Robotics QA Engineer — End-to-End Testing & Automation

AlleyCorp; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Competitive salary

Equity options

Job summary

Civ Robotics is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer in San Francisco to own testing across robotics hardware and software, including Android apps, cloud services, and autonomous workflows.

You will collaborate with robotics, software, hardware, product, and field teams to identify issues early, improve reliability, and ensure releases are deployment-ready. Strong emphasis on automation, end-to-end testing, and real-world validation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in software QA, test automation, system testing, or a related role.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans and test cases for robotics products and applications.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end testing.
• Build and maintain automated testing infrastructure and test workflows.
• Test Android applications used to operate and configure robotic systems.
• Validate complete workflows such as robot connection, mission loading, operation, stopping, reporting, and configuration.
• Run tests using HITL/simulation environments as well as physical robotic systems.
• Develop and maintain long-running reliability and endurance tests, including overnight and multi-hour operation.
• Perform exploratory and randomized testing to identify unexpected failures and edge cases.
• Validate new features and releases and ensure existing functionality is not affected.
• Reproduce, document, and track issues with clear steps, logs, and supporting data.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to investigate failures and verify fixes.
• Continuously improve testing processes, automation coverage, and release quality.

Skills

Software QA

Test automation

Python scripting

Android testing

API testing

Linux / CLI

Log analysis

Git / CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field

Tools

Python

ROS/ROS2

Docker

CI/CD

Linux

Job description

Civ Robotics is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer in San Francisco to own testing across robotics hardware and software, including Android apps, cloud services, and autonomous workflows.

You will collaborate with robotics, software, hardware, product, and field teams to identify issues early, improve reliability, and ensure releases are deployment-ready. Strong emphasis on automation, end-to-end testing, and real-world validation.