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Apple Firmware Quality Engineer India, Gujarat, Ahmedabad 130612814
01.06.2024
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Description
Core responsibilities include: - Understanding microcontroller based embedded systems, including algorithms - Partnering with a development team to quickly understand an architecture, break it into functional parts, come up with a plan to test/validate, and identify and target weaknesses - Crafting creative ways to exercise embedded subsystems, communication protocols (SPI, I2C, etc) and high-level features of embedded devices - Devising and building test fixtures, building tools and authoring automated scripts - Carrying out manual and automated test plans on early prototypes, typically at the “grey box” level - Helping to craft quality from a very early stage, ushering the product from early prototype to production - Documentation of test cases and code used for test execution - Coming up with ideas for custom tools and methods to exercise firmware features - Supervising performance, reporting results to management, driving issues to closure
Key Qualifications
- An excellent candidate will:
- Have a real passion for quality, enjoy breaking things through creative testing
- Thrive in uncertain, early prototype stages of a project when not all features are working yet, and enjoy putting energy into identifying/classifying issues as a way to improve quality
- Strive to innovate and try new things, incorporating continuous improvement of testing methods
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Education & Experience
BS or MS in Computer Science /Computer Engineering /Electrical & Electronics Engineering or related degrees 2+ years’ experience with embedded systems, microcontrollers and sensors.
Additional Requirements
- Helpful/Useful experience:
- - Experience writing and/or testing firmware, building embedded systems
- - Knowledge of Mac systems and MacOS/iOS or UNIX variant
- - Track record of shipping phenomenal consumer products
- - Testing automation using Python or similar
- - Use of hardware debugging tools – USB and Bluetooth CATC, protocol analyzer, logic analyzer, oscilloscope
- - Familiarity with C/C++ or object-oriented programming
- - Test tool development
- - Continuous integration systems
- - Algorithm analysis and validation
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