Working Student – QA Engineer

About the job

Working Student - Software Test Engineer / QA (m/f/d)
At SWARM Biotactics, we're creating biorobots - living, intelligent systems based on insects. Each insect carries a custom-designed backpack that enables wireless control, sensing, and secure communication.
Biorobot swarms combine the agility of biology with AI, sensors, embedded systems, and swarm coordination - unlocking capabilities where conventional machines fail.
We are the only company in the world doing this, and we're pushing the edge of what's possible across biology, robotics, software, AI, and swarm intelligence.

🧪 The Role

We are looking for a motivated Working Student Software Test Engineer / QA to support the testing of our software, automation tools, and BioBot robotics systems.
This role is ideal for someone who wants hands-on experience in software quality assurance, manual testing, automation testing, and real-world testing of complex robotics systems.
You will work closely with developers, biologists, hardware engineers, and researchers to validate software behavior across backend services, hardware-integrated systems, lab workflows, and biological test environments.
Most importantly, you will help make sure our systems are reliable, well-documented, and ready for real-world use.

🔬 Things You Could Work On

- Perform manual testing of software, backend services, hardware-integrated systems, and robotics workflows
- Create, update, and execute test cases, test plans, and bug reports
- Support automation testing by writing or maintaining automation scripts
- Validate software behavior in real-world lab environments involving insect biorobotic systems
- Reproduce, document, and track bugs using GitHub or similar tools
- Support regression, smoke, functional, integration, and exploratory testing
- Review logs, screenshots, videos, and test results to help identify issues
- Work with developers, biologists, hardware engineers, and researchers to understand features and test requirements
- Help improve QA processes, test documentation, and release readiness

✅ Requirements

- Hands-on experience with software testing, manual or automation.
- Interest in creating and maintaining automation scripts.
- Understanding of test cases, bug reports, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria
- Basic knowledge of GitHub, including issues, pull requests, branches, and repositories
- Basic programming or scripting knowledge, preferably Python or similar
- Basic understanding of DevOps concepts such as CI/CD, Docker, environments, deployments, or logs
- Comfortable working in a lab/testing environment involving biological systems
- Good communication skills and willingness to work with cross-functional teams
- Detail-oriented, curious, and able to document findings clearly.

⭐ Nice to Have

- Experience with automation testing frameworks
- Experience testing backend services, APIs, or web applications
- Familiarity with robotics, embedded systems, hardware testing, or lab environments
- Experience reviewing logs, screenshots, videos, or test reports
- Interest in bio-robotics, AI, or frontier technology

🚀 Why SWARM Biotactics

- Work on technology that genuinely does not exist anywhere else in the world
- Join a world-class team operating at the frontier of science and engineering
- Collaborate across biology, robotics, software, AI, and embedded systems
- Gain practical QA experience across software, automation, hardware, and robotics
- Learn GitHub-based development workflows and DevOps practices
- Receive mentorship from engineering and research teams
- Contribute to a unique biorobotics product environment from day one

We're well-funded, growing fast, and building a category of technology that no one else is pursuing.
If you want to gain real QA experience while working on technology that feels years ahead of the market, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply directly via LinkedIn or send your application materials to: [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you.