Software QA Engineer III

Software QA Engineer III

Job Location s: US-AZ-Chandler

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Iridium is an award‑winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world. For over 20 years, Iridium’s unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.

At Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a reliable lifeline when needed.

Likewise, Iridium is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold ideas and solutions. Our talented teams are passionate about their work and the impact our company makes around the world. Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to genuinely be their best selves.

We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.

If you are an experienced QA Engineer who thrives on working independently to deliver high‑quality test designs, plans, and cases while driving projects to completion, you will love working as a Quality Assurance Engineer III at Iridium! In this role, you will focus primarily on Operations Support Systems, test automation, satellite communication products, complex server side application testing, and programming scripts for the Billing Operations System application stack.

You will excel in this role if you are a team player, are able to understand large and complex systems, and have a passion for finding software coding and design bugs.

• Be responsible for collaborating in the design, development, and execution of test plans and test cases.
• Drive testing efforts for major releases, patches and hot‑fixes in an agile work environment.
• Identify testing tasks for user stories and document the acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Recognize issues pertaining to software coding and design bugs and craft/propose solutions to them.
• Identify new feature functional test cases that may need to be automated.
• Participate in backlog grooming, sprint planning, technical design discussions, and daily stand up meetings to ensure successful sprints.
• Investigate and troubleshoot application errors in test environments and resolve any configuration issues.
• Perform peer reviews for test plans/cases developed by your peers.
• Automate updates and maintenance of existing scripts, and identify and implement new automation features for each release.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer information systems or related field, OR equivalent relevant experience (4+ years) in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of relevant experience working on full lifecycle software development projects and activities.
• 3+ years of experience in a Software QA Analyst or Engineer role.
• 2+ years of experience in automation using applications such as Selenium, Cucumber, SOAPUI, and JSON.
• Programming and automation skills required with Python, Perl, Java.
• Experience testing SOAP and/or REST web service calls.
• Hands‑on experience with Unix and SQL/Oracle.
• Proficiency with SQL queries and database structures, and the ability to perform SQL queries to validate test scripts.
• Solid understanding of server‑side testing, Unix environments, and working with various database technologies.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to confidently present products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues.
• Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions or come up with…