System Integration and Test Engineer

About us: What you'll do:

We are excited for a System Integration & Test Engineer to join our team! In this position, you will be working within a systems integration and test team including development operations, systems, and software test engineers. You will be collaborating with software development and network engineering teams in defining and delivering manual and automated test suites for the hardware and software components of a large-scale satellite communications system. You will be responsible for software bug and hardware defect lifecycle tracking as well as system configuration management, and deployment automation. Your work will include defining and documenting software test and software deployment procedures and support testing them in the lab and use in production to update the customer’s network to the latest and greatest software patches. In this role, you may grow into development and maintenance of automated software test, build and deployment processes including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) of new software builds into the lab test system as well as the production environment. Part of your responsibilities may include supporting our technical staff in analyzing and resolving issues reported in the customer network. You may also be responsible for performing complex system testing with multiple customer witnesses in attendance.

The day-to-day:

• Developing and documenting test procedures for various systems
• Performing manual and automated testing and documenting results.
• Identifying, analyzing, and verifying and reporting software bugs and system defects.
• Using configuration management and deployment automation tools to upgrade and patch Linux operating system and Network device patches in the lab and production environments.
• Development of configuration management tasks for operating system configuration changes to include security updates.
• Development of procedures, scripts, and playbooks to automate the update of company software and cots application packages.
• Building software packages and performing vulnerability and security scans on the software bundles

What you'll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5 years’ work experience in systems engineering, test, or development operations.
• Work experience in running manual and automated software test suites including unit, regression, performance, qualification, and acceptance testing.
• Work experience in the development of deployment automation and configuration management playbooks or scripts.
• Work experience in reporting, analyzing, and verifying software or hardware bugs/defects, and improvements
• Work experience writing technical documentation including software deployment procedures, test procedures, test plans and test reports.
• Good working knowledge of software build process and automation principles.
• Good working knowledge of Linux operating systems and being able to administer a Unix/Linux server.
• Good working knowledge and understanding of the TCP/IP protocol and network stack
• Good oral and written communication skills and ability to work effectively with both internal team members (e.g.,SW developers, network engineers, development operations, upper management) and customer representatives
• Must be a US Citizen and have an ability to obtain a security clearance.
• Must be able to come into the Carlsbad, CA office

What will help you on the job:

• 3 years’ experience working with software development, test automation and CI/CD tools such as Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, ArgoCD, Make etc.
• 3 years’ experience or good working knowledge of using, developing, and testing high-level scripts preferably with bash and/or python languages.
• Some work experience with virtualization technologies such as ESXI, OpenStack etc.
• Some work experience working with HP and/or DELL servers, and Cisco network equipment.
• Some work experience working with satellite communication systems
• Work experience or good knowledge of containerization technology structures such as Docker, OpenShift, etc.
• Some work experience with traffic testing and analysis tools
• Some experience working with various test tracking and bug tracking tools such as Jama and Jira.

Salary range: $101,000.00 - $159,500.00 / annually. For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is $125,500.00- $188,500.00/ annually : At Viasat, we consider many factors when it comes to compensation, including the scope of the position as well as your background and experience. Base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Learn more about Viasat’s comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness at https://careers.viasat.com/benefits. EEO statement: