Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Sr SDET)

Vicarious Surgical is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Sr SDET) to join its growing Software Test Team! This critical team member will be responsible for planning, designing, developing frameworks and procedures to automate testing on our surgical robot system.

You will work in a diverse team of software engineers, hardware engineers and the core leadership team in an agile development environment creating a scalable plan for the future of test automation supporting multiple releases.

This is a great opportunity to help lay the foundation for a function that will shape the development of Vicarious Surgical’s product for years to come. If you are interested, please apply today.

Responsibilities

• Develop test frameworks and automated functional tests to provide end-to-end smoke and regression test coverage of embedded robotic systems.
• Work with engineers from multiple disciplines to understand the overall technical architecture and how each feature is implemented.
• Participate in product technical design discussions and product design reviews to identify needs and test candidates for automation.
• Work with other Quality Engineers, Developers, and Product Owners to understand requirements for an area of work and translate those requirements into test cases.
• Support continuous testing during Sprint at appropriate milestones during development to test new feature development and identify software defects.
• Work with DevOps team to integrate automation with continuous integration (Jenkins) and test reporting systems. 

About You

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in software test automation related to embedded systems.
• Experience writing test software that interfaces with hardware.
• Expertise in C, C++, Java or Python, and industry standard automation software frameworks.
• Knowledge and experience with Continuous Development/Continuous Integration (CI/CD) preferably using Jenkins.
• Excellent knowledge and proficiency in automation technology methods, techniques, and strategies.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodology and tools, with demonstrated experience in a Software Development Engineer in Test or Automation Engineer role.
• Positive can-do demeanor and inculcates the same with other team members.
• Has worked in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Cucumber framework.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as JUnit, Jest, karate, etc
• Familiarity with Jira, Git and agile development methodology
• Experience working on surgical systems.
• Experience working with robotics.
• Ability to mentor newer or junior team members.
• Knowledge of software testing in the medical device industry is a plus.

Together, we share a love for learning and we are passionate teachers.  As a company, we set ambitious goals and individually, we share in that ambition. At the office, we enjoy each other’s company during monthly social, catered lunches and company celebrations.

Please note that at Vicarious Surgical, we follow COVID-19 safety protocol, which may include compliance with vaccination, testing and masking requirements.