Associate Engineer, Software Test

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

The Software Test Engineer participates in the testing activities for industry-leading commercial software known for its innovation and usability. In particular high performance real-time scalable features based on Rockwell’s Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that are often integrated with machine automation and control systems as well as ERP software.
Assignments include participation in requirements development, architectural design of automated test systems, effort estimation, design, coding, and verification of automated test systems in all stages of the software development lifecycle.
This role includes collaboration with multiple global cross-functional teams and requires strong communications skills and ability to work effectively in the large project teams.
Joining Rockwell Automation Software Development group allows to become part of a team that is committed to use reliable and well-thought-out engineering and software development practices (such as Agile/SCRUM and SAFe) as well as open and direct communications, honesty and respect.

Essential Functions ​

• Designs, creates, executes and maintains tests
• Participates in reviews of documents, designs and test cases
• Develops automated tests, monitors the results and reports software defects
• Develops test documentation required by software development process
• Supports the team in functional and system requirements analysis required to design and verify added and changed functionality
• Provides work estimates and status reports as requested.
• Maintains adequate interaction to ensure assigned tasks are prioritized appropriately.
• Facilitates effective communication both within local team as well as with remote stakeholders 
   
  Desired Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• At least 2 years of experience on tester position in a software product development environment
• Experience with test automation and scripting languages (preferred Marathon or Selenium)
• Knowledge in test management tools (e.g. qTest)
• Knowledge of virtualized environments, distributed computing, load balancing/sharing
• Familiarity with common development tools as Eclipse, SVN, GitLab, JUnit, JIRA, Jenkins, ANT and Maven
• Domain knowledge in the field of Industrial Automation including MES applications
• Good interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Familiar with agile development processes
• Communicative English, that enables collaboration with global team

Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.