Software Test Lead

Inseego is a global leader in wireless broadband, delivering fast, reliable connectivity to homes, businesses, and people on the move. With the acquisition of Nokia’s FastMile fixed wireless access product, Inseego offers one of the industry’s broadest cellular broadband portfolios, spanning fixed wireless gateways, mobile hotspots and routers, enterprise and industrial gateways, and cloud-based device, network, and subscriber management software. Backed by decades of wireless engineering expertise across 5G, Wi-Fi, antenna design, and cloud software, Inseego partners with mobile network operators worldwide to deliver connectivity at scale. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Inseego has offices in Amsterdam, Bangalore, and Athens.

Position Overview:

The Software Test Lead Engineer works directly to Software Test Manager to do the test planning, monitoring, test execution and reporting for multiple ongoing projects. You will develop, design, and deploy test scripts and test cases of complex modules, help set up the test environment and contribute to the requirements documentation and test design for different types of testing.

Responsibilities:

• The Software test lead works closely with key stake holders in the organization such as program managers, product managers, development engineers, and technical account managers to define and implement quality engineering solutions, practices, processes, and standards.
• Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement.
• Determine the completion timeline and monitor progress to keep the project on track and on schedule.
• Develop a strategy that the team members can use to better reach a project’s goal.
• Create and distribute SQA sign off reports and metrics on regular basis and communicate test results to the Project teams.
• Be an escalation point for all matters related to testing and software quality and operate as a primary point of contact for the SQA teams.
• Analyze test results, troubleshoot, and triage issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers & QA engineers to understand features in-depth & write detailed test plans.
• Participate in interviews, induction, training, and performance evaluation of software test team members.
• Follow defined process in the development and maintenance of automated test suites, automation infrastructure, framework, and tools. •
• Review automated test results; identify and report to project teams potential defects and performance concerns.
• Diagnose, debug and perform root-cause analysis of issues and defects with the help of automation.
• Develop automation test strategies and road map with the manager and test leads.
• Ensure the appropriate automation environments and infrastructure are in place and kept up to date.
• Document automation policy (general guidelines on what to automate) and architecture.
• Mentor automation engineers with technologies and design/development approaches.

Experience/Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in quality engineering and software/hardware testing.
• Experience leading and developing a team of highly skilled QA engineers.
• Shown strength in position of leadership.
• Ability to mobilize, encourage, and lead teams without direct management authority.
• Experience in testing IoT devices/Data cards/M2M devices and/or hardware.
• Must understand QA processes and methodologies in a software development environment.
• Experience with a variety of router & switch hardware, network services, network management, and network termination.
• Experience testing products running on embedded Linux/RTOS
• Experience testing end to end IoT systems or Cloud based solutions for IoT platforms
• Knowledge on routing / networking protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, NAT, DHCP, DNS, MQTT
• Experience with Test management, defect reporting such as AP Test Manger, TestRail, Jira, and Confluence.
• Debugging data like logs, Wireshark traces and identifying potential problems.
• Detail-oriented and open-mi nded with a good personality.
• Flexible team player, self-reliant and self-starter.
• Positive attitude, quick and logical thinker.
• Good analytical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead projects and contribute as part of a team.
• Attention to detail and solid oral and written communications skills a must.
• Must be self-motivated and self-managed with an eye towards continuous process improvement.
• Hands-on experience designing and coding automated tests in scripting languages like Python.
• Research and develop automation solutions for software applications.
• Create test automation frameworks for use by developers and QA professionals.
• Troubleshoot automation scripts, framework execution errors and bugs.
• Communicate with colleagues to identify areas for automation and optimization.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computers/Electronics/Electrical Engineering or equivalent qualification is required.