Sr Engineer, Portal Integration Test

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer including Vets and Disabled
Your role in helping us shape the future:
You will play a vital role in the creation and upkeep of all Automated and Manual testing endeavors. As an integral part of the release cycle, you will partner with developers, internal business owners, and other departments to define and influence the overall performance of our products.
Are you up to the challenge?

• Work with System design, product, and development to build testing and validation test plans.
• Collaborate with product, design and broader engineering team on feature and functionality definitions.
• Use product requirements, system engineering requirements and BDD/TDD test techniques to translate requirements into testcases.
• Identify and drive the implementation of best in class testing best practices.
• Share your technical expertise and provide risk assessments in the various design, test plan, quality, and capability readiness reviews.

Can you drive these processes?

• Design system-level test plans, create schedules, execute test cases (manual and automated) and provide regular status updates on QA activities.
• Execute procedures that validate product features, using test plans and functional specifications, based on the system requirements.
• Work with the cross functional teams to resolve issues found throughout the SDLC and provide detailed test execution records.
• Maintain accurate QA metrics/dashboards, participate in quality reviews, and identify improvement opportunities.
• Capable of handling multiple concurrent projects; comfortable coordinating the work of multiple engineers on complex projects.

You should definitely have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline with 8+ years of work experience

• Use of test management and defect management tools like Zephyr and JIRA.
• Working knowledge on CI tools like Jenkins to align with Dev-Ops Deployment process.
• Experience with large-scale multi-tiered systems and service-oriented architecture, third-party cloud-based testing.

• Understanding of modern web application architecture utilizing decoupled modules and independent subsystems.
• Demonstrated ability to establish priorities and balance multiple objectives.
• Strong attention to detail & ability to work in a self-directed environment.
• Basic understanding of networks and components: modem, switches, routers, and firewalls.

It would be nice if you had:

• System Engineering and system integration experience a plus.
• Telecommunications experience a plus.
• Knowledge on scripting languages such as Python or Ruby a plus
• Good understanding of databases with some experience with SQL and NoSQL.

What it's like to work with us:
Intelsat is connecting the world and transforming the satellite and inflight connectivity landscape by reaching beyond the traditional satellite industry. We are defining new products that will open new, profitable markets. We connect the aviation industry and air travelers with innovative technology and applications, and we do it all in a high-energy environment that welcomes the next challenge. To help us reach this goal, you should be a bold thinker who will perform a key role in shaping Intelsat innovation for years to come.

• We emphasize personal and professional growth
• Awesome benefits including PTO, medical, tuition reimbursement, and training
• Flexible work arrangements
• Fun, diverse, and inclusive culture

About Us:
We're Intelsat Inflight, the inflight internet company. We believe the internet should do everything it does on the ground, in the sky. Our worldwide inflight Wi-Fi services have made internet and video entertainment a regular part of flying. We are a diverse and mission-minded group of professionals all working together in extraordinary harmony. We connect the aviation industry and air travelers with innovative technology and applications, and we do it all in a high-energy environment that welcomes the next challenge. Be prepared to join a performance-obsessed team that is passionate about bringing the internet to every device, every flight, everywhere.
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