Full Description

The Role

The Software Validation Engineer will define and implement test cases, and contribute to developing a testing framework to validate software components, ensuring the delivery of best-in-class software.

Key Responsibilities

Make independent technical contributions to help their team deliver its commitments. In particular

– Defining general testing and validation practices and processes.

– Designing, developing, and implementing testing and validation plans and procedures for individual artifacts, considering functional and non-functional requirements.

– Championing the implementation of test cases, contributing tests when needed, and ensuring adding these becomes part of the team’s processes. These should include functional, regression, system, and performance tests, and use manual and/or automated techniques as required.

– Ensuring tests are conducted, either through automated solutions or by proper established procedures.

– Coordinating testing and validation for artifact qualification, quality assurance and release.

Interact with colleagues across projects to unblock issues, or to reach consensus on technical topics. In particular

– Work With Software Development Teams To

∗ Integrate testing into all steps of the Software development lifecycle, in particular identifying opportunities for earlier testing.

∗ Collaborate to establish processes and best practices, identify opportunities for automation, and propose and implement the tools and infrastructure that support them or make them possible.

– Work with Software operations teams to implement, evolve and maintain the tooling to support the established processes.

– Work with the IT department to provision, administer, and monitor the infrastructure needed to support testing and validation tools, as well as to make decisions about the purchase of the needed external products.

– Work with Product teams and the CTO office to define testing and validation plans based on functional and non-functional requirements.

– Work with Hardware teams, identifying opportunities to unify the testing and validation infrastructure within the company and contributing to make it happen. In particular, contribute to HW/SW co-validation and efforts to make it happen earlier.

– Work with product, program, strategy, corporate... teams, providing them with tools that give visibility into key metrics of software artifact quality and testing process, allowing strategic decisions and process improvements.

– Work with external companies that provide testing and validation services, becoming the interface with the corresponding leaders on the third party’s side.

– Collaborate with colleagues through code reviews, bug triaging, design documents,...