System Integration and Test Engineer

Viasat, Inc. • Carlsbad, CA

67d • $101,000 - $159,500

About The Position

At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team. In this position, you will be working within a systems integration and test team including development operations, systems, and software test engineers. You will be collaborating with software development and network engineering teams in defining and executing manual and automated test suites for the hardware and software components of a large-scale satellite communications system. You will be responsible for software bug and hardware defect lifecycle tracking as well as system configuration management, and deployment automation. Your work will include defining and documenting software test and software deployment procedures and support testing them in the lab and use in production to update the customer’s network to the latest and greatest software patches. In this role, you may grow into development and maintenance of automated software test, build and deployment processes including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) of new software builds into the lab test system as well as the production environment. Part of your responsibilities may include supporting our technical staff in analyzing and resolving issues reported in the customer network. You may also be responsible for performing complex system testing with multiple customer witnesses in attendance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical field
• 5-8 years’ work experience in systems engineering, test, or development operations
• Work experience in running manual and automated software test suites including unit, regression, performance, qualification, and acceptance testing
• Work experience in the development of deployment automation and configuration management playbooks or scripts
• Work experience in reporting, analyzing, and verifying software or hardware bugs/defects, and improvements
• Work experience writing technical documentation including software deployment procedures, test procedures, test plans and test reports
• Good working knowledge of software build process and automation principles
• Good working knowledge of Linux operating systems and being able to administer a Unix/Linux server
• Good working knowledge and understanding of the TCP/IP protocol and network stack
• Good oral and written communication skills and ability to work effectively with both internal team members and customer representatives
• Must be a US Citizen and have an ability to obtain a security clearance

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years’ experience working with software development, test automation and CI/CD tools such as Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, ArgoCD, Make etc.
• 3+ years’ experience or good working knowledge of using, developing, and testing high-level scripts preferably with bash and/or python languages
• Some work experience with virtualization technologies such as ESXI, OpenStack etc.
• Some work experience working with HP and/or DELL servers, and Cisco network equipment
• Some work experience working with satellite communication systems
• Work experience or good knowledge of containerization technology structures such as Docker, OpenShift, etc.
• Some work experience with traffic testing and analysis tools
• Some experience working with various test tracking and bug tracking tools such as Jama and Jira

Responsibilities

• Developing and documenting test procedures for various systems
• Performing manual and automated testing and documenting results
• Identifying, analyzing, and verifying and reporting software bugs and system defects
• Using configuration management and deployment automation tools to upgrade and patch Linux operating system and Network device patches in the lab and production environments
• Development of configuration management tasks for operating system configuration changes to include security updates
• Development of procedures, scripts, and playbooks to automate the update of company software and cots application packages
• Building software packages and performing vulnerability and security scans on the software bundles

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
• Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees