QA Automation Engineer (Fixed Term)

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 120,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

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About the Role: 

We are looking for a fixed term Embedded QA Automation Engineer who will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our embedded AG products. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in testing and quality assurance of hardware and software integration, and a deep understanding of embedded systems. We are looking for candidates with a strong Electrical Engineering or Computer Science background, who are natural team players to act as a key part of the QA team in testing our ELD (Electronic Logging Device, an in-vehicle data acquisition system) and non-ELD integrated software features.

What You’ll Do: 

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for embedded systems.
• Designs, implements & maintains functional testing and delivers quality features.
• Perform manual and automated testing to identify defects and ensure compliance with project requirements.
• Collaborate with the development team to understand system requirements and provide input during the design phase.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks for embedded systems.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues in embedded systems and provide detailed bug reports.
• Perform system integration and regression testing to ensure the stability and performance of embedded products.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in embedded systems.
• Document test procedures and maintain comprehensive test documentation.

What We’re Looking For: 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of proven experience as an Embedded QA Engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of embedded systems and hardware-software integration.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and QA testing life cycles
• Experience with bugs reporting and tracking tools (JIRA preferable)
• Experience of working on Mobile/Web integration testing with Embedded Systems.
• Proficiency in testing tools and methodologies, including automated testing.
• Experience with scripting and programming languages such as C/C++, Python, and Structured query language (SQL)
• Familiarity with hardware interfaces, communication protocols, and debugging tools.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration and teamwork skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Important: This position is required to be in office at our Buffalo, New York location. Relocation is not supported at this time. The pay range is $25-30/hour and due to it being a fixed term contract, there are no full time benefits.

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