Senior Software Test Engineer

Comtech Ef Data

Annapolis, MD

Full Time

Senior

105k-115k

13 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. is a leading global technology company providing terrestrial and wireless network solutions, next-generation 9-1-1 emergency services, satellite and space communications technologies, and cloud-native capabilities to commercial and government customers around the world. Our unique culture of innovation and employee empowerment unleashes a relentless passion for customer success. With multiple facilities located in technology corridors throughout the United States and around the world, Comtech leverages our global presence, technology leadership, and decades of experience to create the world's most innovative communications solutions.

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