Job title: Software QA Engineer
Job Location: Goleta, CA 93117
Job Duration: 12+ Months
Pay Range: $60 - $70.00/ hr
Primary Function of Position:
The Engineering Digital, Data Development (D3) Group designs, builds, and deploys medical-grade software, data infrastructure, and applications to enable remote collaboration, device communications, collection, and analysis of medical device machine data from thousands of systems deployed worldwide.
The ideal candidate for the position of Software QA Engineer will have experience in Networking, Product release of software applications, Test Automation, and Quality Assurance best practices and applications.
This position would be responsible for operating within fast-paced initiatives in primarily an Agile development environment. This position requires an individual with strong interpersonal skills, the ability to work effectively and collaboratively with highly technical peers, and the capability to manage workload among changing priorities, alternating between hands-on validation testing, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting.
Roles and Responsibilities:
This position has responsibility and authority for:
- Perform technical planning, system integration, verification, and validation.
- Perform ISO image setup in Windows environment devices.
- Write detailed low-level test cases and test executions.
- Perform test executions and provide detailed results.
- Provide in-depth feedback to Development on requirement/specification clarity and understanding to support proper testing method development.
- Act as a core software QA team member during product definition and design phases, enforcing design aspects for test tools and automation needs.
- Assure proper root cause analysis and drive timely issue resolution of Product Issues
- Execution and support for Product Verification and Validation
- Identify areas for product and process improvements and make recommendations.
- Escalation of issues to internal engineering groups as appropriate
Skill/Job Requirements:
Competency Requirements: (Competency is based on education, training, skills, and experience. To adequately perform the responsibilities of this position, the individual must have:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related discipline desired.
- 3+ years of experience with SQA programs and strategies.
- Good understanding of SDLC and best practices of QA and software development.
- Understanding of design control and design validation.
- Basic understanding of Automation Development & Scripting (Java, Python, batch, shell, Jenkins, etc.)
- Basic knowledge of Windows & Linux Operating systems and Virtualization.
- Experience with JIRA, Test management software/applications, Postman, and network disturbance tools, Selenium (Automation tools).
- Excellent communication (written, verbal, and presentation) skills, and problem-solving orientation and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work with limited guidance in a fast-paced environment.
- Possess excellent time management and prioritization skills.
- Troubleshooting mindset, an ability to systematically and effectively break down a system into subparts or components to identify failure mechanisms.
- Experience with Medical Design Control processes is a plus.
- Excellent documentation skills.
- Some travel may be required.
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