Software Engineer II (IN) Senior (Automation Testing with Gen AI)

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We are aggressively expanding our Edge AI capabilities with the upcoming rollout of our new NVIDIA Jetson Orin Edge Box deployments and their companion mobile applications. To ensure the robustness, scalability, and real-time performance of this complex ecosystem under heavy user load, we are establishing a dedicated Quality Assurance function. We need an experienced QA Test Lead to spearhead this initiative, define the overarching test strategy, and guide a specialized testing team.

We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic QA Test Lead to direct the validation of our next-generation AI ecosystem. In this role, you will own the end-to-end quality assurance strategy for a complex system that spans hardware, edge computing, and mobile platforms. You will lead the QA lifecycle for our NVIDIA Jetson Orin Edge Box deployments, companion Android and iOS applications, and the backend infrastructure. A large part of the job requires directing and executing extensive benchmarking of models running on edge devices, particularly understanding system behavior under heavy concurrent usage. The ideal candidate possesses a strong blend of team leadership, advanced automation architecture skills, performance testing expertise, and the ability to drive a forward-looking approach to utilizing AI tools in the QA process.

Leadership & Test Strategy: Define, own, and execute the comprehensive test strategy for the Edge AI and Mobile ecosystem. Lead, mentor, and task-manage QA automation engineers, guiding them in best practices for script development and testing methodologies. Act as the primary QA point of contact, collaborating cross-functionally with product managers, ML researchers, and hardware engineers to establish quality gates and acceptance criteria. Provide clear reporting on quality metrics, test coverage, and release readiness to senior management and stakeholders. Edge Device Validation & Benchmarking (NVIDIA Jetson Orin): Lead the validation of deployment, stability, and inference accuracy of AI models running on NVIDIA Jetson Orin edge devices. Oversee and conduct extensive benchmarking of AI model performance. Evaluate system impact, thermal performance, and inference latency when a high number of concurrent users are accessing the edge device to run various models. Data Augmentation & Computer Vision Testing: Direct the use of OpenCV to augment video test data, creating synthetic conditions and edge cases not included in originally captured test datasets to ensure highly robust model validation. Establish workflows for utilizing automated video annotation tools (such as CVAT) to build, manage, and refine ground truth datasets for testing. Mobile App Testing (Android): Architect comprehensive manual and automated testing strategies for companion Android applications. Ensure rigorous validation of UI/UX, BLE/Wi-Fi connectivity with the edge box, and real-time data streaming capabilities. Automation Framework Architecture: Design the architecture for robust, scalable automated test frameworks for both mobile (Appium, Espresso) and embedded Linux/Edge platforms (Python, Pytest). Drive