QA Engineer: Software Developer in Test

Title: QA Engineer: Software Developer in Test

Industry: Autonomous Vehicle / Technology

Location: Foster City, CA

Duration: Approximately 6 months

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites for backend APIs, background workers, and microservices across development, staging, pre-production, and production environments.
• Develop performance and load tests using K6 or equivalent, including realistic data-driven scenarios against REST APIs at scale.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and release workflows; support release validation, regression sign-off, and production rollouts.
• Validate release-critical behavior, including data consistency, schema migrations, API contracts, cross-service integrations, and new feature or defect-fix functionality.
• Monitor release health through dashboards, logs, and test results; triage failures, identify quality trends, collaborate with engineering, and document test plans and release criteria.

Requirements

• Strong Python and/or TypeScript proficiency for test automation, API testing, and data validation; experience with REST testing frameworks such as pytest or requests and schema/contract validation.
• Hands-on experience with performance and load testing tools such as K6 or Locust, plus SQL proficiency for quality-data analysis, metrics, and triage.
• Familiarity with staged software delivery, version tags, environment promotion, production change management, Git, code review workflows, and CI systems.
• Ability to debug distributed services in containerized environments using logs, health checks, and basic cluster tooling; familiarity with observability, cloud data stores, or workflow orchestration is advantageous.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; experience in QA, release management, software quality metrics, high-availability SaaS, or geospatial/mapping platforms is preferred.

Skills

• Test Automation
• Python
• TypeScript
• REST API Testing
• pytest
• K6
• Performance Testing
• CI/CD
• SQL
• Distributed Systems

Hourly rate is commensurate with experience and is an estimated range provided by WorkGenius.

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