Firmware QA developer

at  dcbel Inc

dcbel is a growing startup building next-generation hardware and software for a future lead by electric vehicles (EVs) and distributed energy technologies like solar panels and battery storage.
Our flagship product, dcbel Ara™, is the world’s first all-in-one smart energy appliance sitting at the heart of the modern energy ecosystem. Combining several breakthrough technologies into one elegant package, dcbel Ara™ offers the fastest home EV charging available on the market, allows you to use your EVs massive battery as a backup power source and connects with solar panels to power your EV and home with the free, unlimited power of the sun.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelors’ degree in Engineering from top tier university, ideally a dual diploma in both Electrical and Software engineering or the equivalent.
• 3 to 5 years of experience with automated test frameworks (pytest, robot framework, xUnit, Lava, etc.).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines as applied to embedded systems.
• Demonstrated experience delivering consumer products involving custom-made hardware components.
• Recent experience with Azure DevOps and/or Jira.

BONUS SKILLS

• Familiarity with industrial/embedded busses, (CAN, modbus, rs-232, ethernet).
• Familiarity with commands in controlling programmable test and measurement devices (SCPI).
• Familiarity with residential electrical installations, EV charging protocols and solar energy are all plusses.
• Knowledge of system safety and regulatory standards.
• Knowledge of requirements management tools, problem tracking tools, configuration management tools and test management tools (XRAY, R4J, JIRA, …).
• Bilingual English and French.

• Manage and participate in the development of test plans; writing tests procedures, executing tests, writing test reports, and creating/tracking software problem reports.
• Identify and implement improvements in test coverage, cycle time reduction, scalability, and overall quality.
• Participation in formal software qualification or certification activities with third party and/or governmental standards.
• Architect and implement an automated test infrastructure for embedded systems.
• Ensure the correct ongoing functionality of the developed infrastructure.
• Write functional tests leveraging the architected infrastructure.
• Perform release management for the firmware/OS team.