Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company committed to developing innovative technology solutions to the world’s water challenges. The Company’s products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor and return water to the environment in public utility, industrial, residential and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced infrastructure analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities. The Company’s more than 16,500 employees bring broad applications expertise with a strong focus on identifying comprehensive, sustainable solutions. Headquartered in Rye Brook, New York with 2017 revenue of $4.7 billion, Xylem does business in more than 150 countries through a number of market-leading product brands.

 

 The name Xylem is derived from classical Greek and is the tissue that transports water in plants, highlighting the engineering efficiency of our water-centric business by linking it with the best water transportation of all – that which occurs in nature. For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com. Sensus, a Xylem brand, helps a wide range of public service providers – from utilities to cities to industrial complexes and campuses – do more with their infrastructure to improve quality of life in their communities. We enable our customers to reach farther through the application of technology and data-driven insights that deliver efficiency and responsiveness. We partner with them to anticipate and respond to evolving business needs with innovation in sensing and communications technologies, data analytics and services. Learn more at sensus.com and follow @SensusGlobal on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Role: Sensus, a Xylem brand, seeks to hire a Senior Configuration Tester who will be part of the Sensus Professional Services team and support customer specific request pertaining to managing live meters/endpoints in production and test environments. This resource will perform configuration changes as well as consult on issue seen by customers in the field. Duties include reviewing test cases, creating configuration scripts, database queries, creating batch jobs, providing technical understanding both internally and externally, troubleshooting, monitoring and technical assistance directly to customers.

Essential Functions:

• Consult directly with customers on field issues
• Testing of meter configuration
• Perform meter configuration
• General understanding of the meter’s current state
• Locating RF routes to the meters
• Pinging meters for missing data (Setup, Binding, Metadata, etc.)
• Tuning meters and/or nearby meters as necessary
• Adding meters to FNMS No Tune list as necessary
• Customer training
• Manage the Encryption state of all electric meters/water endpoints
• Update GPS coordinates in the FlexNetDB as well as at the meter with data
• Develop automation to increase productivity for current and future releases

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Science; advanced degree desirable.
• 5+ years as a software QA Engineer, IT Infrastructure Architecture, Design, implementation of web service oriented JAVA applications, operating systems, Database support.
• 5+ years experience with automated and manual testing, creating and executing test cases/scripts and working within software engineering technical environment
• Good written and oral communications skills required.
• Solid experience with Microsoft tools, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• VMware, Smartware, XML, SOAP UI
• Excellent validation skills: Planning, problem solving, debug, adversarial testing
• C#/C/C++, .NET, Visual Basic, Tcl/Perl/Java/shell-scripting/Unix or Linux.
• Oracle, MS–Access, RDBMS, SQL Server, PostgreSQL

Physical Demands:

(The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Light lifting (20-25 lbs.), office environment
• Regularly required to sit or stand, reach, bend and move about the facility

Work Environment:

(The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Office: Standard office equipment; work usually performed in an office setting free from any disagreeable elements.
• Standard weekly job hours: 40 hours
• Travel: 25%

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