Software Quality Engineer II

As a Software Quality Engineer at Impulse you will ensure that our software maintains the highest standards of quality across complex, mission-critical flight and ground software programs. In this role, you will help to define and document software development and test processes, define tests for our automated testing pipelines, and prepare software releases for space missions anywhere from low Earth orbit to Mars. 

Responsibilities

• Write software development plans, software configuration management plans, and software test plans to communicate our software development process to our customers and other stakeholders
• Define comprehensive test plans, including functional, integration, system, and user acceptance tests
• Support development of software documentation and coordinate releases and deliveries with our customers
• Work with the development team during code reviews and through an integrated CI/CD pipeline to ensure continuous improvement and immediate feedback.
• Define quality metrics and dashboards for continuous monitoring
• Verify release candidates pass testing
• Evaluate compliance with our software development process

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience in software quality assurance or test automation
• Demonstrated proficiency in C, C++, and/or python languages
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle 
• Demonstrated experience tailoring software development processes
• Demonstrated experience writing or editing software user documentation
• Demonstrated experience with git repositories and artifacts
• Proven track record producing or testing high quality software in a CI/CD pipeline