Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Engineer

Terawatt Infrastructure

8h • Remote

About The Position

Terawatt Infrastructure is at the forefront of the transition to autonomous and electric vehicles, requiring significant investment in energy and charging infrastructure. The company specializes in delivering large-scale, turnkey charging solutions for businesses deploying AV and EV fleets. Terawatt offers comprehensive solutions including capital, real estate, development, and site operations, aiming to simplify fleet electrification. The company's technology platform transforms sites into a reliable, intelligent network using advanced power management, operational optimization, and data-driven systems, providing performance guarantees. They operate at the intersection of software, hardware, real estate, energy systems, and live site operations, with code directly impacting physical infrastructure. The role is for a QA automation specialist who views test infrastructure as a critical engineering problem, capable of designing test coverage and building CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and orchestration. The ideal candidate is curious about AI-assisted tooling for testing and disciplined in validating its output. This role involves owning the framework for comprehensive testing, automation, and quality across the product ecosystem, working closely with software, hardware, and product development teams, and reporting to technology leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in a Quality Assurance role, delivering high-quality, reliable products to market.
• 4+ years of demonstrable experience designing automation frameworks and developing test automation software and tools.
• Demonstrable experience leading QA projects and initiatives.
• 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; and automation frameworks or tools such as Karate, Requests, HttpRunner, TestNG, or Fiddler.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines-as-code (e.g., GitHub Actions) — not just consuming pipelines someone else built.
• Experience containerizing test environments (Docker required; Kubernetes a plus) and provisioning ephemeral or on-demand test infrastructure.
• Coding skills: proficiency in Python required; shell scripting for pipeline and infrastructure tooling is a plus.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, technical aptitude, attention to detail; self-motivated and quick to learn new concepts, technologies, and products.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; highly detail-oriented.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or similar) for building reproducible test environments.
• Familiarity with performance, security, and accessibility testing.
• Familiarity with ETL testing, data quality frameworks, and advanced SQL is a plus.
• A plus: hands-on curiosity with AI-assisted QA tooling — self-healing locators, visual AI regression testing, or using LLMs to help generate and maintain test scripts and test data.

Responsibilities

• Own and extend the test automation framework across UI, API, and hardware-in-the-loop test surfaces, validating the larger design decisions with technology leadership, to enable high development velocity.
• Build and maintain the CI/CD test infrastructure — pipeline orchestration, containerized/ephemeral test environments, environment provisioning, and test parallelization — partnering with DevOps/SRE to keep it scalable, observable, and maintainable.
• Develop comprehensive test plans for software and hardware-in-the-loop product features; identify test scenarios, cases, and test data to ensure coverage for new and existing features.
• Maintain test cases and scripts in the Test Management System; analyze test results to help developers address underlying issues.
• Monitor production bugs to identify root causes, expand test coverage to minimize escapes and provide reports on product quality metrics.
• Triage automation failures, identify gaps between existing tests and the automation framework, and implement solutions to keep the system reliable and performant.
• Design and execute performance and scale testing, security testing, and user experience testing as requirements demand.
• Evaluate, pilot, and introduce AI-assisted testing tools — e.g., self-healing test automation, visual AI regression testing, LLM-assisted test authoring — to increase coverage and cut maintenance overhead, while validating that their output actually meets Terawatt’s quality bar rather than accepting it uncritically.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software engineers on best practices for building and enhancing test suites, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams — Developers, SREs, Product Managers, and Operations — to validate end-to-end functionality.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Performance-based incentives (where applicable)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior