Senior QA Engineer – USP and Video Surveillance (VS/Acuity)
HybridCentennial, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Plan and execute functional, regression, integration, and solutions testing for USP and VS/Acuity releases, covering new features, failure scenarios, and customer configurations. Design and maintain test rigs replicating real-world surveillance deployments, including VMS integrations and multi-node clusters, while performing security and vulnerability testing to validate fixes and hardening requirements. Manage the QA lab environment, assign and coordinate test tasks across the team, and reproduce customer-reported issues spanning virtualization, storage, and networking. Contribute to product documentation and deliver training on test procedures and lab practices.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of QA engineering experience, including time in a senior or lead capacity
- Strong hands-on manual testing background with enterprise software, storage, virtualization, or infrastructure platforms
- Experience building and managing physical test environments — server hardware setup, cabling, component replacement, and lab logistics
- Solid working knowledge of VMware environments (vSphere, ESXi, vMotion, HA/DRS) and hyperconverged infrastructure concepts
- Strong hands-on experience with Linux and Windows Server environments
- Familiarity with networking fundamentals (VLANs, bonding/teaming, iSCSI, multicast) and storage concepts (RAID, erasure coding, block/file storage)
- Experience writing clear, thorough test plans and test cases, and documenting results for engineering and executive audiences
- Experience with security/vulnerability testing and remediation validation (e.g., Qualys, Nessus, or similar scan tooling)
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate work across a team — assigning tasks, tracking progress, and mentoring junior engineers
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work across engineering, support, and customer-facing teams
Desired Qualifications
- Direct experience with video surveillance products or VMS platforms (Milestone, Genetec, Avigilon, or similar)
- Experience testing hyperconverged or clustered systems, including node failure, fencing, and live-migration scenarios
- Familiarity with virtualization certification programs (VMware Ready, hardware compatibility qualification)
- Test automation or scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell) to supplement manual test execution
- Experience supporting enterprise customer escalations, including issue reproduction and root-cause investigation
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and defect tracking tools (Jira or similar)
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