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Software QA Automation Engineer III
| Company | AeroVironment |
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| Location | Simi Valley, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $89630 – $127050 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in related discipline is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Minimum 5 – 8 years of relevant experience
- Experienced in Software QA automation
- Experienced in building and optimizing automation frameworks
- Experienced performing code reviews and mentoring team members on automation concepts and best practices
Responsibilities
- Participates in the design, expansion and maintenance of automated testing suite
- Defines and plan scope, resource needs, benchmarks and goals of manual & automation work
- Defines and implement QA practices, procedures, standards and reporting
- Identifies project risks, quantify risk/benefit relationships and provide alternative solutions as well as risk mitigation
- Designs test plans, scenarios and cases to exercise new functionality & identify breaking issues
- Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, cloud-based or Internet-related computer programs
- Partners with resources as needed to validate software with project timeline
- Mentors less experienced team members on QA/QC concepts, methodologies and best practices
- Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors
- Other duties as assigned
Preferred Qualifications
- Champions quality by forging influential relationships across QA, Development, Product, and DevOps
- Demonstrates strong debugging / problem resolution skills, and competency in multitasking and handling multiple time critical issues / projects simultaneously
- Demonstrates passion to continuously improve and execute tests for a faster and higher quality result
- Is an experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways
- Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
- Able to excel in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, where small teams share a broad variety of duties
- Displays strong initiative and drive to accomplish goals and meet company objectives
- Takes ownership and responsibility for current and past work products
- Is committed to learning from mistakes and driven to improve and enhance performance of oneself, others, and the company
- Has effective interpersonal and communication skills
- Focuses on teamwork, collaboration and puts the success of the team above one’s own interests
