Software QA Automation Engineer, III
AeroVironment, Inc.4 months ago
Moorpark, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$101k - $153k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, expand, and maintain automated test suites and frameworks such as Xray.
- Own component, subsystem, and automated system tests and co-author system test plans.
- Support hardware-in-the-loop regressions and engineering flight tests.
- Define the scope, resources, benchmarks, and goals for manual and automated QA work.
- Develop QA practices, procedures, standards, reporting, test plans, scenarios, and test cases.
- Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify test software and automation for embedded, networked, and mission systems software.
- Support bug reporting and review, software risk identification, tracking, mitigation, and alternative-solution development.
- Perform code reviews and mentor less experienced team members on QA automation concepts and best practices.
- Collaborate with QA, development, product, DevOps, and system test teams to validate software and resolve issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- 5–8 years of relevant experience.
- Proficiency in one or more of C/C++, Python, C# .NET, or Java, with object-oriented design experience preferred.
- Experience in software QA automation and building or optimizing automation frameworks.
- Comfort working in Linux and with source control and CI pipelines such as GitLab.
- Experience performing code reviews and mentoring team members on automation concepts and best practices.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, multitasking, communication, collaboration, initiative, and judgment skills.
- Experience testing embedded, robotics, UAS, or other safety- or mission-critical software is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop test environments and lab hardware is preferred.
- Must qualify as a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, asylee, refugee, or other qualifying U.S. person under applicable ITAR/EAR requirements; some positions require current U.S. citizenship.
- Must be able to work on government contracts and obtain a Secret security clearance.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) with company matching.
- 9/80 work schedule.
- Paid holiday shutdown.
- Occasional travel within the Continental U.S., up to 20%.
- Office and R&D environment with periods of prolonged sitting and standing.
About AeroVironment, Inc.
AeroVironment builds small unmanned aircraft systems, loitering munitions (e.g., Switchblade), and related software, sensors, and services for U.S. and allied defense agencies. The public company (NASDAQ: AVAV), founded in 1971 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, sells hardware, training, and lifecycle support, with widely fielded systems such as Raven, Puma, and Wasp. It also offers autonomy and robotic technologies used in reconnaissance, targeting, and force protection missions.