Senior QA Engineer – IoT, Embedded, Cloud

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Develop end-to-end (E2E) test coverage across firmware, cloud, and mobile applications to validate device state, data consistency, and overall functionality.

• Evaluate device-to-cloud communication, taking into account network failures, reconnections, timeouts, offline operation, as well as OTA update and rollback scenarios.

• Assess cloud and local APIs, business logic, data validation, and error handling to guarantee dependable behavior across integration scenarios.

• Review device and cloud logs to troubleshoot issues, confirm command execution, and detect anomalies throughout system components.

• Create test data and configuration strategies tailored for various device types, users, environments, and intricate scenarios involving multiple devices.

• Recognize and prioritize E2E scenarios for automation, outline test specifications for automation engineers, and uphold stable smoke and regression testing procedures.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive QA experience with complex software products and the capability to design test coverage across firmware, backend APIs, and mobile applications.

• Strong skills in requirements analysis and systems thinking, with the ability to pinpoint dependencies and integration points among devices, cloud services, and applications.

• Practical experience in testing REST or gRPC APIs utilizing tools such as Postman, Swagger, or pre-existing automated tests.

• Background in analyzing device logs like UART or syslog, as well as cloud logs through tools such as Kibana or Sentry, alongside a fundamental understanding of embedded systems architecture.

• Experience in testing native or cross-platform mobile applications that engage with devices via BLE or Wi-Fi and cloud services.

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum environments, constructing QA processes, managing test artifacts in platforms like Jira, Confluence, TestRail, Qase, or TestOps, and defining scenarios for test automation.

• Proficiency in English sufficient for comprehending technical documentation and engaging with an international team.

• Nice-to-haves: Experience with testing IoT or smart devices, including OTA updates, connectivity loss and recovery, and offline operations.

• Nice-to-haves: Basic skills in Python or JavaScript for developing simple test utilities, generating test data, parsing logs, or interpreting automated tests.

• Nice-to-haves: Experience with device simulators or emulators, network traffic analysis tools such as Wireshark or tcpdump, or security testing of device-to-cloud integrations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Choose your work format: office, hybrid, or fully remote from any location around the globe.

• All necessary equipment will be provided to ensure a comfortable working environment.

• Benefits include VHI, corporate sports, foreign language courses, and therapy sessions.

• A five-day workweek with a flexible start time for the workday.