Quality Assurance Architect - Robotics & Automation

Tokyo
No Remote
Full-time
December 23, 2025

Our Tokyo Engineering team is rapidly scaling to meet the evolving needs of enterprise customers — from a handful of robots to large fleets operating in live warehouses. We build next-generation logistics automation solutions powered by rapyuta.io, our cloud robotics platform.

As a Quality Assurance Architect, you will architect and own the entire QA ecosystem — spanning test strategy, infrastructure, automation, CI/CD integration, and quality governance across multiple agile teams. You will work hands-on with real and simulated robots, define scalable testing frameworks, and lead initiatives to embed quality into every stage of the product lifecycle.

This is a strategic, high-impact role for a QA professional who thrives in fast-evolving environments and can bring together software, hardware, and systems-level quality engineering into a unified pipeline.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with Product Managers, System Architects, and Agile teams to ensure quality gates across all stages of release.
Define and implement an end-to-end QA strategy covering simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), API, integration, and field-level testing.
Build and maintain test automation frameworks (Python/C++/ROS ecosystem) integrated with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).
Design, review, and optimize test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria in alignment with agile development processes.
Set up automated regression, load, and performance testing suites for robotics systems and APIs.
Mentor QA and development teams in testing best practices, metrics, and continuous improvement.
Drive defect triage and root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence and ensure traceability.
Contribute to process maturity and tooling roadmap for organization-wide QA scalability.

Requirements

Minimum skills:

5+ years of progressive experience in software quality assurance or test automation, with at least 2 years in a lead or architect role
Experience leading, mentoring QA engineers and driving quality best practices across teams
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
Understanding of system-level validation, including integration across multiple components (firmware, middleware, UI, APIs)
Solid grounding in Agile and DevOps methodologies
Deep understanding of Linux environments, version control (Git), and modern CI/CD pipelines
Proven ability to design scalable automation architectures and implement reusable QA libraries
Strong expertise in Python testing frameworks (e.g., Pytest, Robot Framework)
Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred skills

Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-based testing
Experience in performance and reliability testing for distributed systems
ISTQB certification or equivalent QA credentials
Japanese language proficiency is a plus

Benefits

Competitive salary
Working with exceptionally talented and diverse team
Visa and relocation support

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About Rapyuta Robotics

Rapyuta Robotics is a global technology startup that builds cloud robotics solutions. Their goal is to empower lives through connected machines so humans can focus on intellectually challenging and creative work. They have around 110 employees across their offices in Japan and India.

While improvements in technology are helping to make robotics more accessible to markets, the ability to integrate all the required expertise remains a barrier for most companies. Rapyuta Robotics is building a platform to make robots more attainable and useful to anyone.

Their platform makes it easy for businesses to deploy robotics solutions without needing in-house robotics expertise. By integrating robot hardware, software, sensor data, and applications in the cloud — where powerful data centers manage the heavy computation — Rapyuta’s platform lets end-users focus on their business processes instead of on managing robot hardware or software infrastructure.

Empowering Lives with Connected Machines.
Rapyuta Robotics strongly believes that the dirty, dull, and dangerous work should be automated and people should be given an option to take up more intellectually challenging and creative work. They aim to enable this automation with machines that are connected and coordinated.

They hope that robotics will not exclude people, but work for them as a familiar partner, creating new ways of working and new revenue opportunities.