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The Senior Test Engineer is responsible for developing and executing test strategies that help ensure the quality, reliability, security, and usability of Fortra’s software products. This role partners closely with Product Management, Software Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to identify product risks, improve test coverage, investigate complex defects, and support successful product releases.

The Senior Test Engineer works as a senior individual contributor and may lead testing activities across projects, coordinate the work of other testers, mentor less-experienced team members, and contribute to the development of testing standards and automation practices.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Develop test strategies, estimates, plans, and coverage approaches for new features and product releases.
• Perform risk-based test analysis and communicate test coverage, quality risks, and release readiness to project stakeholders.
• Design and execute functional, integration, system, regression, exploratory, and non-functional testing.
• Develop and maintain automated tests using AI-assisted development tools, validating generated code and tests to improve coverage, reliability, and feedback speed.
• Investigate, reproduce, troubleshoot, and isolate complex, intermittent, and environment-specific defects.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering, Product Management, and other stakeholders during requirements and design reviews.
• Identify gaps, ambiguities, and potential risks in product requirements and designs.
• Participate in defect triage and help determine severity, priority, root cause, and appropriate resolution.
• Coordinate test activities across multiple testers or project workstreams, as assigned.
• Provide testing estimates and recommendations that support project planning and release decisions.
• Maintain accurate test cases, test results, defects, and supporting documentation in applicable project and test management systems.
• Contribute to testing standards, processes, templates, and knowledge-management materials.
• Share product and testing knowledge with internal teams outside of Development, including Support and Customer Success.
• Mentor less-experienced testers and provide guidance on testing techniques, tools, and processes.
• Participate in interviewing and evaluating test engineering candidates.
• Identify opportunities to improve test efficiency, automation, coverage, and overall product quality.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software quality assurance, software testing, or test engineering.
• Experience creating test plans, test cases, test estimates, and risk-based testing approaches.
• Experience testing enterprise software, SaaS products, or complex technical applications.
• Strong experience with functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing.
• Experience investigating and documenting complex software defects.
• Experience with test management, defect tracking, and project collaboration tools.
• Demonstrated experience with test automation principles and at least one automation framework or tool.
• Working knowledge of at least one scripting or programming language.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across technical and business teams.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status.