Komatsu · 38 minutes ago
Quality Assurance Engineer III
Tucson, AZ
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level
6+ years expKomatsu is a world leader in manufacturing construction, mining, forestry, and industrial heavy equipment. As a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer – Autonomous Haulage System (AHS), you will engage with cross-disciplinary teams to design innovative automation products and ensure the quality of the AHS architecture through rigorous testing and collaboration with product management and engineering teams.
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Responsibilities
Maintain deep understanding of AHS architecture, dependencies, and safety constraints; translate this knowledge into risk-based test plans and automated coverage
Partner with product and engineering teams to extract, refine, and document functional + nonfunctional requirements; ensure each requirement has measurable acceptance criteria and automated validation
Own the end-to-end quality strategy—including functional, performance, security, and fail over testing—leveraging service virtualization, contract testing, and containerized environments to maximize parallel execution in CI/CD
Design, implement, and continuously enhance robust automation frameworks. Integrate tests seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines with infrastructure as code provisioning
Drive a shift left culture: embed test hooks at design time, manage test data versioning, and maintain high signal regression suites that execute on every merge
Lead execution of manual edge case and exploratory tests; automate everything else. Publish clear dashboards for pass/fail trends, defect escape rate, and MTTR; use metrics to guide continuous improvement
Facilitate blameless postmortems, identify systemic issues, and convert findings into preventative automated checks
Oversee compatibility matrices and deployment configurations, support field teams during installation, configuration, and on-site validation
Mentor engineers, champion coding standards for test development, and pilot new tools or methodologies that increase team productivity and product quality. Coordinate cross functional initiatives to mature quality practices enterprise wide
Be able to occasionally travel internationally
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software/Systems Engineering, or related discipline (Master's a plus)
6 + years combined experience in software / systems testing, with 4 + years focused on building and scaling test automation
Ability to take a project from scoping requirements to production operations
Leadership defining comprehensive test strategies for complex, distributed or real‑time systems
Proficient in at least one modern programming language used for automation (Java, Python, or C#); strong REST/gRPC API and UI automation experience
Hands‑on expertise with CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure‑as‑code for on‑demand test environments
Ability to mentor, influence, and up‑level QA and development teams
Excellent analytical, documentation, and cross‑functional communication skills
Ability to travel for up to 10% of the time
Preferred
5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Experience in event-driven microservices and REST API's
Experience with network protocols, network programming, and distributed application debugging and analysis
Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts
Company
Komatsu
Komatsu is a manufacturing company that specializes in the development of equipment for the construction industry.
10001+ employees
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