Manual SW Test Engineer

Maryland, Columbia FREQUENTIS USA, Inc. From now on Full time

Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom‑tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards.

We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever‑changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.

• Create and execute test scenarios including: functional, maintenance/reliability, stability/load, performance, analysis, security, voice quality, and environmental tests
• Manage test artifacts for assigned Test program(s), including managing feature verification statements, defect reports and test status reports
• Plan verification strategies and test specifications based on customer and product requirements, software and hardware requirements, and use case scenarios.
• Identify and fully document any defects/unexpected anomalies identified during testing with instruction of how to recreate the issue
• Review and interpret system and software requirements from a testability perspective
• Assist Engineers in reproducing and resolving identified defects
• Identify and propose areas of improvement throughout the Release process
• Maintain well organized record of test results and generate historical analysis of test results
• Communicate technical issues or project details with Release Management and Engineering
• Work closely with automation, dev ops and integration engineers to help perform root cause analysis of issues found in the test environments

• BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience (at least 3 years) with IT and telecommunications hardware and software
• At least 5 years test‑related work experience
• Experience in developing internal and deliverable test plans and test procedures, preferably for mission critical equipment, within a production environment.
• Ability to write clear and concise test plans and test procedures based on system requirements and clearly document defects.
• Strong understanding in QA methodology, Agile/Scrum software development processes and project life cycles
• Experience with bug‑tracking systems (e.g., JIRA (preferred)) and Test Management Systems (e.g., JAMA)
• Strong written and communication skills - ability to communicate progress/problems, test design with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work concurrently on multiple tasks and projects,
• Ability to work independently and with a team

Frequentis USA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Around 2,100 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work‑life‑balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities.

In doing so, we focus on long‑term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know‑how of our employees stable.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Health Savings Accounts
• Competitive 401(k) Plan with company match and immediate vesting
• Employee Life…