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Senior Software Engineer ESO
2013-06-13 15:37:12| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
We are a leader company in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific services with more than 45 years of experience working for NASA and 35 years working for ESA. We seek a candidate for a postion located at ESO European Southern Observatory located in Garching near Munich, Germany. Title Senior Software Engineer FCft 62.1 Education University degree in Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent. Work Description The Software Engineering Department SED in the Directorate of Engineering DoE provides the development teams with software engineering services including the provision of an environment and tools to define and support the software life cycle. The department is also in charge of integrating software modules, preparing releases and verifying and validating software products before delivery to customers. In addition, continuous regression testing is performed to ensure that existing functionality is still working when adding new features. The required services consist of Testing applications for the VLT project according to ESO Software Quality Assurance SQA standards. It includes collecting and understanding the user requirements, producing and automating test cases, plans and reports. Platform used Scientific Linux Testing applications for the ALMA project according to ESO SQA standards. It includes collecting and understanding the user requirements, producing and automating test cases, plans and reports. Platform used Scientific Linux Maintaining and upgrading the automatic inspection tool currently in use tool developed in house and written in Perl Analyzing test results and investigating the causes in collaboration with the developers Contributing to the establishment and implementation of standards for testing across projects environment, procedures, tools and documentation Experience and Knwoledge The ideal consultant is a software engineer with a minimum of 3 years experience in testing complex software systems on UNIX platform, preferably Linux. He or she shall be able to support ESOs team in any manual testing as well as implementation of fully automated tests. Testers are also expected to write documentation on test tools and environment as well as test case descriptions and test reports. The consultant must be familiar with software development and test methodologies and standard software engineering practices and have an excellent knowledge of scripting languages UNIX shell, Perl and software build tools. Experience with tools for static and dynamic code checking is desirable. Essential skills include Testing of complex software products in UnixLinux environment Test automation UnixLinux tools and Make files Excellent command of the English language Very good oral and written communications kills Flexibility Customer orientation and a strong sense for quality development Desired skills include Experience with continuous integration and related tooling, e.g. Cruise Control Familiarity with international organizations Location ESO headquarters in Garching near Munich, Germany Assignment Support to the Pipeline Systems Department PSD in Directorate of Engineering DoE Start Date 01.01.2014 Duration 36 months and option to extend by 24 months Full time equivalent Applications Interested candidates should send cv and cover letter to vicente.ruizesa.int by 10th July 2013.
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