Senior Test Automation Engineer, Satellite Software

at  ICEYE

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

To support the company’s growth, we are seeking an experienced Senior Test Automation Engineer, Satellite Software to join our flight software team. The position is located in our headquarters in Espoo, Finland.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of hands on experience of designing test cases and running test automation as part of larger software development.
• Worked with embedded systems, familiarity with cross compilation, on-chip debuggers, bootloaders, firmware.
• Proven experience in test automation frameworks (Pytest preferred) and advanced knowledge of automation testing tools and procedures.
• Experience with REST API testing, utilizing Swagger tools.
• Proficiency in setting up CI/CD pipelines for test automation, hands-on experience with Github (Actions and workflows).
• Experience of the Linux operating system and writing shell scripts
• Great coding skills (preferably skilled in Python, C, C++)
• Have worked with lab equipment previously and automating electronic equipment and instrumentation with ethernet interfaces.
• Be a glue coder, be adept in developing custom tooling and scripts to be able to test different systems across the stack.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken

IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE, IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL IF YOU HAD THE BELOW ATTRIBUTES AND SKILLS:

• Degree in engineering (A master’s/higher degree is a strong plus).
• Experience working in startup environments, reflecting adaptability and dynamic problem-solving.
• Proficiency in setting up CI/CD pipelines for test automation, and hands-on experience with Github.
• Embedded software expertise, bare-metal (no-OS), RTOS-based, and Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) libraries for ARM-based microcontrollers or SoCs.

ABOUT THE ROLE?

ICEYE is committed to delivering high-quality data to its customers on time. You will help to ensure it will keep happening working in the Flight Software team.
Our team is responsible for the software that runs in the embedded systems of ICEYE’s spacecraft. This software manages onboard activities, data processing, power management, communication with the ground, propulsion system, and spacecraft health and safety. You will work with technologies such as Embedded Linux, ARM-based microcontrollers, SoCs, and RTOS.
The Flight Software team is a critical group in the company, continuously implementing new features and developing new subsystems for the new satellites and those already in our fleet.
You will design, develop, and run automation procedures and engineer test cases that give continuous feedback to your colleagues. At ICEYE, we approach testing and quality assurance with a unique mix of automation, telemetry, and manual testing. You must be passionate about building software correctly and doing innovative testing as a part of a larger engineering team. We want to ask you to continuously support the execution of test plans as part of our iterative development process. Our developers are a collection of world-class talent, and we want you to aim for the same level in your line of work.
This is a full-time position located in Espoo, Finland, with the possibility of hybrid work. If you are coming from abroad, we will gladly support relocating to the capital area of the world’s happiest country.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working closely with satellite hardware and software engineers, you will build up relevant automation testing frameworks.
• Building up automation tests that make use of hardware-in-the-loop in order to create holistic system level quality gates for software development.
• Create, maintain and improve automation testing frameworks across distinct engineering groups. Keeping our test automation technologies and approaches up-to-date through the integration of automated testing tools and test harnesses as required.
• Reporting results of QA activities and find easily reproducible steps for bugs that you can collaborate with engineers to establish fixes. Be able to isolate signals from the noise, and issue feedback that eases the work of your colleagues.
• Improving our regression testing capabilities in a scalable way. Figuring out ways to catch bugs before they manifest in production and prevent them from happening again.
• Being a proactive member of the team, championing a quality-driven approach across the development organization. Demonstrate independent thinking, fostering clarity and resolution, showcasing the right way of performing tests.
• Create tailor made scripts that enable testing by gluing together complex systems in order to be able to provide testing capability at all levels of the SDLC. Be an effective documentation writer documenting the tools you create.