Edge & Cloud Software Test Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC

Noord-Holland

On-site

EUR 60,000 - 100,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Team activities and company events

Fresh team lunches 3x per week

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a hands-on Software Test Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of software in fiber-optic sensing systems. You will design and execute tests for algorithms, cloud back-ends, and user interfaces, collaborating with data scientists, developers, and architects to meet functional and non-functional requirements.

The role demands a proactive, detail-focused tester with strong problem-solving abilities and experience with automated testing, CI/CD,

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, embedded systems, or related field.
Proven experience in software testing or quality assurance.
Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and lifecycle.
Experience with both exploratory/manual testing and automated testing.
Experience testing integrated systems rather than only isolated software components.
Proactive in identifying risks and gaps in requirements and investigating failures across multiple system components.
Pragmatic and hands-on when working with hardware, software, test environments, and imperfect real-world data.
Able to work independently while collaborating with different engineering disciplines.
Able to communicate technical problems and quality risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Perform functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing across edge devices, cloud services, APIs, databases, and GUIs.
Define test strategies, plans, cases, acceptance criteria, and automated scripts for edge and cloud platforms.
Identify, document, and track software defects with clear reproduction steps.
Collaborate with product owners, developers to ensure test coverage.
Contribute to development and maintenance of automated test frameworks and pipelines.
Test edge-cloud behaviour under connectivity interruptions, delays, duplicates, restarts, updates, and sync failures.
Validate performance, reliability, and stability under different operating conditions.
Test software on edge hardware and hardware-software integration in labs and field.
Analyse results and provide actionable feedback to development teams.
Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and results.
Integrate automated tests into GitLab CI/CD pipelines and define quality gates.
Support continuous improvement of testing processes, tools, and quality standards.
Participate in release readiness reviews and ensure quality before deployment.