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Senior SWQA Test Development Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, SW QA Test Dev
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Santa Clara, CA$168k - $270.3kfull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior, technically strong test development engineer responsible for quality, automation, and technical leadership in AI/microservice platforms, driving end-to-end quality from design through release and production readiness within NVIDIA’s AI software stack.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive end‑to‑end quality from design through release and production readiness
  • Lead test strategy, planning, and execution across functional, integration, system, performance, and reliability testing
  • Design, build, and maintain test frameworks and automation for microservice‑based, containerized AI systems
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to less senior engineers including guiding test design, automation practices, and quality standards
  • Partner closely with cross functional teams to influence architecture and improve testability
  • Validate LLM and AI inference workflows, including model lifecycle, APIs, CLIs, deployment configurations, and scaling scenarios
  • Drive defect triage, root‑cause analysis, and quality metrics, ensuring issues are addressed systematically and efficiently
  • Leverage AI‑assisted testing techniques to improve coverage, efficiency, and signal‑to‑noise in test results

Qualifications

  • BS or higher degree in CS/EE/CE majors (or equivalent experience)
  • 8+ years of experience in software development, test development, or quality engineering roles
  • Strong proficiency in Python and test automation frameworks
  • Experience testing distributed systems, microservices, or cloud‑native platforms
  • Solid understanding of Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Proven ability to lead technically, review designs, and mentor other engineers
  • Strong debugging skills and ability to reason about complex, system‑level failures
  • Excellent communication skills and experience working across geographically distributed teams

Skills

Required:PythonTest automationDistributed systems testingLinuxDocker / KubernetesCI/CDLeadership / mentorshipDebugging

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see NVIDIA benefits)
Last updated Sep 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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