QA Engineer II - Hardware Test & Automation

Socket.dev; Westborough (MA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon RDPI hardware test engineering seeks a Quality Assurance Engineer II to design and execute system-level tests for complex packaging automation and robotics. You will develop reusable test solutions, mentor junior QEAs, and drive quality improvements across multiple engineering teams in North America.

The role emphasizes test plan creation, automation, and defect analysis, with extensive collaboration, travel to fulfillment centers, and a focus on measurable quality KPIs.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of quality assurance engineering experience.
• Experience in automation testing.
• Experience in manual testing.
• Experience as QA lead on medium to large sized projects.

Responsibilities

• Create, execute, and optimize comprehensive test plans for difficult system-level functional verification (L1) scenarios involving multiple engineering teams and product components.
• Design reusable, reliable, and efficient test solutions (scripts, tools, automation) that minimize hardware resource usage and execution time.
• Assess the testability of product components and features (instrumentation, modularity, APIs) and identify salient test cases with traceability to use cases.
• Develop test plans that include non-functional areas (e.g., performance, load, scalability, usability).
• Define test requirements, clear blockers, and upscale appropriately; mitigate quality risks proactively.
• Work to discover defects early and prevent them from occurring; drive analysis of post-release quality and defect escapes, propose solutions, and implement improvements.
• Identify root causes of product quality problems and isolate the smallest set of steps to reproduce issues.
• Write test scripts and automated test cases that provide effective end-to-end coverage; ensure automation is reliable, reusable, and considers legacy impact.
• Optimize test plans, automated solutions, and QA metrics to improve team efficiency, product quality, and launch/time to production.
• Work with team owners to ensure code, components, and features are tested at the appropriate level (unit, integration/functional, UI), reducing unnecessary test cases that lead to intermittent issues or increased execution time.
• Actively participate in design discussions, planning, retrospective reviews, bug triage, and prioritization processes.
• Establish a quality bar in collaboration with your team and project teams; measure quality quantitatively against defined KPIs.
• Mentor and develop junior QAEs (QATs and QAE Is) - guide them on products, testing approaches, test solutions, and how they are constructed and used.
• Help recruit and interview for the team
• Clearly document work for future generations of testers; maintain and expand lab infrastructure as needed
• Travel to Amazon fulfillment centers across North America to execute tests and collect data (75% travel required)
• Make trade-offs: own time available vs. test solution extent across concurrent test program

Skills

Quality Assurance

Automation testing

Manual testing

QA leadership

Tools

Selenium

Appium

Job description

Amazon RDPI hardware test engineering seeks a Quality Assurance Engineer II to design and execute system-level tests for complex packaging automation and robotics. You will develop reusable test solutions, mentor junior QEAs, and drive quality improvements across multiple engineering teams in North America.

The role emphasizes test plan creation, automation, and defect analysis, with extensive collaboration, travel to fulfillment centers, and a focus on measurable quality KPIs.