Software Test Engineer

Job Description

Software Test Engineer

Remote (once every three months onsite)

Location: 3640 150th Avenue NE , Redmond, WA 98052, United States

Duration: 7 Months with possible extension

Pay: $65/hr W2 - $70/hr W2 (Depends Upon Experience)

Typical Day in the Role

• Purpose of the Team: The team is to create security alerts for suspicious activity from malicious or insider threats, and monitoring for IT infrastructure help.
• Key projects: Candidate will be reviewing software and hardware for bugs and misconfigurations and compliance.
• Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of 10% reviewing and prioritizing tickets/sending out communication/updating customers, 20% writing new tests, 70% running tests that are already created, using tools, and examining the results of tests.

Candidate Requirements

• Years of Experience Required: 8-10 years of work-related experience
• Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain Experience testing software, Experience writing test documentation such as Test Plans, scripts and test results reports, Ability to analyze/interpret test results and provide recommendations to improve testing.

Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

1. Minimum 2+ years of Experience with Fiddler, Wireshark, and network monitoring tools.
2. Minimum 2+ years of Experience reviewing the security context of Windows software.
3. Minimum 2+ years of experience with Python, Powershell, Git, and Sysinternals.

Job Responsibilities:

• Experience reviewing security context of Windows software.
• Knowledge of Windows security architecture.
• Experience with packet capture software.
• Experience with sysinternals tools.
• DNS knowledge.
• Networking experience.
• Experience with windows registry.
• Experience with sandbox security technologies and hyper-v.
• Experience with Fiddler, Wireshark and network monitoring tools.
• Experience with pcap and ncap tooling.
• Ability to analyze packet captures and their implications in a secure network.
• Ability to write and update scripts.
• Familiarity with Git and development tooling.

Qualifications:

• Associate's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or a related field required.
• 8-10 years’ experience required.
• Experience testing software.
• Experience writing test documentation such as Test Plans, scripts and test results reports.
• Ability to analyze/interpret test results and provide recommendations to improve testing.