Test Engineer Lead

Frequentis; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Health Savings Accounts

Disability Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Team-building activities

Job summary

Frequentis USA Inc. is seeking an experienced Test Engineering Lead to oversee test programs from design through deployment. You will mentor a team of test engineers, plan test activities, and coordinate with government stakeholders to review requirements and report milestones.

The role emphasizes formal testing, documentation, and collaboration across engineering and operations to ensure safety-critical performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading test teams and programs in a formal environment.
• Strong communication and organizational skills for cross-functional teams.
• Experience planning test activities, schedules, and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Oversee successful implementation and completion of test programs, including schedules and reports.
• Engage with Federal government and stakeholders to convey status and findings.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to a team of test engineers.
• Create and execute test procedures for functional, performance, and environmental tests.
• Perform and document various test types and maintain records of results.
• Review requirements from a testability perspective and plan verification strategies.

Skills

Test leadership

Test program management

Mentoring

Communication

Education

BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Job Introduction

Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom-tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards. We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever-changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.

Key Tasks

• Oversee successful implementation and completion of Test programs, including creating and managing test schedules, completion of test documentation, test reports, and formal testing with customers.
• Engage with Federal government and other stakeholders to convey Test program status and achievements, as well as conduct defect ticket reviews and planning sessions.
• Provided leadership and mentoring to a team of test engineers, including providing guidance on best testing practices and adherence to business processes.
• Create and execute test procedures including functional (demonstration, test, inspection), maintenance/reliability, stability/load, performance, analysis, security, voice quality, and environmental tests
• Perform functional, maintenance/reliability, stability/load, performance, analysis, security, voice quality, and environmental tests
• Conduct working group sessions with customers, users, and Engineering teams to review requirements and product design to ensure consistency and clarity in development and usability of systems.
• Track, prioritize and organize defects with JIRA, working with Engineering and Development to facilitate timely corrections.
• Responsible for reporting Test program statuses and milestone achievements to senior management and stakeholders.
• Review and interpret system, software, and hardware requirements from a testability perspective
• Plan verification strategies and test specifications based on customer and product requirements, hardware/software requirements, and use case scenarios.
• Maintain well organized record of test results and generate historical analysis of test results
• Develop and review formal qualification test reports which detail results of test procedures conducted during formal test events.
• Manage test environment for assigned Test program(s), including managing test scripts and test equipment

Key Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience leading and mentoring Test personnel and managing Test programs
• At least 5 years of experience with system level (software/hardware) test engineering in a formal test environment, including system, functional, integration, usability, performance, and load testing
• Experience in leading comprehensive test programs through the complete engineering lifecycle (design to deployment).
• Ability to supervise and lead a team of self-directed Test Engineers, as well as delegate responsibilities effectively to ensure efficient test operations
• Experience planning a Test program including schedule for test activities within all test phases, estimating resource needs, and ensure all milestones are achieved on schedule and within budget.
• Experience conducting formal testing in a regulated engineering environment
• Strong written, communication, and organizational skills
• BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience with IT and telecommunications hardware and software or applicable certifications/experience

Frequentis USA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Around 2,900 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work-life-balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities. In doing so, we focus on long-term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know-how of our employees stable.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Health Savings Accounts
• Competitive 401(k) Plan with company match and immediate vesting
• Employee Life Insurance & AD&D
• Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Generous holidays, including a full week off from December 25 to January 1
• PTO that scales with tenure and sick leave
• Company-sponsored team-building activities to boost morale and productivity.

TRUST-BASED

MODERN MENTORING TRAININGS

WORKING HOURS

IT-EQUIPMENT PROGRAM