Senior QA Engineer

About Terawatt Infrastructure

The once in a century transition to autonomous and electric vehicles is underway and will require a multi-trillion-dollar investment in energy and charging infrastructure, and the real estate to site it on. Terawatt is the leader in delivering large scale, turnkey charging solutions for companies rapidly deploying AV and EV fleets. Whether it’s an urban mobility hub, or a carefully located multi fleet hub for semi-trucks, Terawatt brings the talent, capabilities, and capital to create reliable, cost-effective solutions for customers on the leading edge of the transition to the next generation of transport.

With a growing portfolio of sites across the US in urban hubs and along key logistics and transportation corridors and logistics hubs, Terawatt is building the permanent transportation and logistics infrastructure of tomorrow through a robust combination of capital, real estate, development, and site operations solutions. The company develops, finances, owns, and operates charging solutions that take the cost and complexity out of electrifying fleets. 

At Terawatt, we execute humbly and with urgency to provide tailored solutions for fleets that delight our clients and support the transition of transportation.

Role Description

You are enthusiastic about joining a transformative organization that sits at the intersection of climate impact, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, exceptional customer experiences, and technological innovation in a rapidly evolving industry.

Your unwavering commitment to quality and customer-centricity will contribute to our team’s refinement of solutions that meet the specific needs of our customers, while simultaneously upholding the reliability that is synonymous with the Terawatt brand.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with a highly skilled software, hardware, and product development team to deliver high-quality solutions that cater to the needs of both external and internal stakeholders. Directly collaborating with our technology leadership team, you will play a pivotal role in developing the framework for comprehensive testing, automation, and ensuring quality across our product ecosystem.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive test plans for software and hardware in loop product features.

• Identify test scenarios, test cases, and test data to ensure test coverage for new and existing features. 

• Maintaining test cases and scripts in the Test Management System. Analyze test results and investigate test escapes to identify root causes and provide detailed reports. 

• Triage test execution failures, identify gaps between existing tests and the automation framework, and implement solutions to ensure a highly reliable and performant system.

• Design and execute performance and scale testing, security testing, and user experience testing as requirements demand.

• Create a test automation strategy and build out the automation framework to enable high development velocity. 

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines to execute and report automated tests, ensuring seamless integration with deployment processes and that test infrastructure is maintainable and scalable within a dynamic CI/CD environment.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship for software engineers on best practices for building and enhancing test suites for their code, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, SREs, product managers, and operations, to validate end-to-end functionality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, electrical engineering, and related fields. 

• 7+ years of experience in a quality assurance role, delivering high quality, reliable products to market. 

• 3+ years of demonstrable experience designing automation frameworks and developing test automation software and tools.

• Demonstrable experience leading QA projects and initiatives.

• 3+ years of experience in QA of products that have hardware as part of the overall solution.

• Working knowledge of test methodologies, processes, and tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, JIRA, STLC, and Test Management tools like TestRail, ALM or Zephyr.

• Experience with automation frameworks or tools, like Karate, Selenium, Request, HttpRunner,  TESTNG, or Fiddler. 

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and how they relate to QA automation. 

• Strong knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB).

• Familiarity with performance, security, and accessibility testing. 

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, technical aptitude, attention to detail, must be self-motivated, willing to learn new concepts, technologies and products quickly. 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, highly detail-oriented.

• Familiarity with ETL testing, data quality frameworks, and advanced SQL is a PLUS.

• Coding skills: experience with Python

We are building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. At Terawatt, we continuously strive to foster inclusion, humility, energizing relationships, and belonging, and welcome new ideas. We're growing and want you to grow with us. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

If a reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of the position, please contact people@terawattinfrastructure.com.

Terawatt Infrastructure is an equal-opportunity employer.