Product Test Engineer

Overview

Are you a geographer, GIS/data analyst, engineer or computer scientist who has a passion for building high-quality commercial software? We are looking for individuals with a dedication to quality and software engineering to join our team and help advance Esri's cutting-edge ArcGIS software.

Your work will involve discovering innovative ways to improve the products we deliver to our customers worldwide, finding ways to stress our code and build, automate and maintain test scenarios.

This challenging opportunity allows you to leverage your skills to design and build innovative automated tests. You will work with a diverse group of engineers and developers to implement creative solutions to complex quality assurance problems. You will also learn best practices from individuals that have decades of combined experience building ArcGIS, a premiere GIS platform.

Esri has a Relocation Assistance Program and can provide support with relocating to the Redlands, CA area for this position.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of dedicated software engineers and product engineers to design and author test cases
• Participate in assessing product quality and release readiness
• Identify and troubleshoot the causes of product issues and limitations
• Learn existing product technologies and troubleshoot production issues in current and past software platform versions
• Test software components and their functionality through the user interface and provide usable, informative feedback on user experience
• Document software issues found during testing; reproduce bugs and work closely with Software Development Engineers to resolve these issues
• Design and execute test strategies and test cases for functional requirements
• Monitor and analyze test results; collaborate across teams to ensure software quality and release readiness
• Reduce manual testing efforts by building and maintaining automated test scripts using tools like Selenium, Appium or SilkTest
• Develop and maintain ways to share test results and status to the wider team
• Develop coding samples using public ArcGIS SDKs

Requirements

• 2+ years of software testing experience
• Experience using an application development language, such as C#, Java or Python
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• A self-motivated team player with an interest in continuous learning and building software products
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, geography, GIS, mathematics, or related field