Senior Quality Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Own the test automation framework across Rust and Python, covering unit, integration, regression, and scenario-level testing
• Integrate test suites into CI/CD with enforced gates at every stage, including security checks (SAST, dependency scanning, vulnerability)
• Enforce NODA's compliance boundary so CUI and export-controlled data never reach clean-zone or vendor-accessible test paths
• Drive build quality metrics: coverage, flake rate, false positive rate, and mean time to detect and triage
• Maintain a component-level quality dashboard feeding into the program-level go/no-go view for engineering and program leadership
• Own go/no-go checklists and issue release recommendations backed by functional, security, and compliance evidence
• Triage failures before routing, giving engineers a diagnosis rather than a symptom
• Keep the test suite healthy: review cadence, deprecation of stale tests, and coverage gap identification
• Translate quality state into language that drives release decisions at leadership level
• Grow the QE function under Core Engineering as headcount scales

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years in software QE, with a track record of building test infrastructure
• Engineering fundamentals: test code is production quality, test harnesses maintained like products
• Python required; Rust or a clear plan to get there
• Hands-on CI/CD integration: built gates, debugged flakes, enforced blocks
• Owned quality dashboards and metrics that drive go/no-go decisions
• Fluent in distributed and concurrent systems and how they fail
• Integrated security testing into CI/CD (SAST, dependency scanning, compliance validation aligned to NIST 800-171 or equivalent)
• Designed test infrastructure that respects security boundaries and vendor guardrails while supporting restricted core components
• Background in defence, robotics, aerospace, or autonomous systems
• US Citizenship with ability to obtain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) or software-in-the-loop (SIL) testing experience
• Simulation-based test pipelines
• Edge or resource-constrained testing experience
• Active security clearance

Skills & Attributes

• Builds with rigor: Test infrastructure is a product you design and maintain
• Makes quality visible: Dashboards and metrics that let engineering and leadership see platform status before every release
• Owns the call: Go/no-go recommendations backed by evidence and checklists
• Communicates up: Comfortable translating quality state into language that drives decisions at the program and leadership level
• Collaborative by design: Works effectively across engineering sub-teams and engages program and mission stakeholders on quality outcomes