Real-Time Software Test Engineer — Automation & Cloud

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 102,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9/80 compressed work schedule

4/10 compressed workweek

Telecommuting options

Generous vacation and benefits

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories is seeking Software Engineering professionals to join a high-performing team focused on system integration and testing for space missions. You will collaborate on design, development, testing, and deployment of advanced real-time decision support ground systems, with both manual and automated testing using in-house tools.

You will work with experienced engineers, receive mentoring, and progressively take on more responsibility while growing skills in test automation,

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform technical work.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q and SCI clearance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software architects, system engineers, developers, technical leads, customers, and end users to collect and analyze requirements
• Contribute to the design, development, and delivery of technology solutions that improve software quality
• Generate automated tests to verify system functionality
• Participate in testing to assess accuracy and performance of the systems
• Support formal test activities at multiple levels, from components to the enterprise system
• Contribute to research and development activities, including proposing improvements and new ideas
• Work within a team of system testers to perform requirements verification on a large, multi-node, Linux-based satellite ground system
• Contribute to the development of new testing strategies as the ground system is migrated to newer technologies, such as cloud computing and containerization
• Contribute to evaluating and adopting automated test strategies and tools
• Work with developers, systems engineers and other testers to write formal test procedures for requirements verification
• Perform manual testing using formal test procedures and run automated tests on a regular basis
• For both manual and automated testing, analyze results and report status; follow up on failed tests; write release notes for successful tests; and improve and extend test procedures as necessary
• Contribute to the extension of in-house Python-based automation test tools
• Contribute to the evaluation of new automated testing methods and tools as the system evolves to a new architecture
• Develop and apply testing skills to support user requirements for highly complex software/hardware applications
• Support customer-facing formal test activities (e.g., test execution support, reporting, and follow-up)

Skills

Requirements analysis

Test automation

Python

Java

C++

Software testing

Cloud computing

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline

Tools

Confluence

Jira

Zephyr

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Git

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories is seeking Software Engineering professionals to join a high-performing team focused on system integration and testing for space missions. You will collaborate on design, development, testing, and deployment of advanced real-time decision support ground systems, with both manual and automated testing using in-house tools.

You will work with experienced engineers, receive mentoring, and progressively take on more responsibility while growing skills in test automation,