QA Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Not Specified
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not Specified

Shift5 is the observability platform for onboard operational technology (OT). We’re a rapidly growing scale-up that specializes in cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and compliance for operational technology (OT) systems across defense, aerospace, and rail. We are a collaborative, passionate, and driven cadre of dynamic, multidisciplinary experts and we’re focused on helping our customer’s fleets run smarter and safer by accessing and democratizing the volumes of onboard OT data generated by transportation and freight fleets, defense fleets & other critical infrastructure. Come join us.

Our Values:

• Embrace Truth and Integrity: Base decisions on data, foster open dialogue, and uphold unwavering integrity.
• User-Centric Focus: Prioritize user needs to guide our actions and resource allocation.
• Collaborative & Adaptable: Collaborate for excellence, learn from failures, and drive iterative improvements, recognizing every decision's significance.

Shift5 is seeking a full-time Lead QA Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you’ll help ensure the quality of features built into Shift5’s product suite. You’ll play a critical role in testing, verifying, and providing a high-quality technology stack that:

• Serves the user’s digital touch points into the Shift5 product ecosystem
• Composes the middleware that drives the core engine of our solutions
• Sustains the backend components that source, analyze and enrich the vast amounts of Operation Technology-based data captured by our hardware platform

You’ll operate in a team-based environment with engineers, product managers, program managers, and designers to ship solutions that are of highest quality and meet our customers' needs. QA Engineering will play a key role in delivering features and generating high-impact products that literally save lives. This role resides in our Product Engineering team and reports to our Director of Software Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead for a newly formed QA function.
• Prior experience as a QA Team Lead or QA Team Manager is preferred.
• Write comprehensive test plans for new and existing features.
• Create regression test suites to ensure ongoing stability.
• Write automated tests against APIs and UIs (driven by Selenium, for example).
• Work with our Platform Engineering (DevOps) team to integrate automated testing within our build pipelines.
• Execute manual functional and exploratory tests against the entire Shift5 solution stack.
• Be highly adaptable and able to learn new technologies quickly.
• Collaborate closely with Software, Hardware, Firmware, Data, and Platform Engineering.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of experience in software QA and automated test development
• Strong proficiency in creating automated test suites against frontend applications and APIs as well as integration tests to ensure functionality and compatibility across various software and