Top Software Test Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Design and maintain automated testing frameworks for cloud-scale distributed systems. Build performance, load, stress, integration, API, end-to-end, chaos, security, and infrastructure tests. Integrate continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines, analyze observability data, validate Kubernetes and microservices environments, and collaborate with Engineering and SRE teams to improve reliability. The role also participates in on-call rotations and helps establish QA strategy and standards across GPU infrastructure, serverless endpoints, storage, billing, and event-driven systems.

Build and maintain Hardware-in-the-Loop testing systems, write Python automation, integrate test equipment and hardware, and contribute to CI and testing infrastructure. Diagnose failures across software, hardware, and infrastructure while improving automated test reliability, speed, and scalability. The intern will collaborate with software, embedded, and hardware engineers, document testing practices, and gain experience integrating software with real and simulated mission-critical hardware.

Lead the Flight Test Automation Pod and establish technical direction for automated testing of autonomous drones. Design scalable frameworks and CI/CD pipelines spanning mobile, browser, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and real-world flight testing. Apply AI-assisted workflows to test generation, failure triage, and flight-log analysis. Define coverage metrics, improve test strategy, mentor engineers, and partner with software, flight test, and reliability teams to improve product quality and release confidence.

Own software and automated test systems for aircraft, docks, delivery pods, and subassemblies. Develop test automation, data pipelines, instrumentation interfaces, MES integration, production dashboards, and tester validation. Troubleshoot factory-floor hardware and software issues, define test criteria, coordinate vendor builds, and improve yield, false-fail rates, cycle time, uptime, and traceability across high-throughput manufacturing operations.

Design and own developer and test infrastructure for production-like environments. Build CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, data-generation tools, workload simulations, and infrastructure supporting integration, load, performance, and correctness testing. Enable AI coding agents to test and validate code autonomously while improving engineering velocity, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Collaborate with engineering teams to remove development bottlenecks and scale testing systems.

Own end-to-end quality for Salesforce AppExchange distributed systems. Design and execute functional, integration, UI, and API automation; create test plans; coordinate cross-product testing; monitor quality metrics; investigate production issues; and collaborate with developers, product managers, UX, customers, and scrum teams. The role also involves AI-assisted testing, on-call support, agile delivery, customer scenario analysis, and mentoring through code and design reviews.

Build and own software for robot provisioning, calibration, manufacturing validation, service testing, and startup self-checks. Diagnose failures across hardware, firmware, and software; define subsystem pass/fail criteria; create technician-facing workflows; and drive root-cause fixes and process improvements with robotics, manufacturing, hardware, firmware, perception, and controls teams.

Develop and maintain automated UI and API testing frameworks and suites across platforms and devices. Plan and execute functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing; analyze failures, investigate defects, monitor CI/CD jobs, and communicate quality risks. Collaborate with engineering, product, and QE teams to improve coverage, automation, tooling, and release readiness. The role also involves AI evaluation tooling, model monitoring, and human-in-the-loop review workflows.

Leads development of large-scale software and hardware-in-the-loop testing frameworks for autonomous vehicle systems. Designs CI pipelines, regression automation, log-mining tools, and performance dashboards; performs safety requirement gap analysis and validates safety-critical monitors. Conducts root-cause analysis for system failures and provides technical mentorship. The role requires deep HIL/SIL expertise, Python development, real-time systems knowledge, and experience with automated testing infrastructure.

Develop and maintain large-scale software- and hardware-in-the-loop testing frameworks for autonomous vehicle systems. Build CI pipelines, automated regression suites, log-mining tools, and performance dashboards. Lead root-cause analysis, safety requirement gap assessments, fault injection, and validation of safety-critical monitors. The role requires extensive Python development, test automation, Linux and networking knowledge, and collaboration on safety and release sign-off.

Founding quality engineering leader responsible for defining testing strategy, building cross-platform test automation infrastructure, establishing release quality processes, and manually testing new requirements. The role evaluates nondeterministic AI outputs, performance, resource usage, and synthetic test data. It also offers the opportunity to hire and mentor future QA engineers while collaborating with internal teams, users, and partners.

Lead software quality engineering across teams by building shared automation frameworks, testing standards, and quality strategies. Define reliable parallel testing, synthetic-data controls, PHI safeguards, gating, failure classification, and exploratory testing practices. Set testability and non-functional quality requirements, improve feedback signal and flake management, and guide AI-assisted testing with human oversight. Influence engineering direction, mentor teams, and assess residual risk across complex distributed systems.

