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Mission Operations Engineer

AI summary of the role

Lead the testing effort for the Mission Ops program at E-Space, a LEO satellite IoT company, working onsite in Saratoga, CA.

What you’ll do

  • Lead the Test and Integration team hands-on for the Mission Ops program
  • Write test plans and test cases, ensuring full requirements traceability
  • Create and maintain test suites for build acceptance, regression, and automation
  • Develop test automation for mission ops software using Python

What you’ll bring

  • 5+ years in system performance, QA engineering, or network operations for mobile/satellite operator or infrastructure/devices manufacturer
  • 3+ years leading groups, projects, and teams in a QA role
  • Hands-on experience with test automation and automated regression test suites
  • Expertise with Python, C++ for testing and automation, MPL and scripting

Technologies

Python · C++ · MPL · Linux · Windows · AWS · CI/CD · Jira · Confluence · Grafana

About E-Space

Builds a sustainable low-Earth-orbit satellite mesh network for hyper-scaled IoT and Smart-IoT, plus 5G and command-and-control services, with in-house solar and satellite manufacturing.

Seed · 100–200 people

Source and classification

Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:

candidate has experience as an individual contributor with quality assurance engineering, test engineering, automation of testing tasks as well as leading testing of one or more products or areas of a product. What you will be doing: Be a hands on leader for the Test and Integration team Read, comprehend and ensure that product requirements are reviewed and understood Write test plans and test cases for their designated area ensuring that all requirements are covered in their test planning for traceability Be responsible for creating a Requirements Traceability Matrix for Mission Ops software Perform testing in a lab environment, document all aspects of the lab environment prior to deployment in the satellite, ground systems and devices environments and before commercial launch in a commercial environment Create test suites for build acceptance testing, regression testing and
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