Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Experience: 8–12 Years
Employment Type: Full-time (Permanent)
Location: Japan
Notice Period: Immediate Joiner / Short Notice Preferred
Language Requirement: Japanese proficiency required
We are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with 8-12 years of hands-on experience testing mechatronic and robotic systems. This role is an individual contributor position, focused on designing and executing tests, building automation rigs, debugging failures, and driving subsystem and system-level validation. You will collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, and software teams to ensure robust, reliable robotics solutions.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Execute manual and automated validation of electronics, mechanical, and integrated robotic subsystems.
- Design and implement automation test rigs and hardware-in-the-loop setups for subsystem/system testing.
- Write, maintain, and execute automation scripts and test tooling (Python preferred, C++ as secondary).
- Perform root cause analysis of failures across hardware, firmware, and software boundaries.
- Contribute to test planning and provide feedback on system specifications.
- Collaborate with QA leads and cross-functional engineers to integrate test coverage into development cycles.
- Generate test reports, defect logs, and regression analyses to track system quality.
- Support continuous improvement of QA practices, tools, and test infrastructure.
Minimum Qualifications (Must-Have)
- 8-12 years of QA/testing experience with mechatronic, robotic, or embedded hardware systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical, or related Engineering fields.
- Hands-on experience in manual validation of electronics and mechanical subsystems.
- Proven experience building and executing automation rigs / HIL test environments.
- Strong skills in Python test automation and working knowledge of C++.
- Proficiency in Linux systems, CI/CD pipelines, and version control (Git).
- Strong debugging skills across hardware-firmware-software interactions.
Preferred Qualifications (Good To Have)
- Experience with ROS, robotics simulations, and HWIL setups.
- Understanding of embedded electronics and system reliability testing.
- Familiarity with QA frameworks such as Pytest, Selenium/Playwright, JUnit, or TestNG.
- Prior experience in QA for robotics, automation equipment, or hardware products.
- ISTQB certification (Foundation or Advanced).
- Exposure to additional CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI).
- Japanese language proficiency (nice to have).
Benefits
- International working environment
- Bleeding edge technology
- Working with exceptionally talented engineers
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