The Senior SDET develops and maintains regression automation, performs manual and automated testing across smoke, integration, performance, and regression scenarios, and documents defects and test results. The role collaborates with product and customer-facing teams throughout the SDLC, contributes to planning and quality processes, maintains GitHub automation repositories, identifies quality risks, and participates in on-call support.

Develop and maintain automated tests, CI/CD pipelines, and API test frameworks for PlayStation SDK video codec software and hardware. Write C++ and Python test code, investigate failures, triage defects, validate performance, and collaborate with codec developers to expand coverage and resolve quality issues.

Develop scalable test automation frameworks, QA tools, and intelligent testing systems using Playwright, C#, and JavaScript/TypeScript. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, build end-to-end, integration, and performance solutions, and apply AI techniques to improve test generation and defect detection. Partner with engineering and QA teams, troubleshoot reliability issues, contribute to test strategy, and mentor colleagues on automation and modern testing practices.

Designs and maintains automated and manual testing strategies, test suites, and test plans. Identifies and tracks defects, performs API, load, and performance testing, and contributes to feature development and bug fixes. Provides testing guidance, participates in code reviews and planning, supports release quality decisions, and promotes software quality across cross-functional teams.

Own the team’s quality strategy, automation architecture, test frameworks, synthetic-data safeguards, CI feedback, and non-functional testing. Design reliable testing for concurrency, asynchronous workflows, and distributed services; diagnose failures across product, automation, data, and environments; and establish AI-assisted quality practices with human oversight. Define risk-based verification, exploratory testing, PHI protections, testability requirements, and residual-risk communication while partnering with Engineering, Product, and Platform.

Own test strategy for a portfolio of government web applications, build automated regression suites, integrate testing into CI/CD, and lead four test engineers. The role replaces manual regression, improves release confidence and delivery speed, and embeds security into development pipelines. Responsibilities include coaching government testers and engineers, communicating readiness to nontechnical stakeholders, and supporting adoption of sustainable testing practices in a U.S. Air Force environment.

Designs and maintains automated test frameworks for Keeper Secrets Manager APIs, SDKs, integrations, and cloud services. Builds API, integration, and end-to-end tests; integrates automation with CI/CD pipelines; manages Docker and Kubernetes test environments; validates authentication workflows; analyzes failures; and partners with engineering and DevOps teams to improve system testability, reliability, and security.

Design and scale automated test frameworks for Akamai’s custom Linux kernel, hardware compatibility, performance, reliability, security, and OS imaging. Develop hardware validation suites, support kernel and virtualization upgrades, troubleshoot low-level system issues, and improve continuous integration and testing infrastructure across AI and compute platforms.

Build and maintain cloud-native applications and services for Akamai’s IaaS platform. Develop platform features from requirements through design, testing, and deployment; integrate Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies; collaborate with product owners, architects, developers, and test engineers in an Agile continuous-delivery environment. The role focuses on creating scalable, reliable, secure platforms that simplify product development and user experience.

Designs and implements manual and automated tests across unit, component, integration, and end-to-end levels. Builds scalable UI and API automation frameworks, conducts performance and load testing, creates test reports, investigates regressions, and provides testability feedback. Collaborates with engineering, product management, and UX teams in an agile environment. The role requires Python and JavaScript automation expertise, cloud and container experience, CI/CD familiarity, SQL, and knowledge of microservices.

Designs, develops, and maintains automated software testing frameworks for embedded and real-time medical device systems. Develops Python and Shell/Bash test automation, integrates testing with continuous integration workflows, executes functional and risk-based testing, investigates failures, documents defects, and supports FDA-regulated verification and validation. Collaborates with software, systems, electrical, and quality teams, performs code reviews, improves test infrastructure, and mentors engineers.

Build and maintain developer tools for builds, testing, code review, merging, and coding agents. Improve build speed, test reliability, failure explanations, automated reviews, and secure release processes. Use developer feedback, surveys, logs, metrics, and traces to identify problems and measure improvements. Collaborate with engineers through documentation, code reviews, and working sessions while independently delivering clearly defined projects.

Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks, test plans, and scripts for customer-facing applications. Review requirements, execute tests, track defects, monitor automation jobs, maintain CI pipelines, and report quality status to stakeholders. The role supports software reliability, usability, and player experience while collaborating with infrastructure, product, and distributed engineering teams.