Test Automation Engineer (Python)

Title:Test Automation Engineer (Python)
Location: Florham Park, NJ or Morrisville, NC. Local candidates only.
**For Florham Park: US citizens and US permanent residents ONLY due to Navy restrictions in the labs.**
Schedule: M-F, 8:00am-5:00pm; onsite required -4 days per week in office a must
**During ramp up period- 5 days per week onsite required.
Duration: 6 months with possible extension of another 6 months.
Job Description:
We are seeking a strong and versatile software engineer who is driven to design, develop, and support our Test Automation efforts. Our electronics test team is focused on developing tools and applications used to support automated testing and qualification of transfer switch and/or Power Control System products and components. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and motivated by the idea of working on custom solutions with cutting edge technologies that make a difference. The candidate will be a part of the Electronics Engineering team.
Responsibilities:

• Work through all phases of the software product development lifecycle (gathering requirements, design, development, testing, validation, and maintenance) in an agile environment.
• Analyze, enhance, customize, and adapt current products and solutions for testing electronic control and communication products.
• Develop tools (both software and hardware) to automate the collection of test data and/or facilitate system configurations and troubleshooting
• Develop new test scripts in python.
• Read requirements
• Write test cases
• Write test scripts covering test cases
• Debug and troubleshoot test scripts
• Fix automated test scripts (if any problems found)
• Establish, monitor, and maintain automated testing scripts and framework.
• Improve code base.
• Design more efficient testing.
• Utilize Agile Development in cooperation with project team members and participates in daily Scrum and tri-weekly Sprint close/open
• Performs periodic code review and version control and maintains good documentation of the product under test/development.
• Tests solutions in controlled, real situations before releasing to production.
• Run test cases
• Provide test results
• Investigate defects found by tests
• Submit defects found by tests
  Develops test and qualification strategies, and procedures.
  Conducts industry research on new technology and solutions.
  Configure automated tests to execute reliably and efficiently in CI/CD environments.
• Developing and executing test plans: Maintaining and expanding our existing Test Automation framework and test coverage.

MUST HAVE:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent
• 4+ years of progressive software engineering experience working with python, or other object oriented languages
• Strong software development experience for both product development and testing.
• Comfort architecting new software solutions and developing requirements documents.
• Experience conducting manual/automated test.
• Experience with test driven development.
• Familiarity with source control tools (GIT, Subversion, etc).
• Familiarity utilizing bug tracking and requirement tools (Jira, Jama, etc.).
• Experience testing embedded systems (Hardware and Software/Firmware).
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

Additional Desired Qualifications:

• Experience communicating with other engineers and managing defects discovered on the testing process.
• Experience developing cross-platform applications
• Experience working with Qt applications and Squish test framework.
• Working knowledge of CAN, USB, RS232, R485, Ethernet and/or other communication
  networking interfaces
• Experience with industrial communications protocols such as MODBUS.
• Experience with lab equipment (power supply, meters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.
• Excellent written and oral communication (procedures, requirements and reports)

For Florham Park, NJ: Must be US Citizen or Permanent resident due to working on site for access to gov't site with the Navy.
Saransh Singh
(973)360-8348
Saransh.singh@artech.com