Software Test Engineer

Shift5 is redefining the future of onboard operational technology (OT). As a fast-growing scale-up, we specialize in cutting-edge cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and compliance for OT systems across defense, aerospace, and rail. We are a team of passionate, innovative professionals who thrive in a collaborative environment, driven by a shared mission to revolutionize how fleets operate. By unlocking and democratizing the vast potential of onboard OT data, we help our customers’ fleets run smarter, safer, and more efficiently. Ready to be part of the next frontier in transportation and critical infrastructure? Come join us.

Our Values:

• Embrace Truth and Integrity: Base decisions on data, foster open dialogue, and uphold unwavering integrity.
• User-Centric Focus: Prioritize user needs to guide our actions and resource allocation.
• Collaborative & Adaptable: Collaborate for excellence, learning from failures and driving iterative improvements, recognizing every decision's significance.

Shift5 is seeking a full-time Software Test Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you’ll help ensure the quality of features built into Shift5’s product suite. You’ll play a critical role in testing, verifying, and providing a high-quality technology stack that: 

• Serves the user’s digital touch points into the Shift5 product ecosystem 
• Composes the middleware that drives the core engine of our solutions 
• Sustains the backend components that source, analyze and enrich the vast amounts of Operational Technology data captured by our hardware platform 

You’ll operate in a team-based environment with engineers, product managers, program managers, and designers to ship solutions that are of highest quality and meet our customers' needs. Test Engineers will play a key role in delivering features and generating high-impact products that literally save lives. This role resides in our Product Engineering team and reports to our Director of Software Engineering.

If you're passionate about testing complex systems, optimizing test processes through automation, and thrive in a collaborative environment with endless opportunities to take ownership and expand your skills, Shift5 might be the right fit for you! 

In this role you will be expected to:

• Write comprehensive test plans for new and existing features.
• Create regression test suites to ensure ongoing stability.
• Inform how QA is integrated into engineering workflows.
• Work closely with other QA and Test Engineers covering the testing of embedded systems to ensure full coverage of the Shift5 solution.
• Write automated tests against APIs and UIs (driven by Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress, for example).
• Work with our Platform Engineering (DevOps) team to integrate automated testing within our build pipelines.
• Assist with the rollout and implementation of a Test Management System that will integrate with Shift5’s Jira and Github.
• Execute manual functional and exploratory tests against the Shift5 solution stack.
• Be highly adaptable and able to learn new technologies quickly.
• Collaborate closely with Software, Hardware, Firmware, Data, and Platform Engineering.

Required:

• Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Rust, GoLang, Ruby, Java.
• Strong proficiency in creating automated test suites against frontend applications and APIs as well as integration tests to ensure functionality and compatibility across various software and hardware components.
• Ability to set up and configure test environments consisting of both hardware and software components.
• Experience working with software teams, demonstrating advanced skill in automated and manual testing.
• Deep understanding of QA Engineering practices and concepts.
• Familiarity and demonstrated expertise with test management and execution platforms such as Test Rail, Zephyr, X-Ray. Experience with Atlassian Jira preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with REST API’s, CI/CD, SQL, automated UI test tooling (e.g. Selenium/Cypress/Playwright), Docker, Linux.
• US Citizenship.

Preferred:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• Prior experience working very autonomously in a startup-like environment.
• Prior experience building out QA systems and processes from scratch.
• Prior experience with CANbus, MIL-STD-1553, SAE J1939, ASCB, ARINC 429
• Familiarity working with and deploying to AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Active (or ability to hold/obtain a) US Government Top Secret security clearance

Compensation & Benefits: 

• Base Salary: $125,000-$175,000
• Bonus program and equity in a fast-growing startup
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families
• Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions
• Employer-paid Life and Disability Insurance 
• Uncapped paid time off policy 
• Flexible work & remote work policy 
• Tax-deferred public transit benefits with Metro SmartBenefits (DC/MD/VA)  

We are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that embraces the diversity of our people and represents the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives and ways of solving problems. We strive to attract and retain talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.   

Shift5 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, disability, age, marital status, ancestry, projected veteran status, or any other protected group or class.