Job Summary

We are seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to develop and implement testing processes, automation tools and best practices to test a new class of product, verify regression functionality and validate system performance. The candidate will work closely with the engineering team to ensure that software releases are tested for functionality and regression. The lead SDET will also validate the functionality and performance of updated and new platform(hardware) configurations.

This position reports to Sr. Director of Software Engineering.

Responsibilities and Duties

· Responsible for leading the development and implementation of the software testing process, automation framework and associated tooling for our product set including controls, autonomy, communications, machine vision and system interfaces.

· Provide timely reporting on product qualification status and system performance metrics to functional teams and senior management.

· Work closely with product management to deliver committed software releases and to validate feature performance against design specifications.

· Participate as a multi-disciplinary engineering leader.

· Maintain testing documentation and assist in the development of user documentation.

· Work cross-functionally with technical teams developing autonomy, communications, perception, system interfaces and hardware to execute functional testing, system integration verification and performance validation on new products in automated simulation and in vessel trials.

Qualifications and Skills

· Must be U.S. citizen or Permanent resident/Green card holder.

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or a similar discipline.

· 5+ years of experience working as a SDET with automation tools knowledge, including such tools as Selenium, Postman, Jmeter, Appium, or others.

· Experience creating test plans and generating test cases using test plan management tools such as TestRail.

· Recent exposure to a startup environment building a test framework, including automation, from the ground up in a new product space.

· Experience testing a product with a machine learning component highly desired.

· Demonstrated skills using code repositories and Atlassian tools (Git, JIRA, Confluence, or similar tools).

· Demonstrated skills with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Testing (CT), and Continuous Deployment (CD) systems

· Proficiency using both Linux and Windows operating systems and familiarity with embedded systems.

· Experience with C, C#, C++, Python, SQL.

· Experience running endurance test.

· Excellent analytical and program solving skills, excellent written and oral communication, self-starter and highly motivated.