Senior Engineer, Automated Test (R4461)

What You'll Do:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for Autonomy and UI applications.  

• Develop scalable automated test infrastructure for functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing across distributed software and hardware environments.  

• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab using YAML configurations and shell scripting to support automated build, test, and deployment workflows.  

• Build workflow automation tools and utilities in Python to improve test execution efficiency, reporting, environment setup, and developer productivity.  

• Develop and maintain UI and API test automation using Go and TypeScript for modern web-based operator interfaces and mission control applications.  

• Integrate automated testing into continuous integration environments to support rapid software delivery and high reliability standards.  

• Collaborate closely with software, autonomy, simulation, and systems engineering teams to define verification strategies and improve software quality throughout the development lifecycle.  

• Develop automated validation solutions for safety-critical and mission-critical aerospace software systems.  

• Create test harnesses, simulators, stubs, and mocks to support automated verification in both simulated and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) environments.  

• Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, and work with development teams to isolate root causes and improve system reliability.  

• Improve test coverage, execution speed, maintainability, and observability of automated test systems.  

• Contribute to software quality standards, coding best practices, and automation architecture decisions.  

• Maintain clear technical documentation for test frameworks, automation workflows, CI/CD infrastructure, and validation procedures.  

• Support release qualification activities and ensure traceability between requirements, tests, and verification results where applicable.  

• Represent the Integration and Test Role in design reviews and advocate for a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.  

• Develop AI-assisted engineering workflows and analytics tools using modern coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and related LLM-based development platforms to improve test generation, failure triage, debugging, and developer productivity.  

• Design intelligent automation pipelines that leverage AI-assisted code generation, log analysis, test analysis, and workflow orchestration to accelerate software verification and validation processes.  

• Evaluate and integrate emerging AI-driven software engineering tools into automated test and CI/CD ecosystems while maintaining reliability, traceability, and engineering quality standards. 

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience building scalable, maintainable automation frameworks and/or developer tooling in Python.  

• 5+ years of experience working with package management, dependency management, and build systems using tools such as conan, pip, setuptools, poetry, and nix or similar. 

• 5+ years of experience building tooling for automated log collection, analytics, reporting, and failure triage. 

• Strong understanding of asynchronous and concurrent programming in Python for scalable automation and parallel test execution.  

• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, YAML, and shell scripting.  

• Experience with automated testing of distributed systems, backend services, APIs, and web-based UIs.  

• Familiarity with modern test frameworks, automated validation strategies, and software quality methodologies.  

• Experience working in Linux-based development environments.  

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in complex software systems.  

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills in cross-functional engineering environments.  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience integrating Python with native C/C++ libraries and applications using bindings, wrappers, subprocess interfaces, or interoperability tooling. 

• Proficiency with Go and/or TypeScript for automation tooling or UI test development. 

• Experience with C++ development or testing.  

• Aerospace, robotics, autonomy, or safety-critical software experience.  

• Familiarity with simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), or embedded system testing.