Senior Software Test & Verification Engineer

Sandia National Laboratories; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 141,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories seeks Software Engineering professionals to join a high‑performing team focusing on system integration and testing for space missions. In this role, you will have opportunities to collaborate on the design, development, testing, and deployment of advanced real‑time decision support ground systems.

Work will include both manual testing using formal test procedures and automated testing using in‑house developed automation test tools.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q and SCI clearance.

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.
• Work within a team of system testers to perform requirements verification on a large, multi‑node, Linux‑based satellite ground system with responsibility for end‑to‑end verification of assigned subsystems/capabilities.
• Define and evolve testing strategies as the ground system is migrated to newer technologies, such as cloud computing and containerization.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement automated test strategies and tools by evaluating options, making recommendations, and implementing selected approaches.
• Perform manual testing using formal test procedures and run automated tests on a regular basis while establishing repeatable, auditable test execution practices.
• Analyze manual and automated test results, report status, and follow up on failed tests through anomaly triage, root‑cause analysis, and tracking to closure.
• 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 (reliability, scalability, maintainability, and documentation).
• Evaluate and adopt new automated testing methods and tools as the system evolves to a new architecture, including CI/CD‑driven testing and modern toolchains aligned to migration.
• Develop and apply testing skills to support user requirements for highly complex software/hardware applications, serving as a testing subject matter expert (SME) to advise developers and system engineers.
• Support customer‑facing milestone test activities (e.g., readiness reviews, execution support, reporting, and follow‑up), communicating technical status, risks, and mitigations.
• Perform requirements‑based verification and regression testing of software changes, participate in code reviews, and provide actionable feedback to improve code quality and testability.
• Debug issues in distributed, multi‑node Linux environments using standard troubleshooting approaches (e.g., logs, metrics/telemetry, configuration review, and command‑line tools).
• Mentor less‑experienced team members in test design, automation practices, and troubleshooting techniques.

Skills

Linux

Python

Java

C/C++

Test automation

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

GitHub

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories seeks Software Engineering professionals to join a high‑performing team focusing on system integration and testing for space missions. In this role, you will have opportunities to collaborate on the design, development, testing, and deployment of advanced real‑time decision support ground systems.

Work will include both manual testing using formal test procedures and automated testing using in‑house developed automation test tools.