Quality Assurance Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company that provides solutions for engineering, technology, and product development projects. For decades, we’ve been helping our clients develop products that are changing the world, whether that’s by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set a new standard of care, or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. Our team of more than 600 people works across industries including aerospace, medical devices and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicle, electric vehicles, rail, and more. Our offices across the US have different industry focuses and engage with our clients in different ways, ranging from working on-site at client facilities to performing product development at our delivery centers.
 
ALTEN Group, our parent company, has been a leader in engineering and information technology for more than 30 years. ALTEN Group operates in 30 countries across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and employs more than 36,000 people, 88% of whom are engineers. The company covers the whole development cycle and offers a choice of service levels, from technology consulting to complete project outsourcing.
 
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you join a group of people passionate about collaborating to solve some of the world’s most technical engineering challenges. Our success is tied to taking care of our employees by building relationships and providing opportunities for mentorship and career growth. We offer comprehensive benefits for all full-time employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan with employer matching; paid time off (PTO); paid parental leave; and mentorship to help you take your career to the next level. You don’t have to take our word for it that we are a great place to work—we were named on the 2023 Top Workplaces list thanks to feedback from our proud employees.

As Quality Assurance Engineer you will be responsible for;

• Testing the functionality and performance of a robotic manipulation workcell as part of an overall solution.
• Test robotic workcell operation as an independent product being qualified as well as it’s interaction and integration with the robot fleet, gantry workcell and other microservices. Recovering workcell from mechanical and/or software faults.
• Ability to troubleshoot HW/SW/FW to identify failures and translate into well written defects. Ability to recover from failures and maintain a healthy test environment.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain robotic and automated manipulation workcells, and related environments (SW, FW, HW updates) to align with changing test scenarios.
• Testing involves a combination of physical and virtual test environments, therefore expect physical activity (walking, bending, squatting for low profile bots, lifting, pushing). Tests may involve prepping test data virtually via SW tooling or physically via package sets, totes, carts, etc.
• Clearly communicate regular status to QA Lead/Manager and/or development team. Highlight risks or blockers in a timely fashion. Ability to think on your feet to quickly diagnose a situation and determine next steps. Excellent verbal and written communication is critical.
• Collect and analyze data and metrics during or after active testing (logs, dashboards, databases, other web tools) and document observations.
• Self-driven to deliver result and motivated to learn and understand the complex systems being tested (environment configuration, test plan and test data creation, test execution, what we validate/where and why). Able to deal with ambiguity and switch gears/priorities quickly when products or features are early in the maturity cycle.

Qualifications;

• Experience testing in a multi-tier software applications, human machine interaction systems and robotic applications
• Experience with open source test tools, make files and build scripts
• Familiar with hardware-in-the-loop testing with sensors and/or other peripheral devices
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent is required
• 3-5+ years of relevant work experience with software and hardware QA testing is required
• Basic computer skills, understanding of basic programming concepts, including running scripts and basic know of Unix/Linux commands
• Experience with SQL and Python is highly preferred
• Familiarity with software quality engineering best practices
• Experience with bug tracking systems (e.g., JIRA) and test/requirement management systems
• Experience with and understanding of XML and Json

Location: Onsite in Westborough, MA

Salary Range: $85,000 - $105,000

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience 

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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