What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Engineer position at ORBCOMM?
Join us as a QA Automation Engineer!
Are you ready to make a significant impact in an innovative environment? At ORBCOMM, we’re seeking a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer with strong experience in automation frameworks, data-engineering-focused QA, and modern AI-assisted testing tools. This role is ideal for someone who is hands-on, technical, and passionate about building scalable automation solutions.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
At ORBCOMM, you’ll be part of a global leader in industrial IoT solutions, helping customers across industries unlock the power of data to streamline operations and improve performance. You’ll work alongside a diverse, talented team while contributing to innovative projects that make a real impact worldwide.
With a hybrid working schedule, you can enjoy the best of both worlds—engaging in-person collaboration at our Hyderabad, India office, while also enjoying the autonomy and comfort of remote work.
What You’ll Do:
- Create, own, and execute automated and manual tests derived from requirements to ensure system performance and a high-quality user experience.
- Design, enhance, and maintain robust automation frameworks and infrastructure for large-scale systems and data pipelines.
- Implement AI-driven tools and techniques to optimize test coverage, test generation, and defect detection.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and report functional and performance issues.
- Collaborate with cross-functional QA teams to align on testing procedures and best practices.
- Contribute to automation frameworks and assist other QA teams with their automation efforts.
- Ensure test coverage is comprehensive across applications, APIs, integrations, and data workflows.
- Continuously explore opportunities to improve QA processes, tools, and frameworks by leveraging modern technologies from ORBCOMM’s partner ecosystem.
- Work closely with data engineering teams to validate data pipelines, data quality, ingestion processes, and transformations.
- Develop and maintain automation suites across API, data, backend, and (optional) UI layers.
Who You Are:
You’re a detail-oriented, technically strong automation engineer who enjoys building things, solving hard problems, and using modern tools to deliver quality. You embrace AI and automation as part of your daily workflow.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5 years of hands-on experience in QA automation engineering.
- Strong experience with Python and a broad set of automation engineering skills (preferably “30-engineer-level skills”—deep, well-rounded automation expertise).
- Experience designing or maintaining large-scale automation frameworks on modern infrastructure. Understanding of data engineering QA (validating data pipelines, ETL processes, data integrity, transformations, streaming data).
- Experience using modern AI tools or AI-powered automation frameworks to accelerate testing. Ability to evaluate new tools, technologies, and partner solutions and incorporate them into the automation ecosystem.
- Experience in automated testing and proficiency in scripting/OOP languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Java.
- Experience with query languages such as SQL, Flux, and/or PromQL.
- Strong understanding of binary data manipulation.
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
- Experience with web development, performance testing, and UI testing tools like Selenium or Playwright (preferred but not required).
- Experience with analytics/visualization platforms such as Grafana—an advantage.
- A collaborative mindset and strong communication skills, with the ability to thrive in an agile, fast-moving environment.
Then we want to meet you!
About Us:
At ORBCOMM, we’re pioneers in IoT technology, that drives innovation and empowers our clients to make data-driven decisions. Our industry-leading solutions enable customers to boost productivity, streamline operations and increase their bottom line. With over 30 years of experience and the most comprehensive solution portfolio in the industry, we enable the management of millions of assets worldwide across diverse sectors including transportation, heavy industries, satellite, and maritime. Discover how ORBCOMM is transforming industries and unlocking the potential of data to drive meaningful change by visiting us at www.orbcomm.com!
Ready to Join Us?
We believe that our people are our greatest asset. Your skills and passion can help us achieve remarkable things! If you’re seeking a thrilling career opportunity in a vibrant, growth-oriented environment, ORBCOMM is the perfect fit for you.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and appreciate all applicants for their interest in joining our team. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
At ORBCOMM, we are also dedicated to ensuring accessibility and are pleased to offer accommodations for individuals with disabilities upon request throughout all aspects of the selection process.