{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"d7bf1f3b05dbe40be01ffb3c","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d7bf1f3b05dbe40be01ffb3c","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d7bf1f3b05dbe40be01ffb3c","title":"Staff QA Test Engineer","description":"Aechelon Technology, Inc. is a leading producer of 3D simulator content, including Geospecific visual/sensor databases and realistic 3D models. We seek people who share our passion for real-time computer graphics and commitment to our mission of helping make our Nation's pilots safer. We will give you a chance to work with some of the most talented people in the graphics industry.\n\nShield AI is a leading producer of 3D simulator content, including geospecific visual and sensor databases and realistic 3D models. We seek people who share our passion for real-time computer graphics and our commitment to helping make our Nation's pilots safer. You will work with talented people across the graphics, engineering, and quality disciplines.\n\nThe Staff Manual QA Engineer is a senior, hands-on tester with a strong command of QA methods and software delivery processes. This role leads complex manual testing, improves test coverage and traceability, supports release decisions, and contributes tests and enhancements within established automation pipelines.\n\nResponsibilities will include, but not be limited to the following:\nLead risk-based manual testing for a major product area and determine scope from requirements, designs, change lists, and defects.\nCreate and maintain manual test plans, test cases, test data, and requirement traceability.\nPrepare representative environments and execute functional, integration, system, regression, smoke, exploratory, acceptance, and release testing.\nInvestigate failures, report and track defects, isolate root causes with engineers, verify fixes, and identify regression coverage.\nAssess results, coverage gaps, unresolved defects, and risk to support release-readiness decisions.\nContribute and maintain test cases, scripts, utilities, and targeted functionality within existing automation frameworks and CI pipelines.\nImprove QA processes for test intake, planning, execution, defect management, reporting, and release validation.\nApply approved AI tools throughout the QA process to analyze requirements, identify test scenarios and edge cases, draft test cases, assist with failure analysis, summarize results, and improve documentation. Review and validate all AI-generated output before use.\nShare practical AI techniques with the QA team and help identify QA tasks where AI can improve coverage, consistency, or efficiency.\nCoordinate testing across teams and mentor QA engineers in test design, investigation techniques, product knowledge, and QA processes.\nMinimum Qualifications:\nSeven to ten years of experience in manual software testing, quality assurance, or quality engineering.\nStrong knowledge of QA principles, software and test lifecycles, risk-based testing, and defect management.\nAbility to independently plan and execute testing for complex features, systems, builds, and releases.\nExperience creating test plans, test cases, traceability records, defect reports, and test summaries.\nAbility to investigate failures, interpret logs and output, and clearly communicate findings.\nAbility to analyze, debug, and trace C++ code to identify the root cause of software issues.\nExperience with test management, issue tracking, configuration management, and continuous integration tools.\nAbility to contribute tests or supporting functionality to existing automated test suites and pipelines.\nFamiliarity with AI tools and experience applying them to QA planning, test design, analysis, reporting, or documentation. AI expertise is not required.\nStrong organizational, communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.\nCollege or university degree.\nEligibility to work with export-controlled technology.\nBonus Points:\nBA or BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.\nExperience testing 3D graphics, modeling, simulation, image generation, sensor, or real-time software.\nWorking knowledge of Python, C++, or another language used to support testing within Jenkins or a similar CI environment.\nExperience with Jira, Confluence, Perforce, Git, test management systems, or comparable tools.\nExperience testing distributed systems, hardware and software integrations, or multiple supported product configurations.\nBenefits\n\nWe offer a very attractive compensation package including competitive base salary, company performance-based profit sharing, 401k, 100% employer paid health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, std, ltd, and life insurance plans).\n\nNo relocation reimbursement provided.\n\nFor more information about our company, please visit www.shield.ai.\n\nThis position description is not intended to be a complete listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee holding this position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may be changed or others may be assigned at any time by the Company with notice to the employee.\n\nAechelon Technology is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing access and opportunities to individuals with disabilities. If you are an applicant who is unable to fully utilize/access our application process because of a disability, Aechelon Technology will provide a reasonable accommodation. 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