The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to successfully perform this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
We're looking for an entry-level embedded firmware QA Engineer to join our high-profile team. You will be responsible for delivering excellent software products to an international audience! This is a challenging and exciting position where you will conduct testing activities on software development projects within the Software Engineering department.
Responsibilities include assisting in the development and execution of test plans, scripts and cases, assisting in the design and implementation of test environments, and the identification and management of issues for each development project.
- Under general direction, plans and performs engineering duties for part of a major project or for projects of moderate complexity.
- May have some supervisory responsibility and mentoring of other team members.
- Acts as technical authority in areas of specialty on assigned projects.
- Assists all levels of software/firmware engineers, and project managers with design, testing, prototype building, test data set creation, and other activities related to testing.
- Uses established policies and procedures to complete work assignments.
- Work assignments are varied and of high scope and complexity.
- May be required to use specialized computer applications to perform duties.
- Must be extremely adaptive in responding to ad hoc testing issues that arise, and still be able to successfully multi-task and prioritize to meet scheduled testing objectives.
- Represent Company in a positive, professional manner when working with both external and internal customers.
- Support and adhere to Company’s Code of Conduct and Ethics Policy.
- Perform other duties as assigned or required.
- Create, revise, and execute test plans and test cases
- Communicates effectively and works closely with internal and external resources
- Provides status reports and participate in departmental and project team meetings and email communications
- Identifies testing risks and propose solutions to mitigate
- Provides escalations in a timely manner and through the appropriate channels
- Establishes and maintains strong working relationships with cross functional team members
- Provides input into continually improving quality processes and procedures
- Serves as an escalated support resource for products released
- Work directly with software developers to ensure requirement implementation/verification correctness and to review test case coverage.
- Detect, document, and track system defects throughout the SQA process
- Write software defect reports. Identify and record the exact sequence of activities that were performed to produce software malfunctions.
- Investigate software defects and problem reports to provide additional information in the report to aid defect fixing.
- Review defect reports submitted into the TFS for validity.
- Submit change requests against the software when requirements are incorrect.
- Review log files and other run-time documentation for defects and issues
- Follow project and corporate software plans, standards, and procedures to perform software verification
- Develop manual and automated functional and regression tests for web services and web based user interfaces
- Participate in meetings regarding requirements and ensure software meets these requirements
Required Skills
- Must possess strong written and oral communications skills
- Excellent troubleshooting ability
- Team player with strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Understanding of configuration issues related to software development
- Familiar with Agile Methodology
- Experience testing web services for functionality, load and scalability
- Experience testing HTML5 based user interfaces
- Experience testing web-based user interfaces, GXT/GWT a plus
- Experience testing software with database components, SQL a plus
- Experience with source control and automated build systems
- Familiar with the full software development life cycle
- MS Office Suite
- Ability to work under tight deadlines
- Very good Windows experience
- Linux and Unix experience is a plus
- Experience with Quality Assurance Test Tools is desirable.
- Able to convey information concisely and clearly to all levels of personnel.
- Able to communicate with users in non-technical terms both verbally and in writing.
- Able to work with minimal supervision and to work on several active projects simultaneously.
- Exceptional interpersonal and teamwork skills.
Required Experience
- Requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field and 1-4 years of test development experience, or master’s degree in related field and 0-2 years of engineering experience
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