Robotics Automation Engineer in Test

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own and drive quality strategy for the robotics and industrial automation software stack, including ROS2, C++, Python, Beckhoff TwinCAT, and Structured Text PLCs.
• Define, formalize, and maintain test plans, validation procedures, and release criteria for robotics and automation systems.
• Execute smoke tests, system validation, and acceptance testing of release candidates on production cells.
• Serve as release authority, approving or blocking promotion from release candidate to official production release.
• Deploy software and automation releases to production cells and support rollout activities.
• Automate testing and validation workflows to improve coverage, reliability, and release velocity.
• Run tests and experiments on production and development cells, independently or in collaboration with robotics and automation engineers.
• Triage and support cell-level issues, performing initial investigation and escalating to engineering teams as needed.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or comparable practical experience.
• Experience testing software systems, including writing test scripts or test code.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks or tools.
• Ability to debug issues across software and automation interfaces.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience testing industrial automation systems, robotics, or hardware-software integrated products.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, versioned deployments, and release validation.
• Experience supporting deployments and troubleshooting issues in production environments.