Test Engineer - Central Task Manager - CTM
Job Description
Source One is a consulting services company and we’re currently looking for the following individual to work as a consultant with our direct client, an on demand autonomous ride-hauling company in Foster City, CA
No Third-Party, No Corp to Corp, No Sponsorship Now, Future or Temporary Authorization
Title: SP - Test Engineer - Test Engineer – Central Task Manager - CTM
Location: Foster City or San Diego, CA
Onsite (Mon-Fri, 30 + hours)
Contract Duration: 6 months, with likely extension
Pay Rate: $39.45 per hour (w2)
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are supporting an on-demand, autonomous ride-hailing company find a Test Engineer - Central Task Manager (CTM) to join the Autonomous Vehicle Operations Software QA Team
In this role, you’ll focus on API integration testing, performance testing, and synthetic monitoring for CTM mission-critical backend service that coordinates operational tasks and tickets across the autonomous vehicle fleet. You'll work in close collaboration with backend engineers, QA leads, and operations teams to ensure high-quality, reliable releases.
The ideal candidate
As a Test Engineer - Central Task Manager (CTM), you'll:
Develop, maintain, and expand Playwright-based API integration tests (TypeScript) to enhance regression coverage across CTM's task, ticket, notification, and scheduling workflows.
Perform manual API testing for CTM features, releases, hotfixes, and pre-merge validations.
Monitor and triage synthetic test failures running on scheduled cron cycles against deployed environments.
Support defect triage: identify, reproduce, and verify bugs across Dev, Staging, and Production.
Collaborate with developers, QA leads, and product managers to ensure test completeness and release readiness.
Provide QA sign-off for releases and ensure all validation activities meet defined quality standards.
Document test results, maintain traceability to requirements in TestRail, and track issues to closure.
Contribute to ongoing improvements in test infrastructure (testcontainers setup, cleanup patterns, CI pipeline via Bazel/Buildkite).
IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE
Qualifications: - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field. - 1–3 years of experience as a QA/Test Engineer with proven skills in testing large-scale, complex backend services. - Strong experience with TypeScript or JavaScript. - Experience with API testing (REST) and tools like Postman, curl, or programmatic HTTP clients. - Familiarity with testing tools like JIRA and TestRail.
DAILY TASKS
We are seeking a Contract Test Engineer to join the Autonomous Vehicle Operations Software QA Team, focusing on API integration testing, performance testing, and synthetic monitoring for CTM mission-critical backend service that coordinates operational tasks and tickets across the autonomous vehicle fleet. This role requires close collaboration with backend engineers, QA leads, and operations teams to ensure high-quality, reliable releases.
REQUIRED SKILLS
Key Responsibilities: - Develop, maintain, and expand Playwright-based API integration tests (TypeScript) to enhance regression coverage across CTM's task, ticket, notification, and scheduling workflows. - Perform manual API testing for CTM features, releases, hotfixes, and pre-merge validations. - Monitor and triage synthetic test failures running on scheduled cron cycles against deployed environments. - Support defect triage: identify, reproduce, and verify bugs across Dev, Staging, and Production. - Collaborate with developers, QA leads, and product managers to ensure test completeness and release readiness. - Provide QA sign-off for releases and ensure all validation activities meet defined quality standards. - Document test results, maintain traceability to requirements in TestRail, and track issues to closure. - Contribute to ongoing improvements in test infrastructure (testcontainers setup, cleanup patterns, CI pipeline via Bazel/Buildkite).
BUSINESS DRIVER OF ROLE
Bonus Qualifications: - Familiarity with Grafana, docker, testcontainers for spinning up containerized test environments. - Experience with Bazel or similar build systems. - Understanding of event-driven systems, WebSockets patterns.
WORK SCHEDULE
Onsite Foster City, CA or San Diego, CA 5 days in office
INTERVIEW PROCESS
30-minute Manager Zoom 1.5 hour panel interview On-site portion for the panel interview required