Principal Quality Engineer II

EchoStar builds solutions that help families and communities stay connected. Our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes, and Sling TV. We serve millions of customers with offerings ranging from satellite to streaming services and global to personal networking solutions.

About the role

Principal Quality Engineer II sought by Hughes Network System LLC in Germantown, MD to provide strong technical leadership in delivering software quality for OSS/BSS software.

Responsibilities

• Work with technical architects, developers, and business users/non-technical personnel to translate business requirements into functional requirements.
• Lead onsite and offshore teams to deliver test suites for critical and scalable business applications using latest web-based technologies and cloud services.
• Identify and test cases suitable for various categories of testing such as functional testing, automation, sanity, performance, and regression.
• Lead teams to develop detailed test cases with focus on user experience, both functional and non-functional.
• Provide insightful inputs during business requirement analysis and system design phase from feature verification, performance, and other software quality perspectives.
• Research and recommend industry best practices for software quality management.
• Ensure organization quality process compliance across programs under purview.
• Identify software quality process improvements to reduce effort wastage through automation.
• Conduct status reviews and presentations to management.
• Mentor junior onsite/offshore members and align contributors toward stated objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, or a closely related field plus 10 years of OSS/BSS experience in the job offered or similar roles.
• 5 years of experience in each of the following (may have been gained concurrently):
  • OSS/BSS test management
  • JIRA, Confluence, Qtest, Selenium, and LoadRunner
  • Java, JSP, Oracle, JavaScript, microservices, Google Cloud Platform, Salesforce, and Drupal
  • Kafka and Pub/Sub
  • Working in an agile environment and deploying individual products
  • Automated API testing tools

Pay

$162,052.50 per year

Benefits

• Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check, which may include a drug test.
• Benefits information available at EchoStar Careers.