The Role
Leads end-to-end quality strategy for robotics software, hardware, embedded systems, peripherals, and server infrastructure. Manages a QC team, defines testing standards and release criteria, oversees multi-project validation, drives automated test frameworks and CI/CD quality gates, investigates system-level defects, and supports field deployments. The role requires cross-functional collaboration, technical debugging, quality reporting, and leadership across multiple client sites.
Summary Generated by Built In
QA Test Automation Lead
Location: Pune (On-site / Warehouse + Office)
About the Role
As a QA Automation Manager, you will own the end-to-end quality strategy for our robotics platform, spanning hardware, embedded systems, and software. You will lead a team of QA engineers while defining scalable testing frameworks and ensuring production-grade reliability in a fast-paced robotics environment.
Experience:
- 8–12+ years of experience in validation, systems engineering, QA, or robotics engineering.
- 2–4+ years of experience managing or leading technical teams.
- Strong system-level experience with robotics, automation, or material-handling platforms.
- Experience defining validation strategy, test standards, and release-readiness criteria.
- Experience managing validation across multiple products or customer deployments.
- Hands-on background in hardware, firmware, software, or systems testing (prior IC experience required).
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including product, hardware, firmware, and field operations
Roles & Responsibilities:
Role Overview
The Software QC Manager is responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and integration readiness of all software systems across multiple robotics projects and client deployments. This role combines hands-on technical validation with leadership of a QC team, covering end-to-end testing across software, robot hardware, peripherals, and server infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and implement SW QC processes, standards, and metrics across all projects
- Establish test strategies for complex, multi-system robotics solutions
- Ensure compliance with internal quality benchmarks and client requirements
- Oversee SW QC activities across multiple concurrent client sites and deployments
- Track and report quality status, risks, and release readiness to stakeholders
- Lead end-to-end validation of software interacting with:
- Robot hardware systems
- Peripheral devices (sensors, actuators, controllers)
- Backend/server infrastructure and networks
- Identify and mitigate integration risks across subsystems
- Ensure robustness in real-world deployment conditions
- Actively participate in test design, execution, and defect analysis
- Troubleshoot complex system-level issues spanning software, hardware, and infrastructure
- Support field teams in diagnosing and resolving client-site issues
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing Software QC team
- Drive development of automated test frameworks (API, UI, system-level)
- Implement CI/CD quality gates and test pipelines
- Select and manage QC tools for test management, defect tracking, and reporting
- Work closely with software, hardware, DevOps, and deployment teams
- Collaborate with project managers to align quality goals with delivery timelines
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Robotics, Electronics, or related field
- 5-8+ years in software quality assurance, with experience in complex systems
- Proven experience leading QC/QA teams in a product or robotics/embedded environment.
Strong understanding of:
- Software testing (functional, integration, system, regression)
- Embedded systems and robotics software stacks
- Hardware-software integration challenges
- Networked systems and server-side dependencies
- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and scripting
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills across system layers
- Experience managing multi-project, multi-location quality operations.
Desired Candidates:
BE/ B. Tech (Computer Science, Electronics)
We Value:
Constant learner to become a Subject Matter Expert
Proven record in start-up environment working with innovations
Exposure to a high paced working environment
Ability to conduct detailed procedures in a time-constrained environment
Also, to learn more about what is like to be a Unbox employee, please read more about current employees and company culture:
https://unboxrobotics.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/unboxrobotics/
https://instagram.com/lifeatunbox
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electronics, or a related field
- 8–12+ years of experience in validation, systems engineering, QA, or robotics engineering
- 2–4+ years of experience managing or leading technical teams
- Strong system-level experience with robotics, automation, or material-handling platforms
- Experience defining validation strategy, test standards, and release-readiness criteria
- Experience managing validation across multiple products or customer deployments
- Hands-on experience testing hardware, firmware, software, or systems
- 5–8+ years of software quality assurance experience with complex systems
- Experience leading QC or QA teams in a product, robotics, or embedded environment
- Knowledge of functional, integration, system, and regression testing
- Understanding of embedded systems and robotics software stacks
- Understanding of hardware-software integration, networked systems, and server-side dependencies
- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and scripting
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills across system layers
- Experience managing multi-project, multi-location quality operations
- Experience working in a startup or fast-paced innovation environment
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The Company
What We Do
Unbox Robotics builds software-defined robotics systems to enable logistics players to automate and radically improve their operations on-demand in a limited footprint and capital. We are applying proprietary Swarm Intelligence and ML algorithms inspired by nature to redefine the way companies sort and ship orders. Our 1st product UnboxSort is the world's first of its kind patented AI-powered parcel sorting robotic system that gets installed in <2 weeks, saves ~50% - 80% area, and improves productivity by > 3X to 5X. We have a strong team of alumni from the National University of Singapore, the University of York, and the Indian School of Business with international experience in robotics, manufacturing, and logistics. We are backed by 3one4 Capital, Sixth Sense Ventures, SOSV, Entrepreneur First, Redstart Labs (Info Edge), Arali Ventures, CIIE, Beenext, WEH Ventures, Force Ventures, Veda VC, and an impressive set of angel investors.
