cloud service projects and backend systems.
• Collaborate with senior engineers during requirement analysis, architecture reviews, and design discussions to identify quality risks and ensure testability of microservices and distributed systems.
• Design and develop test plans, test cases, and testing approaches based on business requirements, system architecture, and risk analysis.
• Validate cloud services through API, functional, integration, database, regression, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Investigate software issues using APIs, databases, logs, metrics, and distributed system workflows to isolate failures, support root cause analysis, and verify fixes.
• Execute and extend automated test scripts for API, integration, and end‑to‑end suites using Python or Java, leveraging AI‑assisted development and testing tools to improve test automation and engineering productivity.
• Assist with performance, scalability, reliability, and resiliency testing to help validate cloud services under varying workloads.
• Partner closely with software engineers, product managers, and architects throughout the software development lifecycle to deliver high‑quality releases.

Skills

Python

Java

REST API testing

CI/CD

Git

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQL databases

Job description

TP-Link Systems Inc. is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer – Cloud Services to join its Cloud Services Quality Engineering team in Irvine, CA.

You will contribute to quality planning, develop automated testing solutions, and help ensure reliable delivery of scalable cloud services across our networking and smart‑home ecosystem. You will collaborate with software engineers, architects, and product managers to expand expertise in cloud‑native technologies, microservices, and large‑scale