Junior QA Engineer
Risco Group Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Security and Investigations · 501-1,000 employees
About the role
The role involves designing and executing test plans for embedded systems, firmware, and hardware interfaces to ensure product quality. You will analyze logs and hardware measurements to identify root causes of defects and collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the product lifecycle.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must hold a B.Sc degree in Electrical or Software Engineering and possess at least one year of experience in embedded systems testing. Strong analytical skills and familiarity with hardware debugging tools like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers are required.
Full description
We are seeking an Embedded QA Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of embedded hardware and software products. The role involves developing test, executing mainly manual automated tests, investigating failures, and collaborating with firmware, hardware, and systems teams throughout the product lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Design and execute test plans for embedded systems, firmware, drivers, and hardware interfaces.
- Perform functional, integration, regression, performance, stress, and reliability testing.
- Validate communication protocols such as GSM, Ethernet, or Wi-Fi.
- Test firmware upgrades, bootloaders, recovery mechanisms, and fault-handling behavior.
- Analyze logs, traces, RF signals, and hardware measurements to identify root causes.
- Reproduce, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution.
- Achieve quality metrics for product release decisions.
· B.Sc degree in Electrical/Software Engineering
- 1+ years of experience testing embedded systems or firmware.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and technical documentation skills (Experience in executing test cases based on specification documents and writing Test Documentation (STD, STP))
- A systemic vision and the capability to go into detail
- Good logical Thinking
- Ability to work independently and as part of team
- Good written and oral communication skills in English
- Strong understanding of embedded software, hardware-software integration, and real-time systems.
- Familiarity with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, multimeters, and serial consoles – is advantage.
- Ability to read technical specifications, schematics, logs, and protocol traces.
Additional requirements (at least two of the following):
· Experience in testing mixed environments (Hardware and Software)
· Knowledge with Communication protocols (GPRS, TCP/IP, etc)
· Experience in specifying and documenting bugs
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