QA Release Engineer

Embedded Release Engineer

Onsite in Foster City, CA | 5 days in office As an Embedded Release Engineer at Client, you will play a critical role in our software quality and delivery by driving process improvements to the Perception development process. You will work with machine learning engineers and cross-functionally with other teams as a force multiplier to improve their development process from idea to implementation to testing to deployment.

This is a critical role to squash inefficiencies in our development process, improve the development experience for everyone in the software organization, and ultimately bring our autonomous vehicles to market sooner. In this role, you will:

• Conduct manual and automated testing of software applications and identify any potential risks or issues.
• Analyze PR from developer
  - Perform functional, regression, integration, performance testing.
• Triage the scenarios that the system flags for review.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., developers, product managers, and designers) / highlight impact of performance regressions.
• Report and track regressions / defects in an organized manner.
• Continuously improve QA processes to ensure no performance degradation.
• Conduct root cause analysis for defects and work with the development team to ensure timely resolutions.
• Validate fixes and improvements with comprehensive re-testing and ensure changes do not introduce new regressions.
• Provide clear and concise test reports, highlighting risks, issues, and test progress.
• Support merge process (infra, pipedream jobs, first pass scenario triage, etc)
• Increase developer velocity while infra improvements are underway.
• Help get PR s through the PR validation process.

Qualifications:

Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience. Proven experience, at least 6 years, as a QA Engineer or similar role in software quality assurance. Experience with both manual and automated testing methodologies. Familiarity with testing tools such as, Test Rail, or equivalent. Strong understanding of various testing methodologies (functional, regression, performance, integration, etc.) Experience with issue tracking and project management tools like Jira.

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a focus on teamwork.

About us:

At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R
- Results Matter, A
- Approachable, C
- Care, and E
- Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.