QA Engineer II (Autonomous Haulage System)

TL;DR

QA Engineer II (Autonomous Haulage System): Develop and maintain risk-based test plans and automation frameworks for fleet management systems in mining operations with an accent on functional, performance, security, and failover testing. Focus on integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, shift-left practices, and ensuring high reliability for distributed real-time systems under safety constraints.

Location: Tucson, Arizona, USA (onsite). Up to 10% travel, including international.

Company

World leader in manufacturing construction, mining, forestry, and industrial heavy equipment, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with operations in over 140 countries.

What you will do

• Maintain deep understanding of AHS architecture to create risk-based test plans and automated coverage.
• Partner with teams to refine requirements with measurable acceptance criteria and automated validation.
• Own end-to-end quality strategy using service virtualization, contract testing, and containerized environments in CI/CD.
• Design and enhance automation frameworks, embed test hooks early, and manage regression suites.
• Lead manual exploratory tests, publish dashboards for metrics, and facilitate blameless postmortems.
• Oversee compatibility, support field deployments, mentor engineers, and champion quality practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software/Systems Engineering, or related.
• 4+ years in software/systems testing, 2+ years in test automation.
• Proficient in Java, Python, or C#; strong REST/gRPC API and UI automation.
• Hands-on with CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure-as-code.
• Ability to lead test strategies for complex distributed/real-time systems and mentor juniors.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills; up to 10% travel.

Nice to have

• 3+ years full software development lifecycle experience.
• Event-driven microservices and REST APIs.
• Network protocols, programming, and distributed debugging.
• Excellence in technical communication.

Culture & Benefits

• Diverse and inclusive workforce reflective of communities served.
• Challenging environment for skill growth and career development.
• Commitment to innovation, sustainability, and shared purpose.