Firmware QA Engineer

Telematics - Firmware Quality Assurance Engineer

Description

Trimble is an exciting, entrepreneurial company, with a history of exceptional growth coupled with a disciplined and strategic focus on being the best. While GPS is at our core, we have grown beyond this technology to embrace other sophisticated positioning technologies and, in doing so; we are changing the way the world works. Our solutions are used in over 140 countries and we have incredibly diverse lines of business.

Our employees represent this diversity and can be found in over 30 countries, working closely with their colleagues around the world. Due to our geographic, product and customer reach, there is plenty of room at Trimble for exceptional people to grow. Come position yourself with an innovative industry leader and position yourself for success.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a candidate to fill a Firmware Quality Assurance Engineer position in our Trimble Chennai office. The candidate will work closely with Hardware Engineering, Firmware Engineering development, Backend software engineering to test the firmware that is deployed on Trimble Telematics hardware. Success in this position will require the candidate to be highly organized and self-motivated to enable them to implement this framework quickly. The candidate will also assist with maintaining and expanding current black box test frameworks.

Key Responsibilities:

• To develop, design, implement, debug, support and maintain firmware.
• Perform testing and debugging with circuit emulators, logic analyzers.
• Specify and define firmware architecture.
• Implement and debug code and create supporting documentation.
• Respond to marketing requirements, architect, plan, and deliver effective interlocks with hardware and software organizations, ensuring quality deliverables while adhering to aggressive schedules.
• Work closely with firmware development and QA teams to define, generate, document, and run automated testing in black box and emulated environments
• Work with developers to design in the necessary test hooks to facilitate testing
• Writing automated test scripts, possibly controlling instrumentation, to run black box testing on embedded Linux devices containing Cellular, Wi-Fi, Networking, GPS and other technologies
• Generate detailed bug reports on findings,
• Participate in daily Sprint team stand-up meetings, bug scrubs and planning meetings across geographies.
• Review user stories, acceptance criteria and product requirements with customer experience in mind.
• Work with the product devolvement team to remove any ambiguity of the acceptance criteria.
• Develop test cases and test plans for software and firmware qualifications.
• Ensure all functionality meets design intent.
• Enforce In-Sprint QA processes and unit test coverage.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts.
• Actively deploy and test daily builds on test servers.
• Enter and track defects/bugs found in JIRA.

Provide weekly reports.

Key Qualifications:
For consideration, you must bring the following minimum skills and behaviors to our team:

BS or B-TECH in Electronics / Electrical / Computer Science Engineering or equivalent.
0 - 3 years of software and hardware testing experience.
Experience with Agile Scrum software development methodology is required.
Self motivated and goal oriented.
Strong communications and inter-personal team skills.
Familiarity with development and build environments and code repositories.
Strong fundamentals in QA methodologies and procedures, test planning and test case development.
Creative thinker, must have a systematic approach in problem solving.
Willing to learn new concepts and products quickly.
Pro-active in identifying issues and knowledge to bug tracking systems.