Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer Job Description
Test engineer / senior test engineer
provides engineering and technical support in the identification, assessment, evaluation and testing of existing and emerging technologies, systems, and capabilities.
Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Assist in development of automated test environments and QA strategies
Platform and Protocols testing of layer-2 , Layer-3, MPLS , SDN and NFV(Virtualization) features on SSR
You Test the implementation – against RFCs, Standards , Customer use cases, Robustness scenarios
Test automation using Perl or Python
You work closely with development teams to traige failures, verify images with bug fixes
Interaction with product management, software/hardware development team, and System & Technology to understand customer and product requirements
Execute and advise on automated testing
Execute manual integration, system, and performance tests
Develop, run and maintain both manual and automated tests across multiple products
Design and execute performance/load tests
Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ISTQB, ISO, QA, DAU, 9000, II, IAT, ITIL, STD, STP
Education for Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the test engineer / senior test engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technical, Electrical Engineering, Education, Computer Engineering, Science, Computer, Physics, Information Systems
Skills for Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer
Desired skills for test engineer / senior test engineer include:
Architectures and technical standards
IT concepts
Methodologies
Strategies
Automated testing tool Test complete 11+
Core Java
Engineering processes and procedures
ISO 17025 accreditation
Jira 6.4 and ALM 11.0 to track tasks and Defects
New and emerging technologies
Desired experience for test engineer / senior test engineer includes:
Drive day to day activities related to all aspects of product qualification
Experience planning capital and lab needs in order to achieve qualification goals
Experience working in a distributed engineering environment
Knowledge of storage networking architectures and applications including HA and Clustered solutions
Able to participate meaningfully in technical deep-dives into module designs, product architectures, business requirements and supportability requirements
Proven project management, interpersonal, leadership and communication skills, with high attention to detail
Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer Examples
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Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a test engineer / senior test engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for test engineer / senior test engineer
- Interact with the user community during the system demonstrations phases while gathering the requirements for enhancements and for testing the new features
- Provide technical support to training team for RFMSS ROPD courses with practical exercises and testing
- Defect tracking in Adobe LifeCycle Manager (ALM) – Quality Center
- Automated test and regression test script development – Unified Functional Testing (UFT)
- Plan and execute tests of chillers and components
- Participate in the development of and/or receive test specifications from customer group
- Work with Test & Facilities Management team, customer groups, and other resources to actively manage the test from set up to completion
- Upon test completion perform or see to the collation and processing of all data (this will occur during testing)
- Create, validate and maintain test automation scripts
- Act as test lead and responsible to generate and execute test strategy, test report, test planning
Qualifications for test engineer / senior test engineer
- Good Experience with RF IC testing on commercial ATE customized test bench
- Good experience on ATE (such as Catalyst, with HP93k is a plus) and custom test setups
- Responsible for the functional, non-functional and user acceptance testing of core IT and Newsroom systems
- The candidate should be hands-on and familiar with test techniques and methods for a variety of computer, storage and networking product types
- Experience in test code development, test support and data collection
- Demonstrated experience with high-level software design
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Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer Job Description
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of test engineer / senior test engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for test engineer / senior test engineer
- To assist the process providing NATA test reports and expertise to external organisations forming an essential part of the electrical product approvals schemes governed by law in each state of Australia
- To be a NATA signatory for multiple Standards related to electrical safety testing
- To test appliances, accessories and equipment to determine their compliance with Standards or as per customer’s requirements
- To prepare a written report of results, assessments, and observations obtained from testing for preparation of certified test certificates for use by other organisations
- To maintain an accurate record of the time spent and/or invoiced amount, assessing the suitability of appliances, equipment and accessories for inclusion in the laboratory’s monthly report and for determining the testing schedule of fees
- To assist the Business Manager in checking reports done by test engineers and technicians as per AS ISO/IEC 17025 requirements
- To assist the Business Manager in giving guidance and training to junior staff as required
- To assist the Business Manager as Team leader to oversee projects from other test engineers under his/her guidance
