Software Quality Assurance Engineer

About the role

The QA Engineer will play a crucial role in testing and ensuring the quality of Instrumental's manufacturing AI solutions. This includes hardware testing, end-to-end UX testing, and contributing to the development of robust cloud platforms, ML/AI pipelines, and edge applications.

Responsibilities

• Test hardware and end-to-end UX for web and mobile applications
• Guardian of quality end-to-end, ensuring customer satisfaction and alignment with project and business priorities
• Influence QA approaches and systems towards quality, contributing to the success of the company mission
• Work in a fast-paced, iterative environment, participating in the fulfillment of the company mission to eliminate half of the inefficiencies in manufacturing
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, bringing a strong voice in product, UX, and engineering review sessions

Requirements

• Minimum 3+ years of QA experience with web and/or mobile applications
• Proven experience writing and executing test cases that align with customer values and project/business priorities
• Cares deeply about the end-to-end user experience and flags issues even when they're "to spec"
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Past experience working on cloud platforms and SaaS development lifecycles
• Experience with data-driven applications, including basic SQL and scripting capabilities
• Experience owning test automation and driving unit/integration/solution test automation coverage with development engineers
• Past experience testing data analysis and visualization software, with proficiency in writing statistical calculations

Qualifications

• Meticulous and passionate about improving electronics manufacturing
• Multi-faceted and technically savvy
• Organized and deeply customer-oriented

Skills

• Experience testing hardware
• End-to-end UX testing in software
• Experience testing data analysis and visualization software

Benefits

Instrumental offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Health, Vision, and Dental insurance
• Public Transit/Commuter plans
• Parental leave

Pay

$139,000 - $177,000 annually in the Bay Area

Schedule

Full-time