Cloud QA Engineer: Automation & Backend APIs

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401k contributions

Paid vacation 15 days

11 holidays

Bi-annual raises

Gym membership

Team-building events

Job summary

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

You will contribute to quality initiatives for cloud platforms powering millions of connected devices and users worldwide. You will develop automated testing solutions, test plans, and participate in performance and reliability testing, collaborating with software engineers, product managers, and architects to deliver high-quality cloud

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a 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.

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

Backend API testing

Cloud testing

Automation testing

Python/Java programming

CI/CD basics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Splunk

Kibana

Grafana

Prometheus

CloudWatch

Job description

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

You will contribute to quality initiatives for cloud platforms powering millions of connected devices and users worldwide. You will develop automated testing solutions, test plans, and participate in performance and reliability testing, collaborating with software engineers, product managers, and architects to deliver high-quality cloud