Sr. Software Test Engineer

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 25,000 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.

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Job Description

Rockwell is looking for a Sr Software Test Quality Engineer to join an agile team building the next generation of analytics for Industrial Automation. We are looking for someone who has the drive and the initiative to jump into the product to develop product specific expertise, is experienced in design and execution of Test Plans, is attentive to details, has excellent written and oral communication skills, has worked in an Agile process, is customer focused, has experience meeting the demands of enterprise customers, and has basic computational experience in analytics. Experience in the industrial sector is a huge plus.

Position Summary:

The Senior Software Test Quality Engineer is responsible for upholding the Quality bar for the Machine Learning (ML) Analytics software. The ideal candidate is responsible to work closely with the Product Owner and Engineers to gather requirements for test design, execute test plans, perform manual and automated testing of existing and new features, and have the interest and ability to lead advanced QE projects related to the implementation of ML for Industrial Automation. You will work closely with the global teams and support. Responsibilities include verifying and reproducing customer reported issues, conduct anomaly triage meetings, and owning the anomaly backlog. As a Senior QE, you will mentor junior QE on best practices for manual and automated testing. The candidate will use tools such as JIRA, QTest, Excel, and PowerPoint to create dashboards for quality metrics.

Responsibilities:

• Participate and contribute to the full lifecycle of software development from planning to release
• Participate in Agile Scrum and Stand-ups, lead test design, plan, and execution at triage sessions
• Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to gather requirements for test design
• Continuously produce, review, and enhance test documentation
• Lead release testing activities
• Learn current and new functionality of the product with a goal to improve product quality
• Report anomalies with precise title, description, and steps for anomaly reproduction for developers
• Conduct anomaly triage meetings
• Ownership of end-to-end feature testing, test strategies, and anomaly backlog
• Actively contribute to release timelines with testing estimation, prioritization, and anomaly tracking
• Manage a small virtual infrastructure for test environment
• Follow Rockwell Automation's SDLC processes
• Maintain thorough documentation for existing and new quality procedures
• Collaborate with geographically distributed teams
• Able to work closely with product manager and developers
• Contribute to and promote good software quality engineering practices across the team
• Troubleshoot and resolve system problems and customer issues

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in test plan design and execution, preferably focused on analytics products
• Experience developing software and automated tests and tools in Python
• Hands-on experience with common tools for test automation
• Experience in performance testing (load, stress, reliability, and longevity)
• Experience using tools like JIRA, Confluence, QTest, Selenium WebDriver
• Experience testing products that interface with the ControlLogix platform or other industrial control systems
• Experience with troubleshooting industrial communications (such as CIP and Ethernet/IP)
• Experience managing source code using GIT
• Knowledge of release and regression testing methodologies
• Excellent problem-solving skills and written and oral communication skills
• Ability to coordinate tasks with remote development teams
• Well versed in Agile practices
• Passion for testing with the "break it" mentality
• Familiarity with thin (HTML5) client applications with significant back-end math processing
• Experience with managing, booting up and decommissioning virtual machines and their snapshots in private or public (Azure) cloud
• Should be familiar with Linux and its operation
• Familiarity with command line scripting

*This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

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