Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Independent Contractor)

Wolfram is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join its QA team for Mathematica, ensuring quality standards are met and improved with each release. The role involves managing external connection capabilities, developing QA procedures, reviewing features, and collaborating with developers.

Location: Remote (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru)

Responsibilities

• Managing all external connection capabilities such as MathLink, J/Link, DatabaseLink, RLink, integrated services, MongoLink, channel framework, database connections and external language interfaces
• Working with core technologies such as wolframscript, Raspberry Pi, gridMathematica, Wolfram Web Engine and Wolfram Compute Service
• Developing, maintaining and proving software quality assurance procedures and tools
• Reviewing features to determine testing approaches and creating comprehensive software quality assurance test plans
• Planning and estimating test development cycles in coordination with the SQA manager and developers
• Collaborating with developers to ensure that the testing requirements are clear and the test plan is thorough
• Evaluating and recommending manual and automated test tools, techniques and methodologies
• Updating and supplementing existing test cases by comprehensively testing new features added for Wolfram Language test execution and review
• Filing, verifying and closing bugs found during testing or during the regression analysis phase
• Assisting during release cycles by providing software build verification for release candidates
• Assisting technical support by answering specific customer questions as and when required

Requirements

• Proficiency in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's degree or higher in mathematics, computer science or a related field
• Experience programming in several languages, such as C, C++, Python or Java
• Familiarity with different operating systems, including popular Linux distros
• Strong working knowledge of multivariate calculus and linear algebra