Test Automation Lead for Robotics

2 months ago


Falmouth, United Kingdom Engineered Arts Ltd Full time

Do you want to help build the future of humanoid robots?

Our internal motto is “Be Wow”, our robots are wow and we need our software to be wow too, we bake wow into everything we do, so you can help make sure the quality of our software is wow too

The role can be based either at our HQ in Cornwall or at our office in London.

Hybrid work possible, 2-3 days a week remote.

**Main Responsibilities**

Establish, maintain, and improve workflows to automate the testing of all the software we produce, across our stack:

- Operating System
- Frontend / UICloud backend and services
- High-level robot behaviours

Define, improve and automate procedures for testing and commissioning of robots before and after they are delivered to customers

Be an advocate for best practices and work closely with the Software team to suggest, rapidly test, and implement any helpful process changes or new tools.

Testing needs include functional, stress, and soak testing of both software and robots

**Desired Skills**

**Traits we are looking for**
- You can get to solutions fast yet leave well-structured and documented code behind
- You are intellectually curious and able to get through new territory quickly
- You are passionate about making amazing robots even more amazing
- You are open to ideas and have a positive attitude, a desire to help others, and a tendency to resolve issues without drama.

**Experience Requirements**

Essential
- Past experience as a developer, working with complex codebases in Python, C++ and working with databases.
- Similar lead role in Test Automation or QA.
- Strong understanding of test automation tools and methodologies
- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies
- Experience in testing the performance limit of web services under load
- Deep knowledge and familiarity with automated testing frameworks like Pytest, Selenium or Jmeter in build/deploy pipelines running a CI system like Gitlab or Jenkins.
- Deep knowledge and familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, shell scripting, CI/CD
- Experience with cloud platforms like GCP and AWS

Desirable knowledge
- Experience in testing web UIs using automated simulated browsers

Useful prior experience
- Robotics / ROS
- Agile methodologies and frameworks such as Scrum
- CMake, BitBake, Kas
- Testing of video games or other complex real-time software
- Experience programming in TypeScript
- Automated visual testing of 3D renders

**How to Apply**
- A short paragraph about something that you would like to see our Ameca robots being capable of doing in the near-ish future
- Your visa status (UK citizen; EU settled status; Currently on XYZ visa; etc)
- Your target salary expectations
- Your notice period, or when you would be able to start with us
- Your current location, and whether you would want to commute or relocate

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £50,000.00-£70,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Falmouth, Cornwall: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application question(s):

- What are your target salary expectations?
- Please confirm your current notice period (in weeks).

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (preferred)

Work Location: In person



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