Sr. Software Engineer at USPRO

Sr. Software Engineer
Minneapolis, MN
Duration: 6 month contract (temp to perm)


We have an opening for an individual with a minimum of 6 years of professional experience in verification testing of real-time, embedded software. This experience might be gained in a test role within a software development organization or gained within a software Quality Assurance organization, depending upon how the organization is structured. In either case, the successful candidate will have experience performing requirements-based software verification of embedded software. The Senior Software Test Engineer plans and performs a variety of tasks across the areas of software requirements analysis, documentation, hardware-software integration, troubleshooting, problem solving, and software verification testing. The Senior Software Engineer:

• Has knowledge of the full software development lifecycle
• Has experience working on programs involving the development, maintenance, upgrade, and porting of embedded product software and/or product support software to enhance, implement and support project/system functionality for the assigned technical effort.
• Mentors less experienced software engineers and software test engineers to help develop their software development and test capabilities and troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Collaborates across the other engineering disciplines such as Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, and Systems.
• Ensures that technical approach is consistent with established engineering principles and practices.
• Ensures that product outcomes meet customer needs and that customer and company technical, system, performance, process, and quality requirements are met.

Required Qualifications:

• Develop, debug, and execute automated and manual requirements-based software verification testing
• Use version control and issue tracking tools
• Experience developing tests using TestStand and/or LabView tools from NI  
• Experience developing, analyzing, and/or reviewing requirements for safety critical real-time embedded software
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM field

Preferred Qualifications:

• Traceability across software requirements, design, and verification artifacts
• Testing and troubleshooting software in the areas of communications, device drivers, and IO interfaces
• Integrating and testing software with various real-time operating systems such as vxWorks and Linux/Unix derivatives
•  Experience working with software architecture and design information captured in models (using tools such as Magic Draw, Enterprise Architect, or similar model-based engineering tool). Familiarity with weapon systems, munitions, and/or combat vehicle functionality and capability Experience using GitLab or other CI / CD tools
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science