Senior QA Engineer

Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) is the leading innovator in low-power wireless connectivity, building embedded technology that connects devices and improves lives. Merging cutting-edge technology into the world’s most highly integrated SoCs, Silicon Labs provides device makers the solutions, support, and ecosystems needed to create advanced edge connectivity applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Silicon Labs has operations in over 16 countries and is the trusted partner for innovative solutions in the smart home, industrial IoT, and smart cities markets. Learn more at www.silabs.com.

More About Silicon Labs

We hire the most innovative talent in the world to solve the industry’s toughest problems, providing our customers with significant advantages in performance, energy savings, connectivity and design simplicity. Silicon Labs’ software and mixed signal engineering teams create solutions for customers in diverse markets including the Internet of Things, (IoT), internet infrastructure, TV tuners, as well as automotive and consumer radios. Our solutions are in products from the market leaders in home automation, electric vehicles, green technology, smart TVs and home voice control automation. We take pride in our products and in our people, and that’s one of the many reasons we continue to be awarded Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company.

The Role

Silicon Labs is looking for a Software (SW) Developer in Test to plan, develop, debug and automate test scripts to improve the overall quality of the Radio Abstraction Interface Layer (RAIL). This layer abstracts complex radio functionality from the networking stacks above it to improve usability and allow for quicker adoption of each radio platform. Since all of the Silicon Labs wireless protocols utilize RAIL, this product provides the foundation of all products utilizing Silicon Labs Gecko SDK SW Product. Most of our customers are focused on building Internet of Things (IoT) products (smart homes, smart metering, smart cities). You will be the primary SW Developer in Test responsible for providing test coverage on each RAIL feature as well as maintain build-to-build quality and consistency. The ideal candidate has experience with Radio architectures and understands different PHY Layers. In addition, you should have experience working with embedded SW and Firmware used to control MCU peripherals. You will frequently interact with the SW Development Team based in Boston, and Austin and other SQA groups globally.. In addition, the ideal candidate shall be proficient in C, Java, and Python. We are looking for creative, flexible, pragmatic, and skilled individuals with superb communications skills and a love of problem solving in a fast-paced team environment.

How The SQA Team Works

The Silicon Labs SQA team is a tight group of software professionals, with a broad understanding of Continuous Integration testing initiatives in wireless networks and a passion for innovation, quality, and providing business value through technology. We care about the business we support and take pride in the technology services we deliver and go the extra mile to “Do the Right Thing” for Silicon Labs and its customers. Members of our team appreciate that we are greater than the sum of our parts.

The IoT SQA Team's Responsibilities

The IOT Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Team at Silicon Labs which is spread across several different geographical locations, focuses on improving the overall quality of the Silicon Labs Gecko SDK Product. The Gecko SDK products contain all the wireless (Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Bluetooth Mesh, Zigbee, OpenThread, Wi-Sun, Z-Wave, and proprietary protocols) and 32 bit micro-controller (MCU) software required to build end products for the Internet of Things (IoT) Market. Silicon Lab’s SQA Team works closely with the Software (SW) Development teams to ensure a deep understanding of the product, features and system functionality. Silicon Lab’s SQA Team utilize an internal test framework to automate all tests for repeatability and stability along with providing detailed test reports on each build of the product to provide our customers with quality assurance. The SQA team has decades of experience in providing high quality embedded SW products to our customers which include the largest names in the industry.

Challenges you will solve:

Design and execute functional, negative, performance, and stress tests for Silicon Lab’s embedded wireless and MCU products. Work closely with development team(s) to debug problems found during the test cycle Develop efficient and stable automation tests so they can be run regularly as part of a continuous integration infrastructure Assist in resolving customer issues by working closely with the customer support team to answer and reproduce customer-related issues Emulates customer environments by working closely with the sales team and field application engineers in supporting customer’s needs and debug customer’s problems Build, manage, and maintain a distributed test network Simplification and automation of product deployments and platform changes Productivity increase of the team through identifying opportunities to automate and script daily tasks and eliminate waste in existing processes

Technologies we use: Java, Junit, Python, Jenkins, Docker, Cloud Based Computing, SQL Database, Windows, Linux, Shell, Bash, GIT

Responsibilities

Implement test cases based on test plans.

Investigate test results in continuous integration systems.

Write custom embedded applications.

Skills Required

3+ years of work experience or Master Degree +2 years experience as a SW Developer or SW Developer in Test

Experience in wireless radio transmission fundamentals

Experience with C, Java, and scripting languages such as Perl or Python. Experience with continuous integration techniques, Jenkins experience is preferred.

Experience with leading a small technical team is considered a bonus Communicate well and work well in a small cross-functional team

Conversation fluency in English

We Consider The Following Experience As a Plus

Experience with leading a small technical team is considered a bonus

Able to multitask and able to come up to speed with new technology quickly Conversation fluency in French considered a bonus.

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.