Software QA Automation Engineer, III

Location: Moorpark, California, United States; onsite work in an office and R&D environment. Occasional travel within the Continental U.S. may be required, approximately 20%.

Salary: $100,500–$153,250 per year

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous systems and defense technologies across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains.

What you will do

• Design, expand, and maintain automated test suites and frameworks such as Xray.
• Own component, subsystem, and automated system tests; review requirements and co-author system test plans.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop regressions and engineering flight tests for embedded, networked, and mission systems software.
• Define QA practices, test scope, benchmarks, reporting standards, and risk-mitigation approaches.
• Design test plans, scenarios, and cases; analyze, program, debug, and modify test automation.
• Support defect reviews, mentor QA team members, and collaborate with development, DevOps, product, and system test teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 5–8 years of relevant experience in software QA automation.
• Proficiency in one or more of C, C++, Python, C#/.NET, or Java; experience with object-oriented design is beneficial.
• Experience building and optimizing automation frameworks, scripting in Python or a similar language, and working with Linux.
• Experience with source control, CI pipelines such as GitLab, code reviews, and mentoring on automation practices.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, or protected individual with qualifying asylee/refugee status; U.S. person status is required for ITAR/EAR compliance. U.S. citizenship may be required for some government contracts.

Nice to have

• Experience testing embedded, robotics, UAS, safety-critical, or mission-critical software.
• Familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop environments and laboratory hardware.
• Experience with AI-assisted development and test tools.
• Security clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with a 9/80 work schedule.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan with company matching.
• Paid holiday shutdown.
• Work in a mission-focused environment developing autonomous defense systems.