Senior Software Test Engineer – Automation & CI/CD Lead

Sandia National Laboratories; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 102,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Telecommuting

Flexible work schedule

Relocation assistance

Generous benefits

Job summary

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

You will drive test strategy, improve automation frameworks, participate in formal test activities, and mentor teammates while growing your

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline.
• Five or more years of experience with design, development, and execution of software testing (automated and manual) including independently developing test strategies and driving issues to resolution.
• Experience in a high-level language (e.g., Python, Java, or C/C++) applied to test automation, tooling, or software quality workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with software architects, system engineers, developers, technical leads, customers, and end users to collect and analyze requirements and translate them into verification approaches, formal test procedures, and automated test designs.
• Generate automated tests to verify system functionality and own the health, coverage, and maintainability of assigned automated test suites.
• Plan and support formal test activities at multiple levels, from components to the enterprise system, including test readiness, execution leadership for assigned events, and stakeholder status reporting.
• Contribute to research and development activities, including proposing improvements and new ideas and driving improvements into team practice/tools.
• Maintain test artifacts such as procedures, reports, and release notes; improve and extend test procedures as the system evolves and requirements are updated.
• Maintain and extend in-house Python-based automation test tools by improving framework capabilities.

Skills

Python

Java

C/C++

Linux

Test automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab/GitHub

Maven/Gradle

Job description

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

You will drive test strategy, improve automation frameworks, participate in formal test activities, and mentor teammates while growing your