Senior QA Automation Engineer — Automate Quality at Scale

AeroVironment; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 91,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVironment in Melbourne, FL is seeking a Software QA Automation Engineer III to design automated software validations. The role collaborates with the development team but also operates with a high degree of autonomy.

Responsibilities include expanding and maintaining automated testing, defining scope and benchmarks, implementing QA practices, mentoring teammates, and ensuring quality across local, networked, cloud-based, or web applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Minimum 5 - 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experienced in Software QA automation.
• Experienced in building and optimizing automation frameworks.
• Experienced performing code reviews and mentoring team members on automation concepts and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Participates in the design, expansion and maintenance of automated testing suite
• Defines and plan scope, resource needs, benchmarks and goals of manual & automation work
• Defines and implement QA practices, procedures, standards and reporting
• Identifies project risks, quantify risk/benefit relationships and provide alternative solutions as well as risk mitigation
• Designs test plans, scenarios and cases to exercise new functionality & identify breaking issues
• Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, cloud-based or Internet-related computer programs
• Partners with resources as needed to validate software with project timeline
• Mentors less experienced team members on QA/QC concepts, methodologies and best practices
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

QA automation

Automation frameworks

Code reviews

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Job description

AeroVironment in Melbourne, FL is seeking a Software QA Automation Engineer III to design automated software validations. The role collaborates with the development team but also operates with a high degree of autonomy.

Responsibilities include expanding and maintaining automated testing, defining scope and benchmarks, implementing QA practices, mentoring teammates, and ensuring quality across local, networked, cloud-based, or web applications.