What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Software Quality Engineer position at Mindlance?
Job Description : Top 5 Required Skills
1. Extensive experience with test case automation
2. Extensive experience with C, Python and / or other test automation programming platforms
3. Experience with Design, develop, execute and maintain software tools and automated test suites for the purpose of verifying quality and compliance
4. Experience using deductive and inductive problem solving
5. Experience and full comfort with communication to large groups or high-level constituents
Technologies
C, Python
Bug tracking systems
Keywords
firmware
python
testing
debug
collaboration with high level stakeholders
Education Requirement
Bachelor's degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
Years of Experience Required
7-11 (9 years is really the baseline, but 7 or 8 years could be OK if they are stellar and have great experience to speak to)
Job Description Overview
Analytical Skills - The ability to collect information and identify fundamental patterns / trends in data. This includes the ability to gather, integrate, and interpret information from several sources.
Building Trusting Relationships - The ability to build trusting, collaborative relationships and rapport with different types of people and businesses. This includes delivering on commitments and maintaining confidential information, as well as being approachable, showing interest in the other person, and relating well to people regardless of personality or background.
Communication - The ability to convey information clearly and accurately, as well as choosing the most effective method of delivery (e.g., email, phone, face-to-face). This includes using a technically sound communication style both verbally and in writing.
Creating the New and Different - The ability to be creative. This includes the ability to produce breakthrough ideas, being a visionary, managing innovation, seeing multiple futures, having broad interests and knowledge, and gaining support in order to translate new ideas into solutions. This also includes the ability to plan and implement unconventional ideas and speculate about alternative futures without all of the data.
Decision Making - The ability to make quick, accurate decisions. This includes the ability to weigh alternatives and take into account the impact of the decisions on people, equipment, or other resources.
Getting Organized - The ability to be organized, resourceful, and planful. This includes the ability to leverage multiple resources to get things done and Client out tasks in sufficient detail. This also includes the ability to get things done with fewer resources and in less time, work on multiple tasks at once without losing track, and foresee and plan around obstacles.
Taking Initiative - The ability to attack work activities with drive and energy, understanding the impact of work on key metrics, and making decisions that are in the company's best interest. This includes not being afraid to initiate action before all the facts are known, and driving value-added work tasks to completion.
Results Documentation - The ability to document test results across an entire platform, domain, or department. This includes understanding department-wide test cases to make sure systems are working properly, providing support to a larger team to debug complex errors, and reporting high-level results to senior leaders and stakeholders.
Systems Test Engineering - The ability to plan and design tests for proper integration of systems components and features, including knowledge of the system under test. This also includes the ability to perform cost / benefit analysis for types of testing to be employed versus potential systems errors, consult on approaches and tools for testing compatibility with other features, analyze test executions and results, implement improvements to testing process and tools, and provide time, effort, and resource estimates for thorough testing.
Time Management - The ability to quickly prioritize mission-critical from less important or trivial work activities. This includes sensing what the next most useful thing is to work on, and focusing on the critical few tasks that add value while putting aside or delaying the rest.
Troubleshooting - The ability to detect malfunctions in daily operations, including scheduling issues and process problems, and determining root causes and appropriate solutions for operating errors. This also includes the ability to detect malfunctions or the need for repair and adjustment to various types of equipment and implement corrective actions and track their success.
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