Join a high-performing team at Sonatus that’s redefining what cars can do in the era of Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV).
At Sonatus, we’re driving the transformation to AI-enabled software-defined vehicles. Traditional automotive software methods can’t keep pace with consumer expectations shaped by the mobile industry—where features evolve rapidly, update seamlessly, and improve continuously. That’s why leading OEMs trust Sonatus to accelerate this shift. Our technology is already in production across more than 5 million vehicles on the road today and rapidly expanding.
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, with 250+ employees worldwide, Sonatus combines the agility of a fast-growing company with the scale and impact of an established partner. Backed by strong funding and proven by global deployment, we’re solving some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the industry. Join us and help redefine what’s possible as we shape the future of mobility.
We are in an accelerated growth phase and seeking a highly motivated, accomplished, and driven Senior Cloud QA Test Engineer to join our expanding team. As part of a collaborative cross-functional team responsible for the entire software development life cycle, you will have the exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and products, contributing from conception to deployment.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Help support post customer site issues verification.
- Working with FAE & CE team members to troubleshoot & identify issues.
- Develop detailed test plans and execute test cases through automation and manual testing.
- Write integration tests for backend applications and tests for RESTful/GraphQL APIs.
- Working with cross functional teams on a daily basis.
- Project management testing priorities.
- Participating in a weekly project & bug triage meeting.
- Communicating with stakeholders if additional testing time is required.
- Working on the cloud backend, Kubernetes, and microservices to debug any cluster-related issues
- Design and execute test plans for applications leveraging AWS microservices (e.g., Lambda, SQS, API Gateway), ensuring services meet reliability, scalability, and performance requirements.
- Apply a basic understanding of Kubernetes concepts to monitor application health and deployment status, assisting in the debugging and triage of environment-related issues in containerized systems.
- Utilize debugging tools and logs (cloud-based and local) to efficiently identify, reproduce, and document defects within complex, distributed systems, providing clear root-cause analysis to development teams.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in Cloud testing and automated test automation of UI/API testing.
- Excellent knowledge of test methodologies.
- Python hands-on experience is required.
- Good knowledge of Web/UI testing and test automation (preferably by using the Playwright framework with Python)
- Familiarity with common test frameworks such as Pytest, or similar.
- Experience working on one of the UI automation tools - Selenium, Playwright.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes based infrastructure, docker.
- Experience working on Kafka or similar technology.
- Familiarity with Linux command line and knowledge of shell scripting.
- Good debugging skills, experience in identifying root causes of defects through thorough analysis and debugging.
- Experience with design and implementation of test tools for automation. Ability to develop and improve automation scripts.
- Experience with JIRA, Jenkins or similar tools.
- Excellent written and communication skills.
- Experienced working with customers directly.
- Automotive testing experience
- Kubernetes working knowledge is required
Benefits Offered:
- Competitive compensation and stock option offerings
- Time off (national holidays and statutory annual leave provisions apply)
- Health care plan (Medical, dental)
- Income protection and Life insurance benefits
- Pension plan
- Fitness Allowance
- Phone & internet reimbursement
- IT Equipment allowance
- Snack and drinks in office
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