Senior Test Engineer

About the role

The Senior Test Engineer develops and executes test strategies that ensure the quality, reliability, security and usability of Fortra's software products. Working as a senior individual contributor, the role partners with Product Management, Software Engineering and other teams to identify risks, improve test coverage, investigate complex defects and support product releases. It also involves leading testing activities, mentoring less-experienced testers and contributing to testing standards and automation practices.

Key responsibilities

• Develop test strategies, estimates, plans and coverage approaches for new features and releases
• Perform risk-based test analysis and communicate coverage, quality risks and release readiness to stakeholders
• Design and run functional, integration, system, regression, exploratory and non-functional tests
• Build and maintain automated tests using AI-assisted development tools, validating generated code and tests
• Investigate, reproduce and isolate complex, intermittent and environment-specific defects
• Take part in requirements and design reviews, and in defect triage to set severity, priority and root cause
• Coordinate test activities across testers or workstreams and give testing estimates
• Maintain test cases, results, defects and documentation in project and test management systems
• Share product and testing knowledge with Support and Customer Success, and mentor junior testers
• Participate in interviewing and evaluating test engineering candidates

Required profile

• 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, 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
• Experience investigating and documenting complex software defects
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to work independently and collaborate across teams

Required skills

• Functional, integration, regression and exploratory testing
• Test management, defect tracking and project collaboration tools
• Test automation principles and at least one automation framework or tool
• Working knowledge of at least one scripting or programming language