Software Quality Assurance Tester

Role Outline

Engineered Arts is looking for a QA tester to join the software team. You’ll be challenged with developing and supporting our deployment and testing processes for all the robots. The focus will be on improving and maintaining the high quality of our uniquely amazing humanoid robots through designing and implementing tests, debugging and QA metrics. Hardware is at the centre of everything we do and this role will involve the support of hardware monitoring and issue detection. Our Falmouth headquarters is where we design, manufacture, commission and test every robot we sell. You will see how the robots evolve and improve from batch to batch, experiencing and testing each and every one.

Our internal motto is “Be Wow”. Our robots are wow and we bake wow into everything we do. We need your help to make sure the quality of our software is wow too!

Main Responsibilities

• Consistently and systematically testing robot behaviours both independently and by coordinating, monitoring and analyzing the outcome of “user-testing” sessions
• Analyse all identified issues in detail to: define steps to reproduce each issue before reporting, report the problem to the appropriate team with required context, create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases, to avoid regression
• Get hands-on with evaluating and improving existing test suites, workflows and procedures, monitoring and auto-reporting tools (in support of both hardware and software), manual test procedures and practices
• Define, improve and automate procedures for testing and commissioning of robots before they are delivered to customers
• Support robots in the wild, monitoring issues and making changes to test plans accordingly
• Be an advocate for best practices and work closely with the Software team to suggest, rapidly test, and implement any helpful process changes or new tools

Qualifications, Knowledge, Key Skills and Experience

Essential

• Use of Ubuntu or other Linux-based operating system
• Working with Python
• Experience working with git and CI/CD to maintain code quality and effective release management
• Diligent and organised working style, with clear communication of issues found
• Interest in conversational experiences driven by robots and large language models
• Experience with writing useful and efficient automated tests for software

Desirable

• Experience in a robotics or hardware-centric setting
• Experience in testing web UIs
• Strong understanding of test automation tools and methodologies

Useful

• Understanding of low-level / embedded systems
• Agile methodologies
• Experience with continuous deployment in cloud systems (particularly terraform)
• Experience with testing distributed systems relying on third-party services

About Engineered Arts

Engineered Arts is the leading manufacturer of full-size humanoid robots used for entertainment, education and communication. With 15 years of hardware and software development, our robots have been sold in over 30 countries worldwide with customers such as NASA, PwC, Cisco and many more. Our Ameca model which is well known and a social media viral success along with our ultra-realistic Mesmer range of animated figures continue to surprise and excite visitors at museums, theme parks, visitor attractions and trade shows as well as aid leading universities with AI and robotics research. Our robots are poised to break into the future mega-expansion service robot segment, with applications such as front of house, receptions, check-in desks, information points and PoS. We are also exploring how our humanoid robot technology can disrupt other robotics sectors such as the growing cobot sub-segment of the industrial robotics market.

Further to our hardware range we also offer our software for hardware SaaS solutions. Originally developed for our own robotic hardware through necessity as there are no off-the-shelf solutions, this software platform can be used to simplify the development and operation of 3rd party hardware, robotics or otherwise. Enabling full 3D sequence programming, high-level function programming, cloud connection, remote support services, application of hardware and software defined hardware as well as low level hardware control, sensor and audio interfaces and much more.

We are a team of dedicated engineers and creatives striving to develop the very best experiences for our customers. Our internal motto is ‘Be Wow ’, everything we do is fun, entertaining or surprising to encounter. We always push the boundaries of what is possible in humanoid robotics, researching and developing new systems and techniques to further their appeal. We explore and challenge the human perception of robots as well as the fear and discomfort and the excitement and joy life-like mechanical humanoids present.