Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer Job Description

Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer Job Description

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Senior test engineer / test engineer provides ongoing ownership of QA strategy and mentorship for driving best practices in manual and automation software testing.

Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Work closely with business stakeholder across multiple functional areas, understand business processes, map and configure the requirements in AX
Test from requirements
Get involved with automated testing
Execute manual integration, syste, and performance tests
Guide and mentor juniors
Act as the first point of contact for test related systems enquiries, Quality Center, LoadRunner, EPI-USE Object Sync
Collaborate with developers to find defects
Conduct exploratory testing and code review to ensure high level quality
Provide third level support of software solution as needed
Must be able to write detailed test plans

Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer

List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ISTQB, ISO, QA, DAU, 9000, II, IAT, ITIL, STD, STP

Education for Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the senior test engineer / test engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technical, Electrical Engineering, Education, Computer Engineering, Science, Computer, Physics, Information Systems

Skills for Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer

Desired skills for senior test engineer / test engineer include:

Microsoft Office Suite
SQL
Test suite development and maintenance
Continuous deployment
Build and release processes
Source control
Code reviews
Professional software engineering best practices
Processes
Cucumber

Desired experience for senior test engineer / test engineer includes:

Proficient in Microsoft Office and HP Quality Centre
Minimum of 2 years experience with test engineering
5 years experience with test engineering
Must understand scenario and script development, and requirements traceability for full system integration test
Ensuring functional and technical requirements testing, performance testing, system interface testing, and security testing are being planned for and executed
Collection, tracking and reporting test metrics and brief senior leadership on test status

Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer Examples

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Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a senior test engineer / test engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior test engineer / test engineer
  • The ability to apply sound engineering practices and mathematics to solve problems not limited to electrically, software and mechanically systems
  • Apply and contribute to Medidata's standard practices and procedures
  • With minimal supervision, develop and execute manual and automated test scripts/scenarios by following Medidata's standard practices and procedures (WI's, SOP, Guidelines, etc)
  • To review and execute process to ensure test solutions received is adequate and meets all agreed expectations (example yield entitlements, number of hardware, test times )
  • To interface with Product Line teams on all phases of product life-cycle
  • To identify opportunities and execute action plans to drive yield improvement and test time reductions to meet targeted yields and costs
  • Coordinate efforts with software engineers to identify test automation opportunities, to ensure testability issues are addressed during design life cycle
  • Support for overall product health improvement covering quality and cost
  • Flow, parallelism
  • Independent Verification and Validation (IV & V) of RFMSS and ISM applications
Qualifications for senior test engineer / test engineer
  • Knowledge of integrated pay and personnel systems is strongly desired
  • Working with cross-geo counterparts, define the capital and human resource requirements and the product testing requirements needed to build a successful QA organization
  • Experience with regression, integration and system level test execution
  • In depth knowledge technology areas - VPLS, LDP, L3VPN, RSVP, Ethernet OAM, Layer-2 Bridging, spanning tree
  • Expert in usage of traffic generator IXIA Ixnetwork and Spirent Test Center
  • Expert in Test Automation - Develop Automation libraries to maximize the re-use and speed up Automation
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Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a senior test engineer / test engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior test engineer / test engineer
  • Develop test plans and procedures and work with the engineering staff to ensure adherence to the documented plans & procedures
  • Support the engineering staff by providing expertise on relevant testing requirements such as MIL-STD-1540, MIL-STD-810, RCC-319
  • Act as the primary customer interface for test activities on major weapon system and satellite demonstration programs including interaction with national test ranges, range safety offices, and other test related organizations
  • Work well within a small, multi-functional team to define testing requirements and impacts to the program activities
  • Support the hardware and software integration process and troubleshoot test-related issues
  • Facilitate rapid resolution of test delays that impact tasks including real-time, thorough communication with task leads, program management and other leadership as required
  • Provided documentation and makes technical presentations as required
  • Support development, review, and editing of technical documents and proposals as required
  • Manage FA Lab space, tools, equipment, calibration
  • Facilitate product quality improvement by investigating customer complaints
Qualifications for senior test engineer / test engineer
  • Experience supporting testing activities for multiple projects
  • At least 10 years direct experience in system testing of information systems
  • In depth knowledge in routing platform architecture including route processors, back plane, line cards, control plane, forwarding plane
  • Proven experience as team player within a multi-site environment
  • MCITP - MS certification
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology/Systems, Engineering or related discipline
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Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior test engineer / test engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior test engineer / test engineer
  • Ensure safe practices are followed in all testing
  • Deputise for Test Manager during periods of absence
  • Coaching and mentoring of junior engineers, graduates and apprentices
  • Take the lead for key audits in test
  • Liaise with other areas in the business
  • Ensure our test procedures are compliant with all relevant standards including British standards and Railway Group standards
  • Develop automation tests as part of an agile team, in parallel with product development
  • Conduct feasibility studies on a comprehensive test plans, driving the automation strategy
  • Conduct test-leveling exercises to determine the best test layer to secure code quality
  • Enhance and expand the current QA Infrastructure, driving efficiency into the CI test suite
Qualifications for senior test engineer / test engineer
  • At least five years direct experience with the intelligence community
  • BS in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, or related field
  • 5 years of T&E experience with degree, or 9 years without
  • Knowledge of a software development process
  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on RF/Microwave Technology
  • Proficient in use of RF automated test equipment (ATE) used in production test and characterization, including Verigy 93K RF and Ultraflex RF ATEs
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Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior test engineer / test engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior test engineer / test engineer
  • Collaborate with researchers, product engineers, quality engineers, manufacturing engineers, and customers to plan tests for development and qualification projects
  • Provide regular updates on on-going tests
  • Collaborate with test and product personnel at other EnerSys locations as needed
  • Review test plans for technical and safety integrity
  • Maintain in-house testing capabilities and develop plans for updating test capabilities in the area of equipment, software, and personnel based on product and program needs
  • Work with outside test facilities as needed to compliment in-house capabilities or capacity
  • Maintain up-to-date training as appropriate for all test team members
  • Contribute to presentations in support of new product development and new business development
  • Maintain all test-related documentation required by programs, internal Operating Systems, and applicable regulatory bodies
  • Provide scope-of-work definition and cost estimates supporting new business proposals
Qualifications for senior test engineer / test engineer
  • 3rd level qualification in Computer Science or related discipline
  • ISEB/ISTQB certification is beneficial
  • Proficient with MS Office Suite, especially Excel and Power Point
  • Experience in ATE handling/debugging preferably in LTX MX, SPEA, Eagle, D10 etc
  • Test programming skills on ATE platform with experience on TP development including tester platform conversion/migration
  • Experience in Microcontroller test program debugging and methodology
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Senior Test Engineer / Test Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior test engineer / test engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior test engineer / test engineer
  • Advise and encourage QA and ENG practices to keep testing and verification a key part of the entire development pipeline
  • Actively participate in software development, design and code reviews to provide ready test programs to manufacturing
  • Adheres to internal SQT processes and assists with the implementation of new departmental tool sets
  • Incorporate new testing and verification techniques into the development process
  • Develop manufacturing Automated Test Equipment to test programmable power supplies
  • Design and transfer various test fixtures for different products to manufacturing
  • Convert manual testing to ATE stations
  • New product introduction from engineering to manufacturing
  • Work with the new product design engineering team to analyze product test requirements in order to create manufacturing ATE stations and comprehensive test programs for module and system-level testing
  • Setup and maintain manufacturing ATE’s, troubleshooting and Burn-in test equipment
Qualifications for senior test engineer / test engineer
  • Comprehensive knowledge of Cisco network device configuration
  • Must demonstrate proficiency in structured, problem-solving methodology
  • F5 LTM, GTM DNS and DNSSEC experience
  • Occasional travel for training and to support other JCI facilities, vendors, or customers is required
  • Excellent computer and data analysis/management skills with proficiency in Microsoft Suite Applications (Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint) internet software and e-mail
  • Hands on experience in application testing

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