Software Test Engineer – Cloud Platform

at  Wind River

ABOUT WIND RIVER

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.
Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.
The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Wind River Systems is seeking an experienced high-performing Senior Test Engineer for a position testing a cloud-based platform for its Cloud Platform product. The successful candidate will join a highly skilled test team delivering the world’s first telecom grade cloud platform, pioneering many new industry leading capabilities.
Cloud Platform is currently deployed with major service providers globally and is undergoing expansion to provide a cloud native platform for containerized applications in addition to supporting virtual machines and bare metal nodes.
The successful candidate must be a highly adaptable team player who can quickly ramp up on new technologies and accomplish goals in a fast-paced agile environment. Familiarity with cloud solutions and an understanding of OpenStack is highly desired.

Who You Will Work With:

• The successful candidate will work and collaborate with development and customer facing teams to ensure high levels of product quality.
• Collaborate with Customer Support, Product Management and Development teams to bring a leading edge solution to market on time.
• This position will report to the Test Manager for Cloud Platform.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in software testing & automation
• Experience with Linux environment
• Strong programming skills using Python or similar programming languages
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Exceptional team player who works well in collaborative environments
• Self-managed, fast learner with the desire and ability to master new technologies
• Experience with containers and/or cloud-based technologies including Kubernetes, OpenStack would be an asset
• Exposure to other languages (SQL, Shell Scripting) would be an asset
• Understanding of network technologies such as switching, routing, firewalls, L2/L3 protocols would be an asset
• Experience with industry standard networking test tools like IXIA would be an asset
• Contribution to the open-source community would be an asset
• BSc / MSc degree (Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or equivalent technical degree)
• 7+ years of relevant technical experience in software development

• Develop and execute tests for a highly available, carrier grade platform which will be the platform of choice for 5G vendors
• Test leading edge, high performance and container technologies for the Edge
• Work with the most dynamic and exciting open-source software projects today – Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, Helm, OpenStack, Ansible, Ceph, etc
• Work as part of a team focused on containerization, virtualization, VM management and fault tolerant/carrier grade testing.
• Contribute actively to StarlingX, an open-source project under the OpenStack Foundation - a fully featured cloud for the distributed edge (https://www.starlingx.io/)
• Investigate and report issues during product verification cycles
• Provide support to documentation and customer-facing teams
• Participate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development