Senior Cloud Software Engineer in Test

About Us

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software‑defined vehicles around the world.

The road to the future is uncharted. By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we’ll map a new way forward. Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.

Role Summary

Join our vehicle management service (VMS) integration Quality Assurance (QA) team, where you will assume a pivotal role in the testing and quality assurance of our Cloud, mobile application, and vehicle firmware. Utilizing automation, manual testing, or semi‑automated methods, you will contribute to the verification of software against established standards and the validation of its functionality.

The VMS Cloud Test Automation Engineer will design, implement, and scale automation for cloud‑native services that power our VMS platform. They will partner closely with developers, SRE, and product to ensure feature quality, service reliability, and fast delivery through robust test frameworks, reliable pipelines, and data‑informed quality gates.

In addition to testing, you are required to contribute to the development and enhancement of automated tools, internal tools, and infrastructure to support scalability. As a key team member, your responsibilities will extend beyond the validation of VMS, encompassing the initiation of improvements, the identification of issues, collaboration across teams, and the meticulous testing and verification of bug fixes until resolution. If you are passionate about QA, automation, the development of internal tools, and the delivery of high‑quality consumer solutions, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of automotive technology.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing internal tools to test cloud and cloud service, but also extend to vehicle firmware, mobile app, and web app. Such as automation framework for web or mobile, API Testing Framework, JMeter for performance testing, vehicle simulator, software to control hardware or Raspberry Pi, RF (BLE, UWB), and IOT devices
• Own the test automation strategy across service, integration, and end‑to‑end layers for VMS microservices and data flows.
• Build and maintain scalable automation frameworks for API, event‑driven, and contract testing that run locally and in CI/CD.
• Develop reliable, hermetic test environments using containers and infrastructure‑as‑code for reproducible results.
• Implement quality gates and test analytics within CI/CD to enforce release criteria and shorten feedback loops.
• Design non‑functional testing (performance, load, soak, resilience, and chaos) aligned to service SLOs and customer scenarios.
• Champion observability‑driven testing using logs, metrics, traces, and synthetic checks to detect regressions early.
• Lead data‑driven test design and synthetic data seeding for realistic, privacy‑safe scenarios.
• Define and automate service contracts and consumer‑driven contracts to protect integrations across services.
• Collaborate with engineers to make services more testable through fixtures, mocks, fakes, and feature flags.
• Create release validation playbooks and automate smoke and canary verifications for safe, incremental rollouts.
• Mentor peers on testing best practices, code reviews for testability, and continuous improvement of quality processes.
• Collaborating with the product and the development teams to create test strategies, test plans and test cases for app features. Ensuring quality and performance of application to specifications.
• Identifying potential problems and working with developers to resolve application bottlenecks. Supporting failure analysis and root cause analysis for test and integration issues
• Architecting, building and maintaining electronic parts and equipment on test benches and test vehicles – RxT and RxS
• Growing your skills with continual learning, workshops, conferences, and talks
• This position requires hands‑on physical interaction with the hardware and the Rivian vehicles in the office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master degree in Computer Science or Software/Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ year hands‑on experience on software development or test cycle.
• 3+ year hands‑on experience on software test cycle including test strategies, test plans and test cases from low level to high level software. Familiar with the test pyramid.
• Strong proficiency in test automation using a modern language such as Python, Java, or TypeScript.
• Hands‑on experience testing cloud‑native systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure, including containerized services.
• Expertise in API testing for REST and gRPC, including schema validation and negative/edge‑case coverage.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) and integrating tests into pipelines.
• Practical knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for running tests and managing ephemeral environments.
• Experience with observability (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) applied to test and release validation.
• Proven ability to design performance and resilience tests using tools such as k6, Locust, or JMeter.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, including timeouts, retries, backoff, and eventual consistency.
• Clear, collaborative communication with cross‑functional partners and a bias for automation and simplification.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced development environment.
• Organized, willing the share and guide others to improve, proactive.
• Passion to take software from development to a verified product.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with event streaming ecosystems such as Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub and consumer testing.
• Familiarity with contract testing frameworks like Pact or schema‑first API development with OpenAPI/Protobuf.
• Infrastructure‑as‑code with Terraform or Helm for reproducible test environments.
• Test data management and synthetic data generation for complex, multi‑entity scenarios.
• Security testing fundamentals and integrating SAST/DAST/SCA into CI/CD.
• Automated canary analysis and release strategies like blue/green and progressive delivery.
• Experience with feature flags and experimentation platforms to isolate changes and accelerate safe iteration.
• Have experience with hardware (test bench)

Pay Disclosure

Salary Range/Hourly Rate for California Based Applicants: $146,900 - $183,600 USD (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).

Benefits Summary: Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies provides robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full‑time and part‑time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26. Full Time Employee coverage is effective on the first day of employment. Part‑Time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment.

Equal Opportunity

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are also committed to ensuring compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.

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