Responsibilities

• Build the QA/Test Department - assist in building staffing needs, recruiting and interviewing, personnel development, and leading and mentoring the team
• Build tools and frameworks that automate hardware and software testing activities.
• Create Test Plans for Integrated Product and Sub-components
• Advise and mentor junior staff both in the QA department and other functional engineering teams
• Create automated tests and procedures capable of revealing issues promptly and clearly 
• Develop and evolve a test/QA approach and culture which are appropriate for Pickle’s scale of product development, customer engagement and funding over time.
• Create processes and structure to enable clear communication of bugs and performance deficiencies to relevant engineering teams
• Maintain an up to date understanding of best practices and employ this knowledge to raise the quality of delivery across the engineering team.
• Collaborate with engineers working on features to develop tests to accurately and effectively test these features
• Work with the product team to understand business and functional requirements, such that a high level of reliability can be tested for and achieved in each release.
• Establish and maintain a QA process that enables hand off of the current release of the product to product operations/deployment

Requirements

• 5+ years of previous experience designing, automating, and executing, integration, performance, and scalability testing
• Prior hands on test/QA experience with autonomous mechatronic systems either at the system level or test architect level
• Prior experience with testing machine-learning based systems a plus
• Experience with Python and Javascript/Typescript
• Experience with a standard DevOps toolset (Docker, CircleCI, GitHub, and Terraform are a plus)
• Prior experience integrating hardware into an automated testing environment
• Prior experience with specifying/designing bespoke test hardware is a plus
• 1-2 years experience in people management.to include experience in hiring, promotions, and performance management.
• Expertise in automation frameworks and authoring comprehensive test suites from business and functional requirements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in working in agile environments
• Expertise in the usage of bug tracking and Test management tools
• Familiarity with Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001, etc.)