Quality Assurance Engineer - Autonomous Forklift Solutions

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Job Description

Our Tokyo Engineering team is changing gears to meet the growing needs of our customers - from a handful of robots to hundreds of robots; from a small team to multiple squads. The team works closely with some of the premier enterprise customers in Japan to build state-of-the-art robotics solutions by leveraging rapyuta.io, our cloud robotics platform, and the surrounding ecosystem. The team’s mission is to pioneer scalable, collaborative, and flexible robotics solutions.

This role includes: testing with real automated forklifts in a physical environment, testing virtual robots in a simulated environment, automating API tests, and automating systems level testing.

The ideal candidate is someone who is interested in working in a hands-on role with state-of-art robots.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in reviewing and analyzing the system specifications to define test cases
• Creating and maintaining test plans
• Executing test plans in a simulated environment and on hardware
• Defect tracking and generating bug and test reports
• Preparing test data
• Participating in implementing and improving QA processes
• Implementation of test automation for robotics systems

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• 3 years of technical experience in software Quality Assurance as an Individual Contributor
• Bachelor degree in engineering, or combination of equivalent education and experience
• Experience writing, maintaining and executing test cases, both manual and automated
• Demonstrated experience with Python/Java testing frameworks
• Expertise in Linux ecosystem
• Advanced knowledge of testing approaches: test levels; BDD/TDD; blackbox/whitebox approaches; regression testing
• Knowledge and practical experience of Agile principles and methodologies such as SCRUM
• HTTP API testing experience
• English language proficiency

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of HWIL, simulations, ROS
• Experience with developing/QA for robotics or hardware products will be a plus.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as TestNG, JUnit, Pytest, Playwright, Selenium, or similar tool
• ISTQB certification
• Japanese language proficiency
• Proficiency with version control repositories such as git
• Understanding of CI/CD systems such as: GHA; Jenkins; CircleCI

About the Company

Rapyuta Robotics is a global technology startup that builds cloud robotics solutions. Their goal is to empower lives through connected machines so humans can focus on intellectually challenging and creative work. They have around 110 employees across their offices in Japan and India.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• International working environment
• Cutting edge technology