Hardware System Quality Assurance Engineer

Company: Calix
Location: Richardson
Posted on: November 17, 2020

Job Description:

Calix is seeking a talented and passionate engineer to lead hardware system quality assurance within the hardware development group. This position makes sure things don’t fall through the cracks at the boundary of hardware and software integration. The ideal individual understands both hardware and software design as well as testing. They will be responsible for enumerating all hardware capabilities and establishing a plan to verify proper hardware-software system behavior. This position assures the hardware-software integration is robust with no defects escaping into the field. The lead will develop custom test hardware, automated test suites and robust diagnostics suites. This position coordinates with multiple organizations within Calix including hardware engineering, software development and test, manufacturing test, customer service and technical assistance.

Responsibilities

Establish base hardware-software system requirements. Collecting from source authors or in some cases authoring the requirements. Reverse engineering software to establish designed functionality.

Determine rank ordered backlog of highest value functional areas to test first.

Determine necessary equipment and compile a fixed asset plan.

Coordinate with other organizations within Calix to share resources when appropriate.

Establish the test plans including white box techniques to stimulate software response.

Contribute to the bring up of new hardware designs.

Build or contract to build custom test hardware.

Build or contract to build automated, scripted test environments.

Contribute to overall company regression test capability.

Utilize access to live deployed product to gather system operational data.

Execute test plans for all hardware in scope.

Generate and track bugs as a result of test plan failures.

Qualifications

10+ years of software/hardware design and test experience.

BSEE, BSCS or related degree, MS preferred

Linux expertise

Embedded systems experience

Experience building software tools and test scripts in C/Python, whatever is most appropriate to the task

Proficient with gnu tool chain and Software Configuration Management tools such as Git

Proficient with the Atlassian tool suite

Knowledge of test debugging and test validation

Excellent analytical and integration skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skill

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