Firmware Test Engineer

Job Description:

• Design and execute functional, negative, performance, and stress tests for embedded wireless and MCU products.
• Work closely with the development team(s) to debug problems found during the test cycle
• Develop automation tests so they can be run regularly as part of a continuous integration infrastructure
• Assist in resolving customer issues by working closely with the customer support team to answer and reproduce customer-related issues
• Emulates customer environments by working closely with the sales team and field application engineers in supporting customer’s needs and debugging customer’s problems
• Build, manage, and maintain a distributed test network
• Simplification and automation of product deployments and platform changes
• Productivity increase of the team through identifying opportunities to automate and script daily tasks and eliminate waste in existing processes

Responsibilities

• Implement automation test cases based on test plans.
• Investigate test results in continuous integration systems.
• Write custom embedded applications.

Skills required

• Experience in bootloader and Firmware test automation.
• Experience in bare metal environments
• Experience in low-level drivers (SPI, UART, I2C, etc.)
• Experience with C, Java, and scripting languages such as Perl or Python.
• Communicate well and work well in a small cross-functional team
• Experience in RTOS systems (uc OS, FreeRTOS, etc.)
• Conversation fluency in English.

Key Skills

• Python (intermediate to high) AND/OR C (beginner to intermediate).
• Embedded system bootloader/firmware feature/fuzz testing.
• Cryptography (hands on encryption, authentication, sign/verify and/or wrap/unwrap).
• Good to have experience with secure-boot, Trust-zone, FIPS compliance tests, PSA architecture
• Communication protocols - SPI, UART, I2C, etc

Good to have:

• Experience with RTOS, continuous integration techniques, Java/Junit, Jenkins, Dockers.