Software Engineer in Test

About Swoop:

Swoop Technologies has a mission to organize and make accessible the world’s military and critical infrastructure. We are building a distributed operating system, SwoopOS, that decomposes the world’s equipment into a distributed robotic embodiment upon which a new generation of distributed systems, autonomous systems, and agentic AI can be built and deployed using our SDK, Valhalla, and operated via our browser, Surf. Imagine the world’s equipment - consisting of the electrical grid, communications architectures, manufacturing facilities, and militaries as a trapped supply of inputs possessing the potential to ensure Western military advantage, sovereign control of economically competitive manufacturing capacity, or the creation of a grid that fosters energy dominance. Swoop is liberating these trapped assets, allowing them to contribute to the world’s future as a series of building blocks to be combined at the speed of software, limited by only the hard constraints of physics and the soft constraints of safety. That is what Swoop is building. Not in the data center or cloud or edge on-premise computing node. In the physical world. This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul who can work in-office 3+ days per week

Impact:

As a SET, you will become an expert in our testing and tooling infrastructure at Swoop. You’ll be critical to increasing the expansion of our existing test automation frameworks and improving test coverage across a range of Swoop products that include hardware and embedded systems to a high performance web application. You will also be instrumental in identifying the tooling necessary to build automation and efficiency into our build process. Your work will help ensure a successful deployment of Swoop software into our customers' critical environments.

What You’ll Do:

• Build, scale, and help operate Swoop’s testing and tooling infrastructure

• Seek to automate unit, functional, and end to end testing - creating a gold standard testing environment

• Configure automated tests to execute reliably and efficiently in our CI/CD environments

• Identify and drive the adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability

• Ensure no regression and conducting manual testing of new and existing feature sets

• Work with engineers to define and implement best testing practices earlier in the development process

• Work with our deployment engineers to convert scenario based testing into an automated testing framework

You Should Have:

• 3+ yrs writing automated testing and tooling with working knowledge in Python and Javascript

• A strong understanding of CI/CD and Build pipelines

• An interest in continuing to grow your knowledge and skills in test infrastructure, frameworks, test provisioning, and configuration using GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker

• You understand the importance of testing versus QA, and bring a solid understanding of testing principles and methodologies

• A passion for working across multiple engineering teams, championing clean code, and building testing earlier into the development process

• A meticulous nature and attention to detail, driven to pick things apart and make development teams stronger

• Active US Security clearance or ability and willingness to be sponsored for a US Security clearance

• Travel Requirement - 5-20%

Bonus if you have:

• Experience writing test frameworks in several programming languages

• Have experience building internal tooling focused on automation, efficiency, and reliability

• Experience writing automated testing and tooling in C or Rust

Swoop Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Compensation (from employer):
$115K – $160K • Offers Equity