Automation Test Engineer

Maryland, Columbia FREQUENTIS USA, Inc. From now on

Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom-tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards. We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever-changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.

Key Tasks

• Collaborate with manual testers, dev ops engineers and integration lead to identify automation candidates from each software drop
• Design, develop and implement automation regression test suites that validate features end to end
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for quick feedback in the release cycles
• Manage and produce clear automation dashboards, test reports and metrics for the assigned Test program(s), including # of scripts executed, pass/fail reports
• Troubleshoot valid test failures, automation false negatives to continuously improve the automation stability and coverage
• Fully document any defects/unexpected anomalies identified during automation testing
• Identify and propose areas of improvement throughout the Release process

Key Qualifications

• BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience (at least 3 years) with IT and telecommunications hardware and software
• At least 5 years automation test-related work experience
• Hands on experience with automation tools such as Selenium, or similar
• Familiar with CI/CD pipeline (GitLab, Jenkins…)​
• Understanding of containerization, virtualization such as Kubernetes
• Experience with bug-tracking systems (e.g., JIRA (preferred)) and Test Management Systems (e.g., JAMA)
• Strong written and communication skills - ability to communicate progress/problems, test design with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work concurrently on multiple tasks and projects,
• Ability to work independently and with a team
• Strong understanding in QA methodology, Agile/Scrum software development processes and project life cycles

Our Values

Frequentis USA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Around 2,100 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work-life-balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities. In doing so, we focus on long-term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know-how of our employees stable.

Benefits

We are committed to supporting our mission through the following employee benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Health Savings Accounts
• Competitive 401(k) Plan with company match and immediate vesting
• Employee Life Insurance & AD&D
• Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Generous holidays, including a full week off from December 25 to January 1
• PTO that scales with tenure and sick leave
• Company-sponsored team-building activities to boost morale and productivity.

"Frequentis stands for safe, open & family-friendly corporate culture, we hire for personality & train skills. People & their values matter to us. That's why I'm not only interested in your skills, but also in your personal passion and commitment."

At Frequentis we don’t just create innovations,
we create a kind of wonder
to make the world a safer place.

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