Test Engineer

Location: Foster City CA or San Diego CA
Work Schedule: Onsite 5 Days in Office

We are seeking a Contract Test Engineer to join the Autonomous Vehicle Operations Software QA Team focusing on API integration testing performance testing and synthetic monitoring for CTM our clients mission-critical backend service that coordinates operational tasks and tickets across the autonomous vehicle fleet.

This role requires close collaboration with backend engineers QA leads and operations teams to ensure high-quality reliable releases.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop maintain and expand Playwright-based API integration tests (TypeScript) to enhance regression coverage across CTMs task ticket notification and scheduling workflows.
• Perform manual API testing for CTM features releases hotfixes and pre-merge validations.
• Monitor and triage synthetic test failures running on scheduled cron cycles against deployed environments.
• Support defect triage: identify reproduce and verify bugs across Dev Staging and Production.
• Collaborate with developers QA leads and product managers to ensure test completeness and release readiness.
• Provide QA sign-off for releases and ensure all validation activities meet defined quality standards.
• Document test results maintain traceability to requirements in TestRail and track issues to closure.
• Contribute to ongoing improvements in test infrastructure (testcontainers setup cleanup patterns CI pipeline via Bazel/Buildkite).

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or related field.
• 1-3 years of experience as a QA/Test Engineer with proven skills in testing large-scale complex backend services.
• Strong experience with TypeScript or JavaScript.
• Experience with API testing (REST) and tools like Postman curl or programmatic HTTP clients.
• Familiarity with testing tools like JIRA and TestRail.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Grafana Docker and Testcontainers for spinning up containerized test environments.
• Experience with Bazel or similar build systems.
• Understanding of event-driven systems and WebSocket patterns.