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Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com .

It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Who will you be working with?

The system integration test team combines knowledge of our PDS product with deep domain expertise in system testing. We test and deliver a Cloud-Native application that consists of a set of microservices that are deployed on a Kubernetes-based Container Orchestration Platform. System Test team understands and runs end to end testing on on several services such as Relational Database, Key-Value store, Message Broker(s), Identity Provider, Secrets Manager. We use contemporary DevSecOps practices such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment that facilitates deployment strategies such as Rolling, Canary and Blue/Green.

How will you make a difference?

As a member of the system integration test team, you will be responsible for development and execution of manual, automated test scripts and execute Functional, Regression and automated testing on on-demand and via a CI/CD pipeline to ensure a high-quality product is delivered to our PDS2 customers.

This position is for a Quality Assurance Engineer who will provide technical guidance to small teams, perform maintenance of the automation framework, suggest improvements, and implement them. He/She would provide technical guidance and make recommendations for best practices in Quality Engineering and Automation. There will be no team members reporting to him/her.

Develop and executes maintainable automation tests for acceptance, integration, end-to-end, functional, and regression test cases

Should be willing to work with geographically distributed teams within normal US business hours

Ability to take ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping Wabtec and Contractor team members

Perform design reviews to ensure proposed approach meets functional requirements and follows best practices for developing automated test scripts.

Perform code reviews to ensure code and content meets defined standards and does not break existing functionality.

Provide guidance to junior members to maintain quality engineering, quality test planning, and proper test methodology.

Provide support in troubleshooting issues related to the automation tool, VMs, etc. and engage support teams when necessary.

Oversee efforts to build efficiencies in the automation framework to increase the robustness while reducing the runtime, maintenance, and script creation time.

Ensure understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results.

Strong oral, written communication, and interpersonal skills

Interacting with customers in this role is possible to some extent

[Things to include: who the role supports, and what that support looks like; what type of processes are they responsible for developing, maintaining, training, leading?; who they report out to, how and when]

What do we want to know about you?

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, MIS, Engineering, or a closely related field of study

A minimum of 4 years of professional experience OR Master’s degree with 2 years of experience

Extensive experience in test automation using Selenium, REST assured, and other automation tools with detailed knowledge of writing Java in a SAFe/Agile environment

Working knowledge of CI/CD to support continuous automation and deployment process, alongside experience in using Bash commands with Linux.

Experience in testing REST APIs using apps such as Postman and Java packages such as REST assured.

Experience with any issue-tracking and agile project management tools such as Rally, xWiki, HP ALM etc.

Knowledge of cloud technologies in AWS.

Working knowledge of Docker, as well as awareness in container management tools such as Kubernetes.

Strategic and creative thinking to analyze issues that may arise and create solutions.

Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems

Ability to respond positively to feedback and implement change in process and procedures as needed.

Experience working with virtual machines (VMs) as part of a test/integration infrastructure

Understand the problems from a customer perspective and suggest creative solutions.

Demonstrates awareness about railroad industry, with knowledge on competitors and industry trends

What will your typical day look like?

Participate in daily standups, provide updates on current sprint activities

Participate in sprint planning, two week sprint cycle

Participate in feature/user story testing

Participate in debugging sessions with developers/tech-leads/DevOps

Participate in defect triage sessions

Update work items in Rally

Write test cases, execute manually and then automate them

Participate in test case reviews and code reviews

What about the physical demands of the job?

Employee is regularly required to see and observe small handwriting, labels, and components.

Employees should be very strong to orally communicate clearly in English

Employees should be very strong in written communication in English

You may also be asked to perform other duties outside of your function or trade, for which adequate training will be provided if necessary.

More information on offered benefits, which include health, welfare, and retirement, is available at mywabtecbenefits.com (https://wabtec.sharepoint.com/sites/GlobalCommunications/Shared%20Documents/Branding/VMV/mywabtecbenefits.com) .

Relocation assistance may be provided if eligibility requirements are met.

Wabtec will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable) and fitness for duty test (as applicable).

If working from a Wabtec office, the employee will normally work in a temperature-controlled office environment, with frequent exposure to electronic office equipment. If working from Remote, the employee should have a good internet connection, should have a desk for the equipment.

Travel requirement may be 10%-20% annually, if remote to Melbourne, FL for quarterly planning activities

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles…people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.