- To be accountable for designated key clients
- To be directly accountable for the test equipment being used
Qualifications for test engineer / senior test engineer
- Help and advise the team on how best to validate functionality
- AA or AS degree in IT, Information Systems, CS, or Computer Engineering preferred
- Shall have ten (10) years’ experience using automated test tools and related CASE applications, such as Rational TeamTest, Rational ClearQuest, WinRunner
- Experience in implementation Projects including modules related to Sales, Finance, Manufacturing, Distribution, Purchasing, Product Information Management, HR as the very least
- 1+ year of Python design experience
- 7 + years of experience with software quality assurance required
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Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a test engineer / senior test engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for test engineer / senior test engineer
- Participate independently in Engineering Design Reviews and help drive the implementation of test methodologies and guidelines
- Perform minimal manual testing
- Responsible for creating reports and tracking errors/defects
- Work with developers, end users and organizations to create test plans and test-scripts
- Manage the defect database under the guidance of senior QA engineers
- Principles testing WESTRACE/Relay/Mechanical Interlockings
- Set to Work’ and control table Test on site and through to field equipment
- Manage controlled changeover and modifications to existing systems including stage works
- Assist TiC in production of testing plans and certifications
- Responsible for checking and certifying principles testing activities
Qualifications for test engineer / senior test engineer
- Be an excellent team player with lead capability/experience
- Hands on programming experience and SME on Microsoft System Center virtualization product line
- Candidate must possess at least Bachelor Degree in Electrical/ Electronic Engineering with minimum two (2) years of working experience in High Volume Semiconductor Manufacturing environment preferably in Test Product Engineering role
- BE/BTech/ME/MTech/M.S
- BS in Engineering with 5+ years’ experience supporting engineering development, NPI, or high-mix production
- Demonstrated proficiency with the National Instruments LabView platform
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Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a test engineer / senior test engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for test engineer / senior test engineer
- Independently implement Corrective Actions aimed at process/quality/cost improvements
- Support manufacturing’s technical personnel in the debug of low to high complexity assemblies and/or low to medium complexity systems
- Assist in defining Design for Testability (DFT) guidelines and drive implementation during the hardware design process
- Support QA service delivery and overall responsibility for the AES applications QA BoW
- Responsible for driving testing strategy and principles set
- Endorse improvement in the quality of test cases
- Develop business and product knowledge over time and share such knowledge to mentor newer team members
- Proactive and timely communication with manager and tech leads, identifying and raising risks and potential issues
- Support QA service delivery and overall responsibility for the SOR applications QA BoW
- Working from approved Test Plans and Test Procedures, oversee the planning, design and fabrication of development and production test systems
Qualifications for test engineer / senior test engineer
- Familiarity with simulation and fault grading tools preferred
- Ability to perform loadboard schematic design is a strong advantage
- Ability to drive system and process implementation
- Team player, flexible and results oriented
- Demonstrated high level of initiative and drive
- Must be a U.S. citizen with Secret Department of Defense IT level 1 security clearance
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Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a test engineer / senior test engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for test engineer / senior test engineer
- Works closely with developers while testing new functionality
- Works in a very agile (SCRUM) environment
- Reviews new functionality for usability by customer and provides feedback to Analyst and Developer
- Provides new functionality demonstrations or overviews to customer
- Creates and executes software test plans in the test repository
- Designs, develops and executes feature tests and user story tests
- Accurately documents test results, diagnose and debug problems and tracks resolution
- Coordinates feature testing with other development organizations
- Builds and executes test automation to increase effectiveness and quality of delivery
- Participates in project planning, code demos and other forms of team quality procedures
Qualifications for test engineer / senior test engineer
- Significant experience with system-level test case development and execution
- Skilled in the deployment, configuration and optimization of enterprise applications in test or production environments using Windows Server, Linux and VMWare operating systems
- Experience and working knowledge of networking and storage protocol standards such as IPv4, IPv6, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, SNMP, Ethernet, FC, iSCSI
- Proficient with industry standard I/O load simulation tools such as IOMeter, Loadgen, FIO
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering with at least 6 years enterprise hardware system test experience in x86 servers
- Enterprise Hardware system test experience with networking and internal storage products