Lead System Engineering
Plano, Texas
Job Description:
JOB TITLE: Lead System Engineering
REMOTE TYPE: HYBRID
JOB LOCATION: 3400 W. Plano Pkwy., Plano TX 75075 [Hybrid Position]
DUTIES: Support quality assurance and test architecture responsibilities for major projects, validating critical customer flows in the online digital space. Responsible for designing and implementing test plans and strategies, writing, and executing test cases, identifying and creating defects and managing them through final resolution. Utilize test automation strategies to enhance test execution and coverage. Work with business stakeholders, development, and architects across teams to identify the high priority scenarios for end-to-end validation and coordinates the testing efforts. Analyze test results and metrics, prepares, and presents test status reports on a regular basis. Communicate progress proactively and regularly using available tools and strategies including scheduled and ad hoc meetings, formal jeopardies, escalations, daily/weekly progress reports, and defect metrics collections. Engage with impacted teams throughout all phases of the software development life cycle from project initiation to final production validation. Translate the core architecture for business requirements into the final technical solution including consisting of platform, network, software, and cloud through functional, performance, and reliability analysis using engineering models and techniques, primarily through software development throughout the vertical stack. Provide technical enablement for application components and subsystems for an application and drive important design decisions for development team. Elaborate the design and interfaces for specific components including defining subsystems and their interfaces, allocate responsibilities to subsystems, understand solution deployment, and communicate requirements for interactions with solution context. Align development teams to a shared technical direction and partners with those teams in elaborating the solution and its interfaces. Validate technology assumptions, evaluate implementation alternatives. Establish critical NFRs at the solution level, participate in the definition of others. Create and enable the continuous delivery pipeline including participating in planning, definition, and high-level design of the system solution and explore alternatives. Develop the architectural runway in support of new business features and capabilities. Participate in project planning, system and solution demos, retrospective workshops. Understand technical characteristics of and assist with architectural integration of external components, systems, and platforms. Work on test planning, test case design and execution for large-scale projects within an integrated test environment requiring validation across multiple touchpoints including API’s, microservices, email/SMS communications, file feeds, and UI components. Work with SCRUM, Agile, and DevOps methodology. Work with mobile application testing for iOS and Android. Understand multi-tier web application architecture, micro-service technologies, Devops model and on-prem/cloud integration. Work knowledge of database, ability to write basic sql queries. Utilize monitoring tools including Kibana, ELK logs, Dynatrace and QM for defect triaging and troubleshooting. Utilize automation tools including Katalon studio and Gen AI.
REQUIREMENTS: Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent degree in Electronic Engineering or Computer Science, and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered, or 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in a related occupation working on test planning, test case design and execution for large-scale projects within an integrated test environment requiring validation across multiple touchpoints including API’s, microservices, email/SMS communications, file feeds, and UI components; working with SCRUM, Agile, and DevOps methodology; working with mobile application testing for iOS and Android; understanding of multi-tier web application architecture, micro-service technologies, Devops model and on-prem/cloud integration; working knowledge of database, ability to write basic sql queries; utilizing monitoring tools including Kibana, ELK logs, Dynatrace and QM for defect triaging and troubleshooting; utilizing automation tools including Katalon studio and Gen AI.
Our Lead System Engineerings earn between $156,998 - $215,800 yearly. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers.
Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:
· Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
· 401(k) plan
· Tuition reimbursement program
· Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
· Paid Parental Leave
· Paid Caregiver Leave
· Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
· Adoption Reimbursement
· Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
· Life and Accidental Death Insurance
· Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
· Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
· Extensive employee wellness programs
· Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone
Weekly Hours:
40Time Type:
RegularLocation:
Plano, TexasIt is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.
Job ID R-76372 Date posted 08/07/2025
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