Robotics QA Engineer: Warehouse Automation & Simulation

Home Depot; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Home Depot is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to validate software for robotic warehouse operations. You will design tests, run simulations, and verify integrations with AMRs, WMS, and PLCs, ensuring performance under real-world conditions.

The role emphasizes test automation, hardware emulation, and release validation, with collaboration across software, robotics, product, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, Information Systems, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in software quality assurance, test automation, or systems validation.
• Experience testing distributed software systems.
• Experience with API and integration testing.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to understand complex operational workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute test plans, test cases, and validation procedures.
• Validate functionality across warehouse workflows, robotic fleet operations, inventory movement, and fulfillment processes.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Verify system behavior under normal operating conditions and exception scenarios.
• Document test results, defects, and quality risks.
• Build and execute simulation scenarios that mimic real-world warehouse operations.
• Validate software performance under high order volumes, peak periods, robot congestion, and network interruptions.
• Assist in maintaining digital twin environments representing customer deployments.
• Develop reusable operational test scenarios for release validation.
• Configure and maintain emulated warehouse environments.
• Validate integrations with AMRs, WMS, WES, barcode scanners, printers, PLCs, conveyors, and third-party APIs.
• Reproduce customer-reported issues using simulation and emulation environments.
• Develop automated test suites for APIs, workflows, integrations, and regression testing.
• Expand automated coverage across warehouse and robotics apps.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain test frameworks and automation infrastructure.
• Participate in code reviews for automated test development.
• Identify, document, and track software defects.
• Work with engineering teams to reproduce and diagnose issues.
• Perform root cause analysis for production incidents.
• Verify defect fixes and regression impacts.
• Provide quality assessments for release readiness.
• Participate in release certification activities.
• Execute operational acceptance testing.
• Assess release risk and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Validate customer-specific configurations before deployment.

Skills

Software QA

Test automation

API testing

Distributed systems

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Operational workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Robotics or related field

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

Home Depot is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to validate software for robotic warehouse operations. You will design tests, run simulations, and verify integrations with AMRs, WMS, and PLCs, ensuring performance under real-world conditions.

The role emphasizes test automation, hardware emulation, and release validation, with collaboration across software, robotics, product, and operations teams.