Staff QA Test Engineer
Aechelon Technology11 hours ago
Orlando, FL, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead risk-based manual testing for a major product area and define scope from requirements, designs, change lists, and defects.
- Create and maintain test plans, test cases, test data, requirement traceability records, and test summaries.
- Execute functional, integration, system, regression, smoke, exploratory, acceptance, and release testing.
- Investigate failures, analyze and trace C++ code, isolate root causes, track defects, verify fixes, and identify regression coverage.
- Assess coverage gaps, unresolved defects, and release risks to support release-readiness decisions.
- Contribute tests, scripts, utilities, and targeted functionality to existing automation frameworks and CI pipelines.
- Improve QA intake, planning, execution, defect management, reporting, and release-validation processes.
- Apply approved AI tools to requirements analysis, test design, failure analysis, reporting, and documentation, validating all generated output.
- Coordinate testing across teams and mentor QA engineers in test design, investigation, product knowledge, and QA processes.
Requirements
- Seven to ten years of experience in manual software testing, quality assurance, or quality engineering.
- Strong knowledge of QA principles, software and test lifecycles, risk-based testing, and defect management.
- Ability to independently plan and execute testing for complex features, systems, builds, and releases.
- Experience creating test plans, test cases, traceability records, defect reports, and test summaries.
- Ability to investigate failures, interpret logs and output, and communicate findings clearly.
- Ability to analyze, debug, and trace C++ code to identify software issue root causes.
- Experience with test management, issue tracking, configuration management, and continuous integration tools.
- Ability to contribute tests or supporting functionality to automated test suites and pipelines.
- Familiarity with AI tools applied to QA planning, test design, analysis, reporting, or documentation.
- Strong organizational, communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.
- College or university degree and eligibility to work with export-controlled technology.
- Preferred qualifications include a BA or BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; experience with 3D graphics, modeling, simulation, image generation, sensor, real-time, distributed, or integrated hardware/software systems; and experience with Python, C++, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Perforce, Git, or comparable tools.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and company performance-based profit sharing.
- 401k and 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance plans.
- No relocation reimbursement is provided.
About Aechelon Technology
Aechelon Technology builds visual simulation systems for military and government training, including image generators, geospecific visual and sensor databases, and realistic 3D models, plus integration services. It sells hardware, software, and content to U.S. Government agencies and defense prime contractors for flight and sensor-training simulators. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in South San Francisco, the company is privately held and backed by Sagewind Capital.