About the role:
Our Telematics team takes real-time signals from our IoT devices deployed in vehicles (think: GPS, Engine RPM, Fuel Levels and hundreds more) and processes them to help our customers make their vehicle fleets safer, greener, and more efficient. We also seek to cultivate a quality culture that produces best-in-class product reliability, usability, and performance across all of our product development teams.
We're looking for a self-driven, experienced Quality Automation Engineer for our Telematics Engineering team who has a real passion for quality and strives to innovate and try new things, incorporating continuous improvement of testing methods.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
- You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world's physical operations.
- You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
- You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
- You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.
In this role, you will:
- Be a part of a development team, quickly understand the product, the architecture and come up with a plan to test/validate functionality, and identify and target weaknesses.
- Be a part of the development process, collaborating with the engineering and product teams to discover details of proposed functionality, spotting gaps/conflicts and understanding upcoming work.
- Rapidly diagnose issues and perform root cause analysis with backend, mobile, and full-stack developers.
- Execute manual and automated test plans across the backend, mobile and web.
- Develop test fixtures using a hands-on approach to shift from a manual end-to-end testing environment to an automated one.
- Design, write and deliver high-quality test fixtures, frameworks and build tools to production standards as part of team sprints.
- Document, structure and maintain automated test cases and code used for test execution.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Minimum requirements for the role:
- 4+ years of experience in a quality engineering function.
- 2+ years of experience in developing test suites using QA automation tools like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress etc.
- 1+ year of experience in developing/improving test tooling and frameworks.
- Proficiency with programming and querying languages: TypeScript, Python, SQL.
- Proven abilities for effective troubleshooting, debugging and performing root cause analysis.
- Strong communication skills, comfortable working with distributed teams from diverse backgrounds.
An ideal candidate also has:
- Experience working in teams operating in the Compliance domain.
- Experience working in the automotive or transportation industry domains.
- Proficiency with programming and querying languages: GoLang.
