QA Engineer

Vertex Sigma Software

Foster City (CA)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)

Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)

Training & Development

Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)

Free breakfast and lunch

Job summary

Vertex Sigma Software is seeking a QA Engineer in Foster City, CA. This role involves designing and executing test plans for backend services related to autonomous fleet management systems. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's in engineering, 3+ years of quality assurance experience, and proficiency in Python. Bonus qualifications include familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker. Benefits include a health care plan, life insurance, and paid time off.

Qualifications

3+ years of experience in quality assurance.
Experience writing scripts that exercise workflows.
Understanding API documentation and specifications.

Responsibilities

Design and implement test plans for backend services.
Validate functionality of APIs and services.
Develop and execute automated test scripts.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Python

API testing

Workflow scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in an engineering, math, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Java

Kotlin

Job description

QA Engineer

Onsite in Foster City, CA | 5 days in office

The Quality Assurance team is actively seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to help ensure that our backend services are optimized, secure, and offer the highest level of reliability for our autonomous fleet management systems.

Our robots carry out critical missions such as rideshare trips, charging, cleaning and also provide rider interactions like authentication, ingress, and egress. The efficient performance of these tasks directly depends on the robustness of our backend infrastructure. As a QA Engineer, you will play an instrumental role in securing the high‑quality operation of our systems, affecting the riders' experience and the overall efficiency of our autonomous fleet management.

Responsibilities

Design and implement test plans and procedures for our backend services, which include ride hailing, autonomous charging, cleaning, fleet monitoring and coordination applications.

Validate and verify the functionality and efficiency of APIs, services and data models intended for use by rider mobile apps, robots and fleet management tools, and support the integration of these clients. Test the vehicle agent component that bridges communication between vehicle components and the backend service to ensure the communication is efficient and robust.

Develop and execute automated test scripts that simulate multi‑agent coordination, resource allocation, planning, and optimization workflows for a fleet of autonomous vehicles.

Work closely with the development team to ensure that the backend systems are scalable, observable and fault tolerant.

Lead independent activities such as ZPT triage, root cause analysis, release testing and process improvement, and contribute to developing products that impact humans and their experience in autonomous vehicle ride.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in an engineering, math, or related field.

3+ years of experience in quality assurance.

Experience with Python.

Experience writing scripts that exercise workflows.

Experience with APIs.

Understanding API documentation and specifications.

Experience analyzing backend logs for triaging issues and inclusion in bug reports.

Able to lead independent activities such as root cause analysis, process improvement, etc.

Bonus Qualifications

Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Java, Kotlin.

Masters degree in computer science or related degree.