Photogrammetry - Quality Assurance Engineer (ERDAS (formerly Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging))

About ERDAS

ERDAS creates geospatial business systems that transform our earth's data into business information, enabling individuals, businesses and public agencies to quickly access, manage, process, and share that information from anywhere.

Using secure geospatial information, ERDAS solutions improve employee, customer and partner visibility to information, enabling them to respond faster and collaborate better. It also means better decision-making, increased productivity and new revenue streams.

ERDAS is a part of the Hexagon Group, Sweden. For more information about ERDAS or its products and services, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 866 534 2286, or visit www.erdas.com .


Position: Quality Assurance Engineer


Job Summary:


As a member of a fast paced, cutting edge geospatial software development team, you will be responsible in setting the quality objective of our products, reviewing requirements and validating products adhere strictly to requirements and specifications. You are also expected to provide technical expertise in domain knowledge and quality procedures & processes


Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

-Involvement in the SDLC from design to release, in a fast paced, quality driven agile environment

-Participate in product requirement walkthrough sessions to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, and potential challenges.

-Design quality objectives and test strategies, implement and execute test cases to ensure highest quality deliverables.

-Involvement in Reviewing/improving of testing processes and automation of test cases

-Report software issues into a database, track and update reports through the SDLC.

-Provide technical expertise to various groups within the organization (Technical Support, Training, Sales...)

Education:

-Bachelor*s degree in geomatics engineering, mapping Science or equivalent education and work experience.

Please submit resumes to careers@gi.leica-geosystems.com


To learn more information about ERDAS Inc., please visit our company website at www.erdas.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer valuing diversity

Required Expertise:

-A solid understanding of photogrammetric theory and principles

-Hands on experience in all phases of photogrammetric workflows (terrain extraction and editing, ortho mosaicing, and feature extraction *)

-Experience working with commercial satellite imageries.

-Strong organizational and time management skills, including the ability to multi-task and work independently with minimum supervision to meet firm deadlines

-Excellent written and verbal communication skills as exemplified by clear issue explanations, documentation and effective intra- and inter-group communications.


Desired Expertise:

-Solid understanding of NGA foundation data types (specs, production process, data content) * CIB, DPPDB, FFD, UFD, VMAP/UVMAP, DNC, DTED, HRTI, ICM

-Substantial direct experience with all aspects of producing NGA foundation data products. This includes project and data preparation, data ingestion/processing, collection, finishing

-Experience in designing production workflows, process improvements and software evaluations

-Experience in designing and executing QA/QC of products

-Familiarity with Software test Automation tools.

Others:

-Must be capable of obtaining a US Security Clearance.

-Familiar with ArcGIS, LPS and other COTS geoprocessing packages