Test Automation Engineer

About Overwatch Imaging:

Overwatch Imaging is an imagery intelligence technology company working to bring sensor autonomy to time-critical airborne search detectiontrackingand monitoring missions. Our Automated Sensor Operator (ASO) software native to our own line of purpose-built Smart Sensors and as an upgrade for airborne video gimbal platforms bringsSuperhuman VisionandWorkload Reductionto users of real-time imagery intelligence systems. We fundamentally believe that modern edge processing and AI-enabled autonomy can perform an important set of time-critical imagery intelligence missions betterfasterand moresafely than humans can alone.

Founded in 2016 in Hood River Oregon we support private sector companies as well as federalstateand local agencies around the world with missions ranging from wildfire mapping and disaster response to law enforcement border security maritime domainawarenessand tactical intelligence.

About this Role:

Overwatch is seeking aTest Automation Engineer to own and evolve how wevalidateedge-deployed imaging systems across software Jetson-basedcompute and hardware-integrated sensor payloadsthrough automation tooling and AI-assisted testing.

WhatYoull Do:

End-to-End System Testing

• Design and execute tests across UI APIs backend and Jetson-based systems.

• Translate customer issues into reproducible test cases.

• Define expected behavior tolerances andfailureconditions.

• Identifyedge cases and integration gaps.

Test Automation & Tooling

• Build andmaintainautomated regression and integration tests.

• Develop tools for:

• Test orchestration and execution.

• Log collection parsing and failure detection.

• Test telemetry and reporting.

• Expand coverage while reducing manual testing.

• Integrateautomation into CI/CD pipelines
  

Hardware Integration Validation

• Validate software that runs on Jetson devices and interfaces with in-house smart-sensors and third-party payloads.

• Reproduce and debug software hardware issues.

• Turn integration failures into repeatable tests.

• Maintain and support Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) setups.

Field Issue Troubleshooting

• Investigate and reproduce customer-reported issues.

• Build tools and workflows for faster debugging (logs replay diagnostics).

• Feed findings back into automated test coverage.

AI-Assisted Testing

• Apply AI where it improves validation:

• UI testing (e.g. Playwright).

• Log analysis and anomaly detection.

• Evolve testing toward more adaptive intelligent systems.

What Success Looks Like

• Critical workflows are automated and continuouslyvalidated.

• Integration issues are caught early and are reproducible.

• Customer issues are faster to diagnose and resolve.

• Testing scales with reduced manual effort.

Who You Are

• 5 yearsofexperiencein test automationandhardware/softwarevalidation

• Experience with system integration or embedded testing.

• Comfortable working with software deployed to edge hardware (Jetson devices or similar).

• Strong systems thinking across software and hardware.

• Experience building test automation tools or frameworks.

• Proficient in Python and Linux environments.

• Bonus:Experience with HIL testing Playwright or AI-assisted testing.

Summary
This role combines system-level testing automation and real-world debugging. You will build the infrastructure and workflows that ensure our software and hardware systems work reliably in the field.

What We Offer

• Growth Opportunities: As a team member of a true startup you will learn by doing andshapeour future. The opportunities are limitless for those who want to grow their career.
• Impact Opportunity: We work on missions that matter to keep people safe and make the world better and we do it at the speed of a startup.
• Late Start Wednesday: A weekly blockto have focus time away from meetings and calls
• Time Off: Generous unlimited PTO policy
• Stock Options

• Medical and Dental premiums 100% covered
• 401K Matching

Overwatch Imaging is an equal opportunity workplace and makes employment decisions based on merit and business needs regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age marital status disability gender identity Veteran status or any other protected personal characteristic.

Required Experience:

Manager