Software Verification Engineer

Job Title: Software Verification Engineer
Location: North Reading, MA / Agoura Hills, CA
Duration: 12 months contract
Payrate: $70 to $85 per hour.

Job Description:
The Quality Engineering (QE) Team is responsible for assessing quality at all states of the Software Development Life Cycle so that client maintains its quality leadership in the Automated Test Equipment (ATE) industry.
The Software Quality Engineer is an integral member of the QE team, using and developing automated tests for their flagship software products, as well as working with various in-house tools and industry leading digital and analog hardware.
The client Quality Engineering team is looking for a highly motivated, energetic, software engineer who will work collaboratively with the test and development teams as well as independently to determine and develop imaginative, thorough, and practical testing solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing system, hardware, software and user interface requirements documentation
• Planning, designing, creating, executing, and automating tests focused on proving our products meet stringent requirements
• System and user-focused testing that extends beyond the written requirements of the product
• Enhancing in-house tools to make test creation more efficient and effective.
• Managing defects in the defect tracking database to report, track, manage, and resolve issues found during product verification.
• Interacts with software and hardware engineering teams, working closely with Software Development Engineering to prepare and continually manage a test strategy for defect assessment, peer reviews, test coverage analysis, and various levels of system integration tests.
• Participate in customer account, engineering, Applications, and Marketing teams to understand key business and technical requirements.
• Analyze problems and recommend solutions on client ATE platform to optimize customer throughput and performance
• Work directly with test engineering customers to understand and improve test process; making recommendations to improve quality of test coverage.
• Develop shared knowledge in the form of application solutions and test techniques.
• This position may require some amount of travel (10 - 25%) to customer sites to support beta testing and transition teams.

Must Have:

• BSEE/BSCS/BS Electrical Engineer, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience in ATE-based test environments.
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC).
• Programming with C/C++, C# and VBA/VB.NET/Excel.
• Other experience with scripting languages such as Perl or Python.
• Experience using MS Visual Studio, github, JIRA, and other SW Development related tools.
• Solid understanding of embedded systems, digital, mixed-signal, SoC. power, and/or analog hardware test methodologies.
• Hardware/Software interaction in tester environments.
• Exposure to pre-silicon / post-silicon validation flows.
• Experience testing and/or developing test applications for semiconductors.
• Effective written and verbal communications skills in English.
• Able to work in an international, multi-site, dynamic and diverse team-oriented environment
• 5+ years of test/product engineering experience in analog, digital and mixed signal testing with strong background in test design and development.
• Any direct experience with ATE equipment is highly desired.