Embedded Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title: Embedded Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Atlanta GA (5 days a week at the Northyards office)

Duration: 12+ months (Est. End Date: 12/11/2027)

Minimum Qualifications:

· Strong experience testing embedded systems. Examples: HVAC systems, set top boxes, telecommunications systems like routers, modems, and switches, robots, industrial control systems, and avionics systems

· Extensive experience analyzing system, application, or event logs

· Strong working knowledge of shell scripting, and unix command line tools

· Excellent knowledge of both embedded and full stack software development lifecycle, testing methodologies, and testing tools

· Experience partnering with development teams

· Strong knowledge of testing IoT devices including knowledge in OS (Linux), at least one software language (Java) and backend protocols communicating to hardware

· Ability to use backend communication protocols such as APIs and web services

· Fluent in quality assurance metrics, operations, and statistics

· Experience in developing a test plan, assessing risk, detailing defects, and providing relevant data for test reporting

· Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution

· Ability to work independently, raise issues and take corrective action

· Detail oriented, analytical, and creative thinker with passion for quality processes

Highly Preferred Qualifications:

· Computer Science degree or equivalent engineering degree with three years of industry experience

· Test automation tools (Selenium, Junit, Javascript, Java, Groovy)

· Knowledge of version control systems such as GIT or similar tools

Responsibilities:

· As a QA Engineer you will work closely with the dispenser development team, management, and product owners to deliver and test new features and ongoing platform innovation to ensure the highest quality of the Freestyle fleet of dispensers and other connected equipment.

· Work closely with development resources to understand overall dispenser design and streamline testing of new features

· Define test coverage, develop test plans, create and maintain test cases, execute both manual and automated functional and performance tests that that successfully identify issues and mitigate risk to the dispenser fleet

· Analyze dispenser logs to assist development resources in defect debugging

· Leverage and enhance existing test tools to automate testing of physical dispensers

· Provide support for innovation projects and engineering prototypes

· Grow to be the subject matter expert of the embedded system and the dispenser functionality