QA Software Engineer, Consumer Products
Build and maintain automated test frameworks, CI/CD integration, and hardware-in-the-loop labs for device software quality assurance. Requires deep experience in software testing, automation, and hardware-software integration with proficiency in Python, C/C++/Rust, and Linux.
About the job
In this role, you will:
- Test infrastructure & frameworks: Design, implement, and maintain a unified test framework for device software (unit, integration, system/end-to-end), with adapters for GitHub/Linear/Slack and reproducible runs.
- CI/CD integration & releases: Integrate test suites with Buildkite, enforce promotion criteria (staging/prod), auto-file regressions, and publish traceable artifacts and release notes.
- Hardware-in-the-loop lab design & orchestration: Plan and bring up racks, power/networking, and orchestration for device testing; support automated flashing, provisioning, and telemetry capture.
- Automation tooling: Develop tools for API/firmware validation, result triage, log capture, and replayable bug reports.
- Quality signals, metrics, and flake control: Stand up dashboards and alerts for pass rates, stability, and release readiness; detect and quarantine flaky tests; drive root-cause analysis with owners; and track DORA-style delivery metrics to guard release health.
- Vendor enablement: Write clear procedures for QA vendor technicians, review their reports, and maintain a queue of rig maintenance/repairs.
- Cross-team collaboration: Partner with embedded/system software teams on testability and with release infrastructure engineers on pipelines, signing, rollouts, and rollback/forward strategies.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have deep experience in software quality/test engineering for hardware products shipped at scale, with a strong automation focus.
- Are proficient in Python, C, C++, or Rust, and have solid Linux fundamentals (processes, networking, storage, udev/systemd).
- Have experience building CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and environment isolation.
- Have demonstrated success designing and operating hardware-in-the-loop labs and device orchestration at scale.
- Are fluent with test reliability techniques such as failure triage, flake detection/quarantine, and signal quality guardrails.
- (Nice to have) Experience with device-lab frameworks (e.g., LAVA, OpenHTF) and results pipelines (dashboards/alerting).
- (Nice to have) Knowledge of release-readiness safeguards: staged rollouts, rollback plans, and signed firmware/software artifacts in CI/CD.
Skills
Python, C++, Rust, Linux, Buildkite, CI/CD, Hardware-In-The-Loop, Lava, Openhtf, GitHub
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