Software Engineer in Test

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate Software Engineer in Test to join our simulation team. You will have the chance to work in a dynamic environment, learn new skills, and grow in your career.

The simulation environment is where we bring Vention’s digital twins to life in the browser: actuator motion, sensors, collisions, and performance are all simulated in an interactive, real-time, 3D digital environment.

In this position, you will play a critical role in driving quality assurance practices and infrastructure for Vention’s authoring platform. Your work will be instrumental in implementing manual and automated testing strategies to support our development cycle and deployment pipelines, as well as assuring and measuring product integrity and quality in our live systems.

Working in a highly collaborative environment, you will work closely with product management, development managers, developers, and business stakeholders to assure the testability of new features, guarantee the quality of features being developed, and ensure they meet requirements and specifications.

Responsibilities

• Assume ownership of quality assurance for the simulation workspace within Vention’s cloud-based design & automation tools, MachineBuilder & MachineLogic
• Design and build test cases, prioritize testing requirements and communicate risk for cases not covered by testing
• Work with other teams to help ensure end-to-end integration testing is well documented and has sufficient coverage for cross-team projects.
• Implement test automation strategies (frameworks, harnesses, continuous integration) to enable test-authoring in day-to-day development & QA activities
• Design QA data pipelines to ensure testing environments are set up with representative data to cover agreed-upon test coverage
• Build QA automation dashboards to report on test coverage and overall quality metrics
• Participate in PR reviews to drive quality practices with the engineering team
• Participate in agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, backlog reviews & sprint demonstrations
• Ensure test plans have an automation roadmap based on expected consistency of a feature set

Requirements

• Experience with test automation tools such as Cypress, Selenium, QASE, Postman, etc.
• Strong development background in automation scripting, data management and automation. (JavaScript, Python/node.js/Java, intermediate SQL skills, JSON, XML, etc.)
• Extensive experience in software testing, QA methodologies, testing processes and testing tools
• Excellent documentation skills to build and maintain test documentation and have a clear understanding of test coverage for any testing playbook
• Strong communication skills to work cooperatively with developers, managers and project stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, detail-oriented mindset, and patience in finding and identifying bugs
• Eager to show ownership and improve products incrementally while being mindful of business priorities
• Proficiency with Mac & Linux operating systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Nice to have: Familiarity with CAD tools such as Solidworks, Inventor, or Fusion360