March 29, 2024
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Senior Firmware Quality Assurance Engineer

Organization:
Silver Spring Networks, Inc.
Region:
United States, California, San Jose
End of contest:
February 8, 2018
  This job posting has expired
Type:
Full time
Category:
Engineer
Description
Silver Spring Networks is dedicated to solve some of the world's most pressing problems. Our networking solutions span 1.5 million square miles on five continents and cover nearly 60 million people, turning information into insights for utilities and cities around the globe. Now we're creating solutions to the next wave of global challenges. With our new Internet of Things (IoT) initiative, Starfish, cities around the globe can leverage our proven solutions to connect intelligent devices and sensors to address energy, smart-city, logistics, and environmental monitoring that impact everyday life.
Our goal is greater energy efficiency to improve quality of life for all individuals, utilities, cities and the planet.

In this role you will join a team of QA and development engineers working with new releases of firmware for our network devices. You will design test plans to cover new products and features, execute and automate tests to verify embedded software and new functionality, document test results, investigate test failures and document bugs in our issue tracking system. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical understanding of embedded systems, QA processes, wireless networks, and network protocols, experience developing automated test suites, and possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Essential functions

  • Technical and project leadership.
  • Actively design test plans and processes.
  • Release quality firmware with measurable results.
  • Work with engineering (software, hardware, manufacturing), program and product managers, and customer facing team members to create test processes, test specifications, test cases for sanity, integration, regression, alpha, beta and production testing.
  • Report and track bugs, debug issues to root cause.

Required Experience:

  • Project management and team leadership.
  • Plan and drive firmware releases on predictable schedules.
  • Hands-on experience to execute, debug, and automate tests for distributed embedded systems and applications. Includes negative, performance and stress tests to increase code and functional test coverages.
  • Automation development (Perl, Python, Ruby, Bash). Create and extend automated test suites or test frameworks.
  • Debug and read C in embedded software.
  • An understanding of testing, software release engineering, build management including source control, bug tracking, and system level testing for product release to customer.
  • Hands-on experience with digital electronics and network equipment.
  • 10+ years of experience in software, distributed systems and integration testing and debugging hardware, software, and networks.

Education

Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering or equivalent.

Tracking Code 2442

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Contact

Silver Spring Networks, Inc.

555 Broadway Street

Redwood City

California United States

www.silverspringnet.com


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