Senior Quality Assurance Engineer I (Historian)

Inductive Automation, LLC is focused on empowering customers through industrial automation innovation. They are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer I to enhance the quality and functionality of their software products, primarily through testing and validation of application builds.

Responsibilities:

• Validating issues of all complexity with minimal guidance including issues with regression risk
• Contributing both fixes and new tests to automated test suites; support junior Quality Assurance Engineers automation tasks via mentorship
• Diagnosing run failure reports properly and transform them into actionable tasks
• Focusing on testing-related items within the development lifecycle, including testability of requirements, implementation, and testing (collaborating with development along the way)
• Consistently meet target threshold for regression tests execution; add manual test cases where appropriate, identify deficient test cases, and provide mentoring on test case development and execution
• Developing and executing test plans that cover all functional requirements; determine applicable test strategies for medium/high complexity bugs and features in team-relevant Ignition product areas
• Working toward and maintain an advanced level of proficiency across multiple Ignition product areas within the team's scope; gain proficiency as a subject matter expert in a product area
• Breaking down complex testing efforts into simpler phases that can be tested by less experienced engineers
• Prioritizing unowned or undesirable work that enables the team to move faster
• Demonstrating autonomy without sacrificing quality or delivery time; resolving and overcoming medium scale blockers or challenges
• Working with the Quality Assurance team and adjacent teams to solve problems; escalate problems that have wider scope
• Building relationships with stakeholders which may include customers, product managers, cross-functional partners, and external partners
• Ensuring that knowledge is shared amongst the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure
• Resolving issues and sharing knowledge by improving the execution of the Support Division, Training Department, Sales Division, etc
• Working towards and maintaining an advanced understanding of industries that use Ignition, our customer base, and the purpose of SCADA software
• Staying knowledgeable about the company, its values, each division's contributions, and the company's industry contributions
• Helping junior engineers with issues and support them with their technical growth
• Improving team strength by advising managers and other leaders with insights and recommendations

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering OR at least 4 years experience working in a related field
• 3-5 years of industry experience
• Firm grasp of troubleshooting skills within a complex application environment, including debugging of errors, identifying the source of performance issues, parsing of logs and stack traces, and determining reproducible steps for issues
• Strong programming knowledge with at least one language, including understanding of functions, conditional statements, and basic object oriented concepts (Python, Java/JavaScript, C++)
• Strong understanding of the SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) and each of the phases
• Proficient with source control management systems, such as Git, and common usage (clone and checkout of repositories and specific branches, commits and merge conflicts)
• Proficient with setup and querying of SQL databases (MS SQL Server, MySQL, similar)
• Proficient in using Windows, Linux (Ubuntu), and macOS platforms, including working from the command line, and debugging issues with applications running as a service
• Experience with deploying applications using virtualization software (VMWare, Docker Desktop), including creating images, debugging running containers, and use of persistent data (volumes)
• Experience with bug tracking systems and writing proper bug reports
• Familiarity with well-known protocols in the Internet protocol suite and their usage in applications (TCP/UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, IP)
• Familiarity with time-series data concepts (compression, interpolation, aggregation, deadband)
• Experience with systems that ingest data at scale (high-volume, high-frequency, or streaming data pipelines)
• Familiarity with writing automated test cases for Web application testing frameworks (Selenium WebDriver)
• Experience with writing automated test cases within well known mobile test automation frameworks (XCTest, Espresso)
• Familiarity with PLC programming and configuration, including ladder logic, updating firmware, and maintenance of PLC programs/exports
• Experience with tools for quick application development and infrastructure deployment (Docker, Vagrant, Terraform, similar)
• Debugging of Java platform and Swing/JavaFX applications using JProfiler (or similar profiling tool)
• Experience with Maven and Gradle build tools, especially in coordinating builds with automated testing
• Configuring continuous integration/continuous development servers (Jenkins), including creating and maintaining jobs/pipelines
• Experience with coding in modern IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm)
• Experience with Wireshark or network analysis tools (traffic filtering, packet analysis)
• Familiarity with manufacturing industry and SCADA software