Hiring: Software Quality Engineer Company: Lab37 Location: Los Angeles, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 13:10:11 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : C#, CI/CD, CloudWatch, Cypress, Docker, Event-Driven, Firmware, Git, Grafana, Integration Testing, Java, Kubernetes, Playwright, Prometheus, Protobuf, Python, SQL, Selenium, Sentry, Terraform, TypeScript About the job Experience: •7+ years of software quality, test engineering, or related experience, including ownership of complex test strategies or quality initiatives across multiple components. Required Skills: •Build the quality practices and systems that help connect kitchen teams, cloud services, and robotic production systems. As a Senior Software Quality Engineer, you will own test strategy, release validation, automation, and early issue triage across complex software and operational workflows. •Create and execute test strategies for complex product capabilities spanning user interfaces, backend services, cloud infrastructure, external integrations, and robot-adjacent systems. •Develop detailed test plans based on product requirements, technical designs, operational workflows, system dependencies, and potential failure modes. •Own and coordinate release checkout, including defining readiness criteria, validating critical workflows, documenting results, identifying blockers, and supporting go or no-go decisions. •Build and maintain automated tests for APIs, backend services, web applications, integrations, and end-to-end operational workflows. •Partner directly with product, culinary, and operations teams to understand real-world workflows, clarify requirements, and identify risks before release. •Test software for configuring, observing, and managing kitchen operations, including order intake, menus, recipes, tasks, alerts, and performance visibility. •Validate integrations with delivery and commerce platforms, including order intake, menu synchronization, order-state communication, retries, duplicate events, and partial failures. Qualifications: •Docker, Kubernetes, Protobuf, Terraform, Git, and continuous delivery systems. •Simulation environments, mocked or simulated backend services, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and integration testing. •SQL, analytics platforms, operational dashboards, or data-intensive product development. •Software that interacts with hardware, robotics, IoT, logistics, manufacturing, fulfillment, or other physical operations. •Building internal tools or operational software used in high-availability, real-time environments. •What Makes This Opportunity Different •Own meaningful quality, release, and test automation areas rather than executing a narrow set of test cases. •Your work directly affects physical production, daily kitchen operations, and the reliability of systems used by operators and customers. Compensation: •$180,000 - $230,000 / year •You may also be eligible for equity awards and an annual performance-based bonus •5 years, just in the US, the overall market has expanded 10X from $10B to $100B, and could expand to $500bn- $1T by 2030. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!