Permanent Software Tester - Cambridge
- 1. Good Afternoon, I came across your CV today and wanted to email you in regards to an available permanent position I have. Please find the details below: The role of the Test Engineer, Software is to test software for my clients range of wireless chips. This may be either embedded software running on the on-chip processors or associated software running on a host processor. An engineer will take ownership of the testing of certain aspects of a project and will be responsible for delivering the software test results on a timescale agreed with the group leader. Mentoring will provided from more experienced engineers. Tasks will be well defined and the engineer is expected to work with moderate supervision. Key Responsibilities · Coordination of conformance testing effort, including liaising with multi-site development and conformance teams, test and test infrastructure development, customer support, equipment supplier liaison, and standards contribution · Qualification and conformance testing of Bluetooth firmware, including Bluetooth zero-day qualification to newly-adopted Bluetooth Core specification releases · Maintenance conformance testing to legacy Bluetooth specification releases · Bluetooth Test and Interoperability Working Group participation and contribution · Maintenance of company Bluetooth internal qualification test capability accreditation, including system verification and validation, and system upgrades as required. · Investigates software defects and suggest root cause to development engineers; · Delivery of high quality software test results in line with the department’s processes; · Creation of relevant documentation following the department’s processes; · Contribute towards the continuous development of the department’s processes; · Conducts peer reviews of software test results; Person Specification - Required · Degree (or equivalent qualification) in maths/science/software/electronics · Excellent proven experience of at least one scripting/programming language · Excellent proven understanding of software test methodologies · Proven experience of testing commercial software · Good understanding of software test debug techniques · Effective team player · Good communicator Good problem solving ability
- 2. Person Specification - Desired · Some experience of software development · Experience of wireless communication protocols such as Bluetooth, UWB or Wi-Fi Competent with using laboratory equipment such as scopes, digital multimeters, etc For more information, please call Giles on 01392 666060. To apply for the role, please email a copy of your CV to gj@waconsultants.com