System-Level Quality Ownership

• Own quality for the Frontier System across:

  • Onboard hardware and Drone OS

  • Server hardware and Server OS

  • Networking, connectivity, and communication links

  • Web-based Frontier UI and operator workflows

• Define quality criteria for system behavior, performance, reliability, and failure modes.

• Act as the final quality gate before internal releases, demos, and customer deployments.

Manual & Exploratory Testing

• Perform hands-on manual testing of the full system, including:

  • End-to-end mission workflows

  • Vehicle connectivity, telemetry, and video streaming

  • Failure, recovery, and degraded-mode scenarios

• Design and execute exploratory testing to uncover edge cases that automated tests will not catch.

• Validate system behavior in realistic environments (multi-vehicle setups, unstable networks, mixed hardware configurations).

Test Automation & Tooling

• Design and implement automated testing strategies where they provide real value, including:

  • API and backend service testing

  • UI smoke and regression tests

  • System integration and health-check routines

• Define test environments, test data, and repeatable test setups.

• Work with engineering teams to ensure testability is built into the system architecture.

QA Processes & Reporting

• Define and document QA processes, including:

  • Test plans and test strategies

  • Release and regression testing workflows

  • Bug reporting, triage, and verification practices

• Establish clear quality metrics and reporting (e.g. defect trends, release readiness).

• Provide structured, actionable QA reports to product and engineering leadership.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with:

  • Hardware and embedded engineers on bring-up and integration testing

  • Backend and frontend engineers on feature validation and regression prevention

  • Product management on defining acceptance criteria and release scope

• Give early feedback on designs and implementations to prevent quality issues downstream.

QA Team Build-Up

• Define the future QA team structure and required skill sets.

• Hire, onboard, and mentor QA engineers as the team grows.

• Set standards for how QA work is performed, reviewed, and improved over time.

Key Competencies & Skills

• Strong experience testing complex systems, not just isolated software components.

• Hands-on background with manual testing and exploratory testing.

• Experience designing and implementing test automation at API, system, or UI level.

• Solid understanding of:

  • Client–server architectures

  • Networking and real-time communication systems

  • Embedded or hardware-integrated software systems (strong plus)

• Ability to think in system behavior, failure modes, and operational scenarios.

• Strong documentation and reporting skills — able to clearly communicate risk, readiness, and tradeoffs.

• Comfortable working in fast-moving environments with incomplete information.

• Leadership mindset: able to set direction, not just execute test cases.

Languages Needed:

English (professional working proficiency)

Values Alignment:

You resonate with our no-bullshit, high-accountability culture. You’re a builder who thrives in ambiguity, believes in mission-first decisions, and prefers progress over perfection. You want your work to matter—to our team, our product, and the broader context we operate in.