Serve Robotics is looking for a Release QA Engineer III to own the organization and management of our release workflows. As part of our quality assurance team, you will be responsible for ensuring high-quality weekly releases, providing strategic input into release content, and managing communications.

What You'll Do

Help define and continuously improve release policies, change management procedures, and versioning strategies.
Manage the software release lifecycle end-to-end from planning, deployment, to post-deployment.
Develop and maintain release plans, schedules, and timelines.
Drive improvements to shorten time-to-release and increase confidence in production release quality.
Collaborate with QA and Systems teams to ensure releases are tested thoroughly and meet quality and safety standards.
Advocate for testing readiness including test coverage, artifacts, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
Define a working cadence with TPMs on dependencies and timing of release vehicles.
Drive go/no-go decisions, risk mitigation, and rollback planning.
Monitor, track, and improve communications related to various releases and their progress.
Manage release budgets and resources.
Create and maintain release documentation that clearly articulates the impact of each release.
Assist in the continuous improvement of QA processes and methodologies.
Build internal tools or dashboards to track release status, approvals, and audit trails.
Manage release communications, including change logs, release notes, and incident escalations.

What We're Looking For

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
3+ years of experience in Release, Software engineering, or Quality Assurance.
Knowledge of software development lifecycles and release management methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevOps).
Familiarity with CI/CD tools and technologies.
Experience with project management tools and techniques.
Comfortable working in high ambiguity situations and balancing multiple changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git).
Safety first mindset.
Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience with issue tracking, configuration management tools, workflows and practices such as JIRA.
Experience making data driven decisions.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have

Experience managing releases in a mixed-environment infrastructure including hardware.
Track record of strong cross-functional relationships, reducing deployment friction and building stable and repeatable processes.
Experience with test automation tools.
Experience in one or more of the following industries: automotive, robotics, or logistics.
Experience in data analysis of test results including probability and statistical analysis techniques.

Technical Stack

CI/CD tools
Version control systems (e.g., Git)
Issue tracking (e.g., JIRA)

Team & Environment

You will be part of the quality assurance team at Serve Robotics. We are an agile, diverse, and driven team that solves complicated dynamic problems collaboratively and respectfully, with a mindful eye towards the end-to-end user experience.

Serve Robotics is an equal opportunity employer.