Posted 24 days ago
Junior QA Engineer
AI Summary
The role designs and executes test plans for embedded hardware and firmware, mainly manual testing, investigating failures and tracking defects while collaborating with firmware, hardware and systems teams. It also validates communication protocols and firmware upgrade behaviour.
About this role
We are seeking a Junior Embedded QA Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of embedded hardware and software products. The role involves developing test, executing mainly manual tests, investigating failures, and collaborating with firmware, hardware, and systems teams throughout the product lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Design and execute test plans for embedded systems, firmware, drivers, and hardware interfaces.
- Perform functional, integration, regression, performance, stress, and reliability testing.
- Validate communication protocols such as GSM, Ethernet, or Wi-Fi.
- Test firmware upgrades, bootloaders, recovery mechanisms, and fault-handling behavior.
- Analyze logs, traces, RF signals, and hardware measurements to identify root causes.
- Reproduce, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution.
- Achieve quality metrics for product release decisions.
Requirements
Requirements
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and technical documentation skills (Experience in executing test cases based on specification documents and writing Test Documentation (STD, STP))
- A systemic vision and the capability to go into detail
- Good logical Thinking
- Ability to work independently and as part of team
- Good written and oral communication skills in English
- understanding of embedded software, hardware-software integration, and real-time systems An Advantage
- Familiarity with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, multimeters, and serial consoles – An advantage.
- Ability to read technical specifications, schematics, logs, and protocol traces An advantage
Optional requirements :
· Experience in testing mixed environments (Hardware and Software)
· Knowledge with Communication protocols (GPRS, TCP/IP, etc)
· Experience in specifying and documenting bugs
Skills
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