Test Engineer

Job Title - Test Engineer

Job Location - Foster City, CA

Job Duration - 6 months

Test Engineer – Central Task Manager (CTM)

On-site in Foster City, CA or San Diego, CA | 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 — Client's 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 CTM's 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:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 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 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, WebSockets patterns.