Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.

It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Job Overview:

Responsible for testing a component, feature and or feature set. Works independently and contributes to the immediate team and to other teams across business.  S/he contributes to quality engineering discussions.

Essential Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

• Own medium-sized quality engineering tasks; and delivers as per the commitments, while helping team members
• Make technology choices at individual level and has ability to analyze impact
• Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like SAFe/Agile, CI, Software and Product Security, Integration, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques
• Integrate project testing with continuous-integration process
• Prepare Reusable functions, which improve the robustness, re-usability, and maintainability of the test scripts
• Work with fellow team members to diagnose defects and formulate solutions
• Develop and executes maintainable automation tests for acceptance, integration, end-to-end, functional, and regression test cases

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• A minimum of 9 years of professional experience in OR Master’s degree with 7 years of experience

Desired Characteristics:

Technical Expertise:

• Extensive experience in test automation using Selenium, REST assured, and other automation tools with detailed knowledge of writing Java in a SAFe/Agile environment

• Working knowledge of CI/CD to support continuous automation and deployment process, alongside experience in using Bash commands with Linux.

• Experience in testing REST APIs using apps such as Postman and Java packages such as REST assured.

• Experience with issue-tracking and agile project management tools such as Rally, xWiki, HP ALM etc.

• Experience working with virtual machines (VMs) as part of a test/integration infrastructure

• Knowledge of cloud technologies in AWS.

• Working knowledge of Docker, as well as awareness in container management tools such as Kubernetes.

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
• Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry trends
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices

Leadership:

• Ability to takes ownership of medium sized tasks and deliver while helping team members
• Own and deliver medium sized tasks completely independently
• Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results
• Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy. Makes suggestions to course correct
• Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balances different, competing objectives

Personal Attributes:

• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Good customer facing skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Effective team building and problem solving abilities

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles…people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.