Role: QA Engineer (Power systems)
About Rigil:
Rigil is an award-winning, woman-owned, small business that specializes in technology consulting, strategy consulting and product development. We value teamwork and strive to build strong leaders.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Type: Full Time
The role of a QA Engineer (Power systems) is integral to building and delivering our enterprise technology platform, which forms the backbone of our business. In this role you would lead the quality practices and testing effort for the entire end to end stack of our platform including our hardware products, firmware, mobile apps, and the software platform that connects our installed hardware, connectivity network, and customers. This platform streamlines the marketing, delivery, installation, and maintenance of our energy products globally.
Your work will be pivotal in enabling the quality process around building our products and the adoption of the right QA automation tools and strategy. This position demands a unique combination of technical skill, knowledge in power systems, pragmatic orientation, user-centric thinking, and experience with connected devices.
Responsibilities
Work within Agile development frameworks, contributing to test strategy and execution across all phases of the product and software development lifecycle.
Be hands-on, relying on diagnostics, code/architecture review and lab experimentations to ensure products' reliable and consistent performance.
Have a high degree of ownership over the lab, planning out and building out new test systems as the situation demands.
Drive what’s important to test and troubleshoot — collaborating with engineers across the organization, product management, field service and partners.
Test device firmware, integrations with inverters, batteries, and other energy hardware covering a broad range of regression and new feature/integration testing.
Test the platform software including the mobile apps, web applications, and connected telemetry/OTA with devices.
Develop and execute system test plans/cases, maintain clear documentation of test plans, test cases and results.
Define and build manual and automated test fixtures with support from R&D team.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field; Advanced degree preferred.
At least 8 years of QA experience driving QA strategy, test execution, and automation.
Proven experience with testing hardware, firmware, and software in power systems applications.
Strong QA experience in SaaS and Multi-tenant software applications.
Familiarity with IoT platforms and applications with connected devices
Demonstrated analytical problem-solving skills, able to identify and surface issues within complex HW/SW systems.
Excellent team player, adaptable to a fast-paced, evolving startup environment.