SW QA Engineer

Job Title:SW QA Engineer                 

Location:Sunnyvale, CA           

Reports To: Director of E2E QA

Position Summary: 

As a member of the E2E QA team, you will participate in the product engineering process that facilitates release of NextNav’s mission-critical MBS (Metropolitan Beacon System), Altitude Network, Network Operation System and mobile client SW. As a SW QA engineer, you will contribute to QA team through development and execution of functional, system, regression tests as well as field testing for various SW&HW product release.

Essential Functions:

• Requirement analysis, test case development, test script creation and execution, tracking of defects and reporting of test results
• Develop and perform manual/automated tests for Mobile Applications (Android, iOS and other OS platforms) and AWS Cloud based server’s product
• Create test plans and test cases which encompass all NextNav’s E2E Altitude System Test/QA & field test
• Work with project teams through the design and test stages to ensure released products are strictly adhere to business requirements.
• Assess product testability and implement automated processes to increase testing efficiency and reliability
• Logs detailed and accurate defect reports and follows the defects through to resolution and closure
• Provide support to operation team as a 2nd line of support
• Provide support to product demo & trials

Education, Experience, Skills and Attributes:

• BS degree and 2 years of software development/test and/or QA experience
• Must be able to clearly communicate technically complex issues, resolve conflicts, and participate projects over cross functional teams
• Hands on Experience on Mobile application (Android, iOS and/or KaiOS) E2E tests is a must
• Location-based services (LBS) and/or GPS testing/work experience preferred
• Experience in test automation of Mobile App a plus: Selenium/Appium, Java, Python 
• Thorough understanding of the defect-life-cycle/process and industry standard defect tracking tools.
• Strong team player, self-motivated, self–directed, action oriented and able to learn quickly
• Ability to multitask, rapidly respond to changes in requirements as well as operate with project deadlines and time constraints
• Hands on experience with software, hardware, testing and failure analysis methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Prior experience in DB, MySQL or postgres desirable
• Domain knowledge of IT infrastructure and knowledge of Linux systems a plus