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# Software QA Automation Engineer III

- **Company:** AeroVironment, Inc.
- **Location:** Melbourne, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $91,000.0 - $138,750.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Data Analysis, Automation of Tests, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Software Debugging, DevOps
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000glbrqp

## About the Role

Bachelor's degree in related discipline is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience

 + Minimum 5 - 8 years of relevant experience

 + Experienced in Software QA automation

 + Experienced in building and optimizing automation frameworks

 + Experienced performing code reviews and mentoring team members on automation concepts and best practices

Other Qualifications & Desired Competencies

 + Champions quality by forging influential relationships across QA, Development, Product, and DevOps

 + Demonstrates strong debugging / problem resolution skills, and competency in multitasking and handling multiple time critical issues / projects simultaneously

 + Demonstrates passion to continuously improve and execute tests for a faster and higher quality result

 + Is an experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways

 + Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions

 + Able to excel in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, where small teams share a broad variety of duties

 + Displays strong initiative and drive to accomplish goals and meet company objectives

 + Takes ownership and responsibility for current and past work products

 + Is committed to learning from mistakes and driven to improve and enhance performance of oneself, others, and the company

 + Has effective interpersonal and communication skills

 + Focuses on teamwork, collaboration and puts the success of the team above one's own interests

Physical Demands

 + Ability to work in an office and R&D environment (Constant)

 + Required to sit and stand for long periods, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard

## Description

The **Software QA Automation Engineer III** designs automated solutions to perform applicable software validations. In this role, one regularly collaborates with our development team but also operates with a large degree of autonomy.

Position Responsibilities

 + Participates in the design, expansion and maintenance of automated testing suite

 + Defines and plan scope, resource needs, benchmarks and goals of manual & automation work

 + Defines and implement QA practices, procedures, standards and reporting

 + Identifies project risks, quantify risk/benefit relationships and provide alternative solutions as well as risk mitigation

 + Designs test plans, scenarios and cases to exercise new functionality & identify breaking issues

 + Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, cloud-based or Internet-related computer programs

 + Partners with resources as needed to validate software with project timeline

 + Mentors less experienced team members on QA/QC concepts, methodologies and best practices

 + Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors

 + Other duties as assigned


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