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Software QA Engineer

Software QA Engineer

CompanySMX
LocationBoulder, CO, USA
Salary$103200 – $172000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience in quality assurance/test roles of high reliability/mission critical systems.
  • Adept at test design including both positive and negative functional testing, as well as performance testing.
  • Demonstrated ability to diagnose software issues.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Attention to detail.
  • This position will require the ability to achieve a U.S. government DoD Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and execute manual and automated test procedures.
  • Work within the team to support continuous improvement to testing processes.
  • Perform exploratory testing of the UI functionality, assessing usability and other emergent attributes of the system to ensure a high quality end product for the mission users.
  • Lead and/or participate in problem isolation and root cause analysis efforts within the system.
  • Maintain quality metrics such as defect rates and work with software development teams on wholistic strategies to remove/preclude defects from entering the system.
  • Interface with higher levels of integration teams (e.g. system, enterprise) as well as end users to represent the software quality and functionality.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Currently active U.S. government DoD security clearance
  • Proficiency with the following tools/technologies: K8s/OpenShift, Prometheus/Tempo/Grafana, Python, Automated test tools (e.g. Playwright, Cucumber)