Lead Software Test Engineer, Safety Critical Embedded Systems

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Set the verification and validation approach for safety critical embedded software from kickoff through qualification, including the test plan, test procedures, results, and reports.
• Turn system, software, and safety related requirements into practical tests with objective pass or fail criteria.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, tests, results, and anomalies.
• Build and maintain automated test frameworks for embedded software, including software in the loop and hardware in the loop environments.
• Exercise failure behavior through fault injection, timing and jitter tests, communications failures, memory faults, power and clock faults, negative tests, boundary tests, and stress tests.
• Use static analysis, dynamic analysis, and coverage results to find gaps and help the team close them.
• Prepare and maintain test evidence, including plans, procedures, results, V&V matrices, compliance matrices, anomaly records, tool qualification records, and contributions to the safety case.
• Work with software, systems, and safety engineers to review designs for testability, improve requirements, and support technical reviews and assessments.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Equivalent experience may be considered.
• Five or more years of experience testing embedded systems or safety critical software.
• Strong working knowledge of C or C++ and Python for test automation.
• Experience working with requirements management and requirements traceability using tools such as Jama or DOORS.
• Familiarity with MISRA C or MISRA C++, static analysis, and structural coverage methods such as branch coverage and MC/DC.
• Experience testing software on an RTOS such as QNX, including work with embedded targets, debuggers, and instrumentation.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to separate hardware, software, and firmware problems in a complex system.
• A practical, organized approach to managing several priorities and producing clear technical documentation.