Quality Assurance Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000 experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000 engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

The QAE is responsible for conducting various tests on robotic systems to ensure product quality, performance and reliability. This role is critical to the development of the most advanced robotic fulfillment and sortation systems.

• Testing the functionality and performance of a robotic manipulation workcell as part of an overall solution.
• Test robotic workcell operation as an independent product being qualified as well as it’s interaction and integration with the robot fleet, gantry workcell and other microservices. Recovering workcell from mechanical and/or software faults.
• Ability to troubleshoot HW/SW/FW to identify failures and translate into well written defects. Ability to recover from failures and maintain a healthy test environment.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain robotic and automated manipulation workcells, and related environments (SW, FW, HW updates) to align with changing test scenarios.
• Testing involves a combination of physical and virtual test environments, therefore expect physical activity (walking, bending, squatting for low profile bots, lifting, pushing). Tests may involve prepping test data virtually via SW tooling or physically via package sets, totes, carts, etc.
• Clearly communicate regular status to QA Lead/Manager and/or development team. Highlight risks or blockers in a timely fashion. Ability to think on your feet to quickly diagnose a situation and determine next steps. Excellent verbal and written communication is critical.
• Collect and analyze data and metrics during or after active testing (logs, dashboards, databases, other web tools) and document observations.
• Self-driven to deliver result and motivated to learn and understand the complex systems being tested (environment configuration, test plan and test data creation, test execution, what we validate/where and why). Able to deal with ambiguity and switch gears/priorities quickly when products or features are early in the maturity cycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent is required
• 3-5 years of relevant work experience with software and hardware QA testing is required
• Basic computer skills, understanding of basic programming concepts, including running scripts and basic know of Unix/Linux commands
  • Experience with SQL and Python is highly preferred
• Familiarity with software quality engineering best practices
• Experience with bug tracking systems (e.g., JIRA) and test/requirement management systems
• Experience with and understanding of XML and Json
• Ability to react well to changes, work with multiple teams and multi-task on multiple products and projects
• Must be self-driven, highly motivated and possess strong communication skills in a cross-collaborative environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience testing in a multi-tier software applications, human machine interaction systems and robotic applications
• Experience with open source test tools, make files and build scripts
• Familiar with hardware-in-the-loop testing with sensors and/or other peripheral devices

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