Senior Software Test Engineer

Comtech Telecommunications

Seattle, WA

Full Time

Senior

105k-115k

28 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Senior Software Test Engineer at Comtech Telecommunications Corp. will be responsible for designing and implementing automated testing solutions to ensure the quality of the company's products. This role involves working within a team to develop test cases, improve testing methodologies, and support continuous integration and deployment processes. The position is based in Seattle, WA, Annapolis, MD, or Stoughton, MA, with remote options available, and offers a competitive salary range of $105,000 - $115,000 USD.

Key Responsibilities

Design and create test plans and scripts to address business and technical use cases
Review requirements, user stories and technical design documents and provide timely feedback
Ensure the traceability of functional test cases to system requirements
Automate existing manual test cases
Analyze and decompose a complicated software system and design a strategy to test the application
Discover novel ways to test performance, scalability and security using quality process and analysis
Work with the engineering team to help define the testing strategies and build appropriate test environments and test harnesses
Communicate progress with team members through test case reviews and daily scrum meetings
Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution
Troubleshoot identified bugs and provide documentation on resolutions and workarounds
Comply with organizational policies and procedures to meet ISO guidelines adopted by the company

Requirements

3-5 years of experience with structured and exploration testing methodologies
3+ years of QA automation experience
3+ years scripting experience in one or more mainstream scripting languages (bash, Perl, Python)
Knowledge of virtualization/containerization environments, particularly OpenStack/VMWare/Kubernetes
Proven experience developing test cases and test plans
Experience working with Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, FishEye)
Familiarity with testing on a Linux environment
Hands-on experience testing enterprise applications using CICD pipelines
Experience with WireShark or equivalent tools
Motivated, proactive, detailed orientated and a team player
Excellent spoken and written communication skills