Senior Software Test Engineer

Comtech Telecommunications Corp.; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 105,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company seeks a Senior Software Test Engineer to design and implement robust testing solutions. The role involves automation, quality control, and collaboration with engineering teams to enhance product quality, ensuring delivery of high-standard software to customers.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience with structured and exploration testing methodologies.
• 3+ years of QA automation experience.
• Experience working with virtualization/containerization environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and create test plans and scripts for business and technical use cases.
• Automate existing manual test cases.
• Analyze and decompose complicated software system to develop testing strategies.

Skills

Automation

Quality Control

Communication

Scripting

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related STEM degree

Tools

Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, FishEye)

WireShark

Job description

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Comtech Telecommunications Corp. provided pay range

This range is provided by Comtech Telecommunications Corp.. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$105,000.00/yr - $115,000.00/yr

Title: Senior Software Test Engineer

Department: Ops Engineering

Revision Date: 6/25/2025

Location: Seattle, WA or Annapolis, MD or Stoughton, MA (Remote OK)

Level: T3

Rate of Pay: $105,000 - $115,000 USD

Company Overview:

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. For more information, please visit www.comtech.com .

Position summary:

We are currently seeking a Software Test Engineer. This candidate will have a penchant for designing creative ways to enable quality control in our products. An ideal candidate should love automation and strive to enable continuous integration and deployment for all our products. The successful candidate will be required to ramp up rapidly and work within a team to develop automated test cases for our customer deliverables and improve existing testing methodologies and processes.

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 is required
• 3+ years of QA automation experience is required
• 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
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related STEM degree; MS is a plus
  
  

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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