Test engineer with Playwright, Python, & CI/CD Deployment

Good day greetings from Datum Technologies,

Role: Hardware & Software Test Engineer (LAB)

Location: Chicago, IL (Onsite)

Start date: Immediate

Contract mode

Rate: $45-48

Job Description:

Must Haves:

• Able to work in the lab at MHQ in Chicago 3 days a week
• Creative thinker capable of assessing systems ways of testing their limits

Responsibilities:

• Must maintain physical set up of labs including servers, power, network, and connected devices
• Assess new software versions and new applications, determine best way to test them for integration, performance, and defects
• Design tests and find weak points in software and hardware
• Run manual and physical tests on lab servers
• Certify software as ready for deployment to production
• Report to stakeholders on testing progress
• Provide input on test coverage and improvements
• Alert stakeholders when defects are found
• Work closely with project manager and release manager to coordinate testing schedules

Skills:

• Role is a hybrid hardware tester / Dev QE
• coding or scripting knowledge strongly preferred
• Experience with Lab/Hardware management and setup

Soft Skills:

• Problem solver – should be able to think of ways the system can break; and test for those breaks
• Quality Oriented – should start with the end in mind – providing our client with a quality product
• Communication – should be ready to collaborate with stakeholder at multiple levels, including executives
• Time Management – needs to be able to schedule and parallelize tasks effectively while using limited testing environments
• Creativity – always looking for ways to improve the system and process, wants to own the process, takes pride in quality

Technologies:

• Jira\Zephyr
• VM Management
• RDP, PowerShell
• Google GCP, Google Edge
• Wireless connected devices (IoT)

Preferred:

• A developer mindset – focused on software development and systems design.
• Knowledge of Python, Playwright
• GitHub, GitHub Actions
• CI/CD.