About the position
This position plays a critical role in the testing of Avive’s embedded software from early design stages through commercialization, ensuring that all products comply with internal, regulatory, and customer requirements. Additionally, this position plays an active role in providing best-in-class quality engineering practices by focusing on automating and executing tasks in an efficient and effective manner.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end testing between internal and external systems, connected hardware products, cloud-based databases, and applications.
- Create and maintain test plans, write automated and manual test cases, and execute verification tests based on software requirements and specifications.
- Triage defects from opening to closure. Log reproduction steps, participate in impact analysis, recommend solutions, and execute regression tests. Find root causes and work with engineers to ensure closure.
- Develop and maintain automation framework with dedicated hardware fixtures using Pytest.
- Create and deliver software project documentation, including IUVs, design verification test plans, test protocols, and test reports.
- Consider and implement unit and system level tests.
- Design, develop and test software tools that aid in development and manufacturing.
- Maintain focus on delivering the highest quality product to our customers.
- Work closely with the firmware development team for a deep and nuanced understanding of implementation detail.
Requirements
- BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or equivalent combination of relevant coursework and job-related experience.
- Minimum of five (5) years in a software test position for embedded systems.
- Ability to write, debug, and review python for hardware-control libraries and automated tests.
- Python, C/C++, ARM CPUs, Embedded Linux experience.
- Understanding of basic engineering lab equipment, electronics and firmware design.
- Experience using IDEs such as MPLab, Segger Embedded Studio, VS code, or similar.
- Experience in using Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.
- Experience with wireless networking test protocols – Cellular, BLE, WiFi.
- Experience using Git, defect tracking in Jira, and participating in an Agile with scrum development process.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including technical writing. Good documentation is a must!
