Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Software Engineer
Camgian Corporation4 days ago
Huntsville, AL, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Define and own QA test strategies, test plans, release criteria, and evidence requirements for software, firmware, and hardware product lines.
- Design, code, review, and maintain automated regression, functional, integration, and system tests, simulators, and test frameworks.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with repeatable quality gates and actionable failure diagnostics.
- Investigate complex software and firmware defects by creating reproducible cases, capturing debug output and stack traces, inspecting production code, and driving root-cause analysis.
- Validate fixes and provide evidence-based release-readiness recommendations and QA sign-off.
- Assess, mentor, and coach junior and mid-level QA engineers while advising on staffing and role changes.
- Evaluate user interface and user experience implementations and provide structured development feedback.
- Own test-result reporting, quality metrics, release documentation, requirements traceability, and auditable release evidence repositories.
- Perform laboratory and field testing against product requirements.
- Track automation coverage, escaped defects, test flakiness, detection and resolution times, and release readiness to prioritize improvements.
- Lead execution and continuous refinement of the production test QA process.
Requirements
- United States citizenship is required.
- At least 7 years of combined software development and QA/software test engineering experience, including at least 3 years focused on quality or testing and experience at a senior or technical-lead level.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- A strong hands-on software development foundation, including designing, coding, debugging, and shipping production software.
- Experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Appium, pytest, TestNG, or Robot Framework.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Java, C#, C++, or Go, with the ability to debug production code and build test automation, simulators, and internal tooling.
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
- Experience with API testing and tools such as Postman or REST Assured.
- Working knowledge of the full software development lifecycle and Agile/Scrum.
- Experience testing Android, Windows, embedded or firmware systems, cloud computing, and laptop, handheld, or tablet hardware.
- Ability to assess, mentor, and improve the performance of junior and mid-level QA engineers.
- Experience with embedded, firmware, or hardware testing in defense, industrial, or aerospace environments is desired.
- Familiarity with TestRail, Zephyr, or Jira is desired.
- Experience with performance, load, or stress testing is desired.
- Working knowledge of security testing principles and secure coding practices is desired.
- Experience establishing or materially improving QA processes, automation frameworks, and team practices is desired.
- An active or previously held security clearance is desired.
- Strong communication, collaboration, critical-thinking, problem-solving, curiosity, tenacity, and ability to provide candid constructive feedback are expected.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and an equity opportunity.
- Collaborative, team-centric work environment with opportunities to work on defense and industrial products.
- Work includes both office and outdoor environments, as well as laboratory and field testing.
- The role is based in Starkville, Mississippi.
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About Camgian Corporation
Camgian develops AI/ML software for high‑stakes defense missions, centered on its Reactor platform, which automates kill‑chain and command‑and‑control workflows across air and missile defense, space defense, and counter‑UAS operations. The company sells software and engineering services to U.S. and allied defense programs and supports integration with C2 systems such as IBCS, FAADC2, JADC2, C2BMC, and AEGIS. Founded in 2006, Camgian is privately held and headquartered in Starkville, Mississippi.