Senior Engineer - Sys

Description

Position at Wind River

About The Opportunity

Wind River Systems is seeking for an experienced high-performing Senior QA Software Engineer for a position providing the verification and validation of a cloud-based platform that spans across all products.

The successful candidate will join a highly skilled development team delivering internal and external tools, and technologies across a complete DevSecOps platform, pioneering many new industry leading capabilities.

The successful candidate must have experience in software testing for cloud-native software and be a highly adaptable team player who can quickly ramp up on new technologies and accomplish goals in a fast-paced agile environment. A combination of strong technical and communication skills is a must.

In a company with significant growth and the leader in embedded platforms, you will be part of a team verifying and validating a cloud application features prior to release. This position requires proven skills in various software test techniques and excellent English oral and written communication skills.  The ability to consider multiple cloud-platform systems and their interactions while designing and executing the integration tests is essential.  You will likely need to work with a variety of tools, operating systems, and products to assure the quality of our software.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute test plans that are specific to a release for multiple integrated components in a cloud-native platform.
• Create and Execute both manual and automated tests as part of verification and validation activities.
• Triage test failure and identify the root cause of the failure where possible with supporting log files or using other techniques.
• Review and analyze product specifications and then formulate test approaches that maximize application test coverage.
• Formulate test approaches to ensure non-functional requirements like performance, scalability, endurance, and security are appropriately validated.
• Request new and updated automated tests and test tools that will support verification and validation activities.
  
  

About You

Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success

• 3-5+ years working in software testing
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong Experience in a technical quality assurance position.
• Strong Experience developing and maintaining test plans for both front-end and back-end software.
• Proven ability to work autonomously and manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Proven problem solving and analytical thinking skills.
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and common MS Office 365 Tools.
• Experience supporting Junior Test Engineers to develop best practices in verification and validation. 
• Experience with commonly used third party tools and providers such as: Git, Jenkins, Postman, SoapUI, JMeter, Wireshark, Charles Proxy, or other similar tools is a plus.
• Experience with Jenkins, DevOps, Docker, and Kubernetes is a plus.
  
  

Qualifications

Diploma or certification in Software Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent experience