Software Test Engineering Lead

- Develop and take ownership of the testing strategy and quality roadmap for our software portfolio, including unit, integration, system, regression, performance, and acceptance testing - Lead the planning of tests, design test cases, and manage test data while mapping risk-based coverage to product and regulatory necessities - Architect and implement automated testing frameworks and harnesses for C++ and FORTRAN applications, alongside relevant service and database layers - Integrate automated testing procedures into CI/CD pipelines, setting criteria for gate releases, handling flaky tests, and defining metrics for quality assessment - Conduct numerical verifications, tolerance evaluations, and stochastic tests for airplane performance algorithms, and establish benchmark and golden-reference artifacts - Oversee cross-platform testing environments and build/test infrastructures that are reproducible, utilizing CMake and containers/VMs alongside test orchestration tools - Initiate performance testing, including stress tests and memory analysis, to ensure reliability and scalability across applications - Document requirements-to-test traceability and prepare V&V artifacts essential for audits and compliance with regulations - Implement static and dynamic analysis tools within pipelines to maintain coverage and code quality - Manage test data, including database migrations/rollback scenarios and SQL correctness tests, while ensuring access to representative datasets - Mentor and guide engineers on design for testability, as well as best practices in test automation and development methodologies - Lead response efforts for test or integration failures, outlining runbooks and facilitating Root Cause Analysis to minimize recurrence - Track and communicate QA metrics and present overall quality status to relevant stakeholders - Build and maintain relationships with external suppliers/vendors for testing tools and platform services, while assessing licensing and support considerations