Staff Software Test Engineer (R2027)

Introduction to Shield AI
Shield AI’s mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Shield AI is a fast growing, venture-backed defense-technology company built around a team of proven executives, distinguished warfighters, and world-class AI engineers. Since 2018, Shield AI’s products and people have supported operations around the world with the US Department of Defense and our allies.


As part of the HMC (Hivemind Commander) team, you’ll take an active role in enhancing the quality of our products by defining best practices, managing testing infrastructure, writing and executing automated tests. You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, and manual testers to deliver highly reliable software. Your overarching objective is to make it easier for software engineers to write tests, product managers and designers to track test results, and to improve the overall quality and reliability of our products.
Projects that you might work on:
  • Collaborate with software engineers to meet their testing needs to for both web and mobile applications 
  • Assess the depth and breadth of test coverage across our mobile and web applications for mission planning and command and control; develop a plan for enhancements with clear objectives and milestones 
  • Identifying, implement, integrate and automate optimal test frameworks and testing strategies for both web and mobile applications 
  • Define best practices for creating automated tests and writing testable code 
  • Integrate testing within the application codebase with analysis of data and logs from simulated and real-world flight tests with autonomous platforms; enable the identification and tracking of bugs based on flight tests, and enhancing test coverage to address bugs in the future 
  • Maintain and enhance testing infrastructure and tools 
  • Implement and measure key performance metrics for applications from both computation and UX perspectives 
  • Work with product stake holders to define key metrics for application quality 
  • Refer UX designs and come up with fidelity scores for UI 
  • Arbitrate user interaction with applications, suggest improvements to overall interactivity based on quantitative and qualitative metrics extracted with tests 
  • Perform latency tests on application interfaces to identify degradation in performance 
  • Ensure the execution of various quality activities, such as test planning, testing and risk assessment for all features 
  • Create maintain, and execute tests to improve test coverage 
  • Track and report on the evolution of test results over time and across releases 
  • Other duties as assigned 
  • Required qualifications:
  • 5+ years of experience as a Tester, QA Engineer, SDET or similar role with focus on quality  
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, similar degree, or equivalent practical experience 
  • 3+ years of expertise in testing web applications built with React/Typescript/Node with complex UX within a production environment 
  • Experience in white box testing and test automation with web and mobile projects 
  • Demonstrated ability to own the automation efforts and drive issues to resolution 
  • You are excited to jump into new technologies and paradigms 
  • Strong technical collaboration and a desire to develop new skills  
  • Excited by a fast-moving environment with a highly motivated group 
  • Demonstrated ability to working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, and being kind to others 



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    Total compensation: Salary within range listed above + Bonus + Benefits + Equity (if applicable)
    Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. Information on the benefits offered is here. All offers are contingent on a cleared background check.

    Location guidelines-
    Onsite = 5 days/week
    Hybrid = Several days in the office
    Remote = Remote but able to come to the office as requested for business needs

    If you're interested in being part of our team, apply now! 

    Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. 
     
    To conform to U.S. Government regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. 
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