Test Engineer III - Iridium Satellite, LLC

What We’re Looking For:

If you are an experienced Test Engineer, then get excited about an excellent opportunity to join Iridium's Solutions Validation team as a Test Engineer III! In this role you will perform research, development, testing, and sustaining engineering activities of Iridium services. As a Test Engineer III, you’ll be responsible for verifying the reliability and robustness of Iridium products and communication services and will conduct development activities related to our test automation efforts. You will be successful in this role if you have a keen desire to learn and a passion for software and hardware test engineering. Don't miss out on this opportunity to join an innovative and dynamic team at the forefront of satellite communications technology!

What You’ll Do:

Work collaboratively with software, hardware, and system development engineers to ensure high product quality

Decompose requirements into verifiable test objectives

Perform integration, maintenance, and operation of system hardware, lab hardware, and software systems

Conduct implementation and maintenance of communication products automated test system and software

Develop scripts and/or systems to automatically test and validate products, collect test artifacts, produce product test metrics and generate reports

Recreate and isolate reported software and/or hardware defects using test infrastructure and document non-compliances

Research and implement hardware upgrades of ground infrastructure and test systems

Maintain and execute test automation for feature, defect and regression testing

Maintain configuration management of test automation software and scripts

Gain mastery of industry standard tools and software such as Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana, Amazon Web Services, CI/CD DevOps pipelines, containers and more

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field

5+ years of relevant experience with test execution and analysis, test automation, and/or software development

Previous experience working with RF systems and wireless communication technologies, including RF testing, signal characterization, or performance validation is highly desired

Intermediate knowledge of Cloud Computing Services and Cloud Infrastructure

Intermediate knowledge of featured services such as storage, compute services, containers, and virtual servers

A solid understanding of Linux and/or Unix operating systems

Previous experience with software automation, using any of the following: Python, C, C++, C#, Java, etc.

Experience with the following:

Software management tools (JIRA, GIT and/or Bamboo)

Integrated Development Environment (PyCharm, Spyder, Pydev, etc.)

Machine virtualization, specifically VMware Desktop and ESXi