Sr Software Test Engineer

Do you want to work for a global company that creates remarkable experiences through people, products, and food? If you want to be part of a rewarding People First culture that values relationships, trust, and taking the long view, then this is the place for you. Henny Penny was named the 2021 Dayton Business of the Year for many good reasons. Read on to learn more!

The Sr Software Test Engineer plays a key role in supporting the design, development, validation and launch of new products and product changes.  This role works with design engineers and project teams to formally test software components, systems, and various other changes.  The role is primarily responsible for developing and executing software test plans to identify software problems and their causes and performs a mentorship role in ensuring design engineers and project teams understand the reasoning of the tests in the test plan.

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work for a company that is 100% employee-owned. As an employee-owner, you will be enrolled in our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) program following one year of service. This is a qualified retirement plan that is separate from your 401k and consists only of Henny Penny shares that will be paid out when you retire (or when you leave the company, but we hope you’ll stay)
• Annual company performance bonus in addition to base salary
• Flexibility to work from home 2 days per week
• Defined career paths so you’ll always know what’s next and what steps can get where you want to go
• Professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement and unlimited free access to LinkedIn Learning courses
• A competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, PTO, and paid holidays
• Onsite wellness clinic offering preventive care services such as wellness screenings, annual physicals, and related lab work at no cost to employee-owners
• Activities including department outings, holiday parties, and our annual company-wide Thanksgiving Dinner

What You’ll Be Doing

• Work with engineering teams to create and document software test plans.
• Document software defects, using a bug tracking system, report defects to product teams and cross functional groups.
• Work with cross functional teams to review requirements and provide test criteria for those requirements. 
• Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.
• Monitor bug resolution efforts and track successes.
• Review software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, or completeness, or to mitigate risks.
• Investigate customer problems referred by technical support.
• Conduct historical analyses of test results.
• Coordinate user or third-party testing.
• Collaborate with customer support staff or customers to evaluate or diagnose problems and recommend possible solutions.
• Develop testing processes that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability.
• Ensure internal engineering teams understand the requirements and pass/fail criteria of software test plans.
• Train, mentor, and coach engineers as part of regular interactions with other engineers/design teams.
• Work with all levels of engineering and other business units.
• Consistently models the Company Values and Expected Behaviors.
• Other duties as assigned.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or related field.
• 8 years experience in software testing.
• Experience designing test scripts, developing test plans, writing test reports
• Experience in agile software development methodologies
• High understanding of software testing, concepts, practices and lifecycle, programming skills
• Practical working knowledge of software testing methodology
• Demonstrated competency in training and mentoring other Engineers.
• Strong problem-solving skills-RCA (Root Cause Analysis)
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, including demonstrated success presenting to large groups
• Excellent communication, organization, and time management skills
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment.

About Us

We’re known in our industry for making the best commercial food equipment in the world. Every day, millions of people eat in restaurants operating Henny Penny equipment. We’re a behind-the-scenes engine in the world’s most demanding kitchens, including long-term partners like McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, KFC, and Wendy’s. We’re 1,000+ employee-owners who thrive by living a People First mission: to support employees in becoming the best version of themselves both personally and professionally.

We recently completed the largest expansion in our history with the addition of 150,000 square feet on our Eaton campus. This expansion drives development of the world’s most reliable, easy-to-use equipment with an innovative new space for global research and development. We have several collaborative spaces for our project teams, a dedicated electrical engineering lab for our hardware and software engineers, a full model shop for rapid prototyping, and a brand-new test lab that has 300 feet of hood space to test new equipment on our product roadmap. On top of that, we have a new state-of-the-art kitchen for our food science group to meet with our customers, understand what they need, and then dial in our equipment to help them make legendary menu items.

Henny Penny is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), marital status, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.