What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software QA Engineer III position at Iridium?
What We’re Looking For:
If you are an experienced QA Engineer who thrives on working independently to deliver high-quality test designs, plans, and cases while driving projects to completion, you will love working as a Quality Assurance Engineer III at Iridium! In this role, you will focus primarily on Operations Support Systems, test automation, satellite communication products, complex server side application testing, and programming scripts for the Billing Operations System application stack. You will excel in this role if you are a team player, are able to understand large and complex systems, and have a passion for finding software coding and design bugs.
What You’ll Do:
- Be responsible for collaborating in the design, development, and execution of test plans and test cases
- Drive testing efforts for the major releases, patches and hot-fixes in an agile work environment
- Identify testing tasks for user stories and document the acceptance criteria for user stories
- Recognize issues pertaining to software coding and design bugs and craft/propose solutions to them
- Identify new feature functional test cases that may need to be automated
- Participate in backlog grooming, sprint planning, technical design discussions, and daily stand up meetings to ensure successful sprints
- Investigate and troubleshoot application errors in test environments and resolve any configuration issues
- Perform peer reviews for test plans/cases developed by your peers
- Automating updates and maintenance of existing scripts, and identifying and implementing new automation features for each release
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer information systems or related field OR
- equivalent relevant experience (4 years) in lieu of degree
- 5 years of relevant experience working on full lifecycle software development projects and
- activities
- 3 years of experience in Software QA Analyst or Engineer role
- 2 years of experience in Automation in applications such as Selenium, Cucumber, SOAPUI, and JSON
- Programming skills / automation skills are required with Python, perl, Java
- Experience testing SOAP and or REST Webservice calls
- Hands-on work experience with Unix and SQL/Oracle
- Proficiency with SQL queries and database structures and the ability to perform SQL queries to
- validate test scripts
- Solid understanding of server-side testing, Unix environments, and working with various
- database technologies
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to confidently present products, deliverables,
- analyses, and/or issues
- Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think
- critically to make decisions or come up with solutions
- Be comfortable managing upward, including being a proactive communicator and asking for
- help when needed
- Have confidence and be able to establish valuable relationships with others
- Must be able to prioritize key tasks and have a strong sense of ownership over your work
- Be active in seeking out ways to continuously improve yourself and gain new knowledge
Things That Would be Great if You Brought to the Table:
- Experience working with Oracle or any other OSS/BSS system
We’ll also need you to:
- Be able to work a hybrid schedule that includes at least 3 days a week in office to foster collaboration with the team and stakeholders
- May occasionally work off hours to communicate with offshore team members
- Be on call as needed
