Software Engineer, Test & Infrastructure I

Vail Systems

full-time

Posted on: 8/19/2025

Location: Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $68,300 - $90,000 per year

JuniorMid-Level

DockerJavaJavaScriptJenkinsJUnitKubernetesLinux.NETNoSQLPerlPythonRSpecRubySQL

About the role

Develop & Maintain Automation: Write clean, modular, and data-driven test code that adapts to evolving APIs and features, helping reduce flakiness and brittleness in automation.
Contribute to Test Frameworks: Assist in building and enhancing frameworks that validate complex systems, including telecom protocols, APIs, and media flows.
Hands-On Testing: Participate in functional, regression, and integration testing across distributed environments—learning how to analyze failures and reproduce tricky edge cases.
Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with developers, QA engineers, and DevOps teams to ensure that quality is embedded in every stage of the development lifecycle.
Learn CI/CD Practices: Support Jenkins pipelines, containerized test environments, and automated regression runs, building familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker.
Explore Data Analysis: Query SQL and NoSQL databases to set up test data, validate results, and troubleshoot automation issues.
Support Agile Delivery: Take part in sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and backlog grooming with a QA-first mindset.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
Experience: 0–2+ years in software development or test automation.
Programming Skills: Familiarity with languages such as Ruby, Java, C#/.NET, C++, Perl, Python, or JavaScript.
Test Frameworks: Exposure to tools such as JUnit, NUnit, TestNG, RSpec, or Cucumber.
Platforms: Comfortable working in Linux and/or Windows environments.
Databases: Basic knowledge of SQL and NoSQL systems.
Problem-Solving: Ability to think critically and troubleshoot complex issues in a short time.
Agile Mindset: Experience with Agile or similar iterative development methodologies.