Quality Assurance Engineer III

5 hours ago

Tucson, AZ, USASenior

Responsibilities

Maintain understanding of Autonomous Haulage System architecture, dependencies, and safety constraints and translate them into risk-based test plans and automated coverage.
Define and own end-to-end quality strategy spanning functional, performance, security, failover, exploratory, compatibility, and deployment testing.
Design, implement, and improve automation frameworks and integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and containerized environments.
Use service virtualization, contract testing, infrastructure as code, test hooks, versioned test data, and regression suites to maximize test coverage and execution speed.
Partner with product and engineering teams to refine requirements, define measurable acceptance criteria, and validate them automatically.
Publish quality dashboards covering pass/fail trends, defect escape rate, and MTTR, and use metrics to drive improvement.
Facilitate blameless postmortems and convert systemic findings into preventative automated checks.
Support field teams with installation, configuration, and on-site validation activities.
Mentor engineers, promote coding standards for test development, pilot productivity tools, and coordinate enterprise-wide quality initiatives.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, or a related discipline; a master’s degree is a plus.
At least 6 years of combined software or systems testing experience, including at least 4 years building and scaling test automation.
Ability to take projects from requirements scoping through production operations and define comprehensive strategies for complex, distributed, or real-time systems.
Proficiency in at least one automation programming language: Java, Python, or C#.
Strong REST/gRPC API and UI automation experience, plus hands-on experience with CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure as code.
Ability to mentor, influence, and develop QA and engineering teams, with strong analytical, documentation, and cross-functional communication skills.
Ability to travel internationally for up to 10% of the time.
Preferred: at least 5 years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
Preferred: experience with event-driven microservices, REST APIs, network protocols, network programming, and distributed application debugging and analysis.

The role offers a diverse and challenging work environment with opportunities to grow skills and career while contributing to a sustainable, clean-energy future.
Occasional international travel is required, up to 10% of the time.