Senior System Test Engineer

Business Unit:

Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details:

Cubic offers an opportunity to provide innovative technology for government and commercial customers around the globe, helping to solve their future problems today. We're the leading integrator of payment and information technology and services for intelligent travel solutions worldwide, and the leading provider of realistic combat training systems, secure communications and networking and highly specialized support services for military and security forces of the U.S. and allied nations. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and thrive in an innovative environment, we want to talk to you about your next role at Cubic! We are seeking employees inspired by technology, and motivated by the rewards of hard work, commitment, teamwork, quality, integrity, and respect. We invite you to explore opportunities with Cubic.

Job Details:

Job Summary: The Senior Systems Test Engineer is responsible for the technical planning, coordination, conduct, and execution of test activities at the system level across one or more complex products or projects. The incumbent will work with multiple internal engineering teams to develop system requirements analysis, system configuration data, and automated and/or manual test cases to ensure that required system performance and reliability standards are designed in and verified. Will drive design, development, and test activities from the system requirements view. Additional duties include the implementation of tools suitable for increasing the efficiency of system testing, developing and tracking system test metrics. This position typically works under general supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will exercise discretionary decision-making authority.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works with engineering leads to develop system requirements and verifies compliance with performance and reliability standards.
• Works closely with management to develop and coordinate system test concepts and objectives.
• Assigns and delegates test activities to other test personal and drives their day-to-day activities.
• Develops test plans, cases, procedures, and reports.
• Identifies test resources to meet schedule dates. May develop and manage test budgets and schedules.
• Prepares test status reports and presents status to management and customers.
• Partners with Program Management to conduct the test readiness and post test reviews.
• Traces complex system requirements from customer specifications to test cases and validates requirements through test execution.
• Assists in the development and maintenance of the System Test Environment (STE).
• Conducts integration and formal system tests.
• Maintains the test requirements database.
• Provides technical guidance, mentoring, and training to junior test personnel.
• Keeps abreast of improvements in system test engineering techniques.
• Interfaces with customers, contractors, and vendors.
• May evaluate third-party or vendor capabilities to provide required products or services.
• Interfaces with hardware, software, and systems engineers to evaluate test alternatives.
• Interfaces with the QA organization to perform any corrective actions resulting from reviews and audits.
• Identifies and documents defects, defines severity and priority, and assists with triaging and investigating issues.
• Drives and implements improvement to testing efficiency, quality, and effectiveness.
• Interfaces with customer representatives during through the product or program lifecycle.
• Performs other system test engineering duties as required to meet contractual requirements.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Four-year college degree in engineering/computer science/information systems/other related technical discipline OR equivalent years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Five (5) + years of experience, or a Master of Science degree plus three years of experience.
• Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to analyze complex problems and multitask.
• Must be a detail-oriented, analytical, and creative thinker with a passion for quality and testing.
• Requires knowledge of system test engineering and knowledge of software compilers, architecture, embedded processing, operating systems, and/or mobile devices.
• Must have the ability to analyze and test complex engineering software, and be able to prioritize and conduct multiple tasks under deadline and budget constraints. Use of standard hand tools, and special and general-purpose test equipment.
• Ability to use typical PC software such as word processors, databases, flowcharts, project schedulers, and spreadsheets.
• Experience with tools & applications (JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, Git, and Artifactory/Maven).

Desired:

• Experience with JAVA, C/C++, C#, TCP/IP, UNIX, Visual Basic, and SQL Queries.
• Understanding of XML, databases, and SQL.
• Understanding of API testing with SOAP, and REST.
• Experience with test processes, open source test frameworks, test design strategies, writing test cases, and automating tests in Java with frameworks like JUnit/TestNG, Selenium, JMeter, and Appium.
• Experience with Jenkins or other continuous integration systems.

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

Additional Information

(San Diego only***) Targeted full-time [salary/hourly] range between $116,799 - $147,268 + benefits.

***Note: Disclosure of the pay scale data as required by Labor Code Section 432.3.

The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Worker Type:

Employee