Toptal: Senior Firmware QA Engineer

You’ll be part of a European engineering workforce to personal finish to finish firmware QA and take a look at automation for a large-scale wearable ecosystem (trackers, sensible stations, equipment). This position is arms on within the lab, working with oscilloscopes, networked gadgets, and manufacturing companions to maintain hundreds of gadgets operating reliably within the discipline.

Duties and deliverables:

• Develop and keep automated take a look at suites for firmware utilizing Robotic Framework and Python, and ideally C++.
• Design, implement, and execute take a look at plans for firmware releases on wearables and sensible stations.
• Work arms on within the lab with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, energy provides, community analyzers, and different take a look at tools to validate and debug conduct.
• Confirm communication and community protocol conduct (for instance Wi Fi, Bluetooth and different related wi-fi protocols) throughout gadgets and infrastructure (similar to MQTT servers).
• Construct automated take a look at harnesses that run in CI pipelines to validate new firmware and {hardware} revisions.
• Collaborate with manufacturing groups (primarily in Hungary) to qualify new builds, enhance take a look at protection, and refine manufacturing take a look at processes.
• Analyze failures from manufacturing and inside testing, decide whether or not points are firmware, {hardware}, or take a look at associated, and drive root trigger evaluation to closure.
• Create and keep take a look at documentation, together with take a look at circumstances, take a look at stories, and protection metrics.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines (for instance GitHub Actions, Docker primarily based workflows) to make sure dependable and repeatable firmware validation.
• Present clear, knowledge primarily based suggestions to firmware, {hardware}, and manufacturing stakeholders and take part in launch go/no go choices.

Common Info:

• Position: Senior Firmware QA Engineer (Wearables / Embedded)
• Location: Den Bosch, Netherlands (hybrid, 2–3 days per week onsite within the lab)
• Dedication: Full time contractor
• Period: Anticipated 6–12 months (realistically nearer to 12 months)
• Timezone: Central European (CET) with commonplace overlap with European working hours
• Work model: Shut collaboration with firmware, {hardware}, and manufacturing groups (Netherlands and Hungary)

• 5+ years of expertise in firmware or embedded QA engineering for {hardware} primarily based merchandise.
• Robust understanding of embedded techniques, microcontrollers, and the way firmware interacts with {hardware}.
• Palms on expertise with lab tools similar to oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, energy measurement instruments, and protocol analyzers.
• Confirmed expertise constructing and sustaining take a look at automation utilizing Robotic Framework and Python; publicity to C++ for instruments or take a look at harnesses is a powerful plus.
• Snug engaged on and testing embedded Linux or related platforms; Raspberry Pi or related single board platforms is a plus.
• Familiarity with community and wi-fi protocols utilized in related gadgets (for instance Wi Fi, Bluetooth, MQTT, TCP/IP).
• Expertise integrating automated exams into CI/CD pipelines (for instance GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker).
• Earlier collaboration with manufacturing or industrial take a look at groups, ideally for top quantity merchandise.
• Robust downside fixing mindset, in a position to transfer between firmware, {hardware}, and infrastructure when investigating points.
• Stable model management observe with Git and fashionable branching / assessment workflows.
• Glorious communication abilities in English, in a position to work cross functionally with distributed groups; Dutch is a plus however not required.