Nextracker

QA Automation Engineer III

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Sorocaba, São Paulo

In-Office

Senior level

Energy • Renewable Energy

The Role

The role involves backend development, site reliability engineering, automating operations, troubleshooting incidents, and enhancing system security and observability.

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Job Description:

About the Role

Own and evolve our testing strategy for a web-based solar energy platform. Automation-focused, with responsibility for setting up and maintaining testing frameworks, improving CI integration, and mentoring a junior tester.

Key Responsibilities

• Own overall testing strategy and quality standards

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks (E2E, API, integration) for web UI (Angular) and REST APIs
• Set up testing infrastructure from scratch (Playwright/Cypress, Postman/Newman)
• Integrate all automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Define quality gates and release criteria
• Perform higher-complexity manual and exploratory testing where automation is not effective

• Validate PV calculation accuracy with domain experts

Required Qualifications

• Strong programming experience (Python, JavaScript, or similar)

• Proven experience establishing testing infrastructure independently for the following:

• Frontend: Angular
• Backend: Go / Python / C++
• APIs: REST
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Cloud & DevOps: Azure, Azure DevOps, CI pipelines
• Tooling: Jira, Git, API testing tools
• Web testing automation (Puppeteer, Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, etc.)
• API automation frameworks

At Nextpower, we are driving the global energy transition with an integrated clean energy technology platform that combines intelligent structural, electrical, and digital solutions for utility-scale power plants. Our comprehensive portfolio enables faster project delivery, higher performance, and greater reliability, helping our customers capture the full value of solar power. Our talented worldwide teams are redefining how solar power plants are designed, built, and operated every day with smart technology, data-driven insights, and advanced automation. Together, we’re building the foundation for the world’s next generation of clean energy infrastructure.

We are Nextpower

Top Skills

AWS

Azure

Datadog

Docker

GCP

Grafana

Kubernetes

New Relic

Opentelemetry

Prometheus

Python

Terraform

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The Company

Fremont, CA

1,107 Employees

What We Do

Since day one, Nextracker’s mission has been to transition the world to affordable, renewable power, by developing the highest-performing and resilient solar tracking technologies and software in the market for our customers.
From sustainable tracker solutions that conform to uneven terrain and withstand extreme weather, Nextracker systems have resilience built in. Nextracker leads the solar industry with solar tracker technologies that optimize and increase energy production while reducing costs for significant plant ROI