Staff Test Automation Engineer at Avive Solutions – Brisbane, California

Staff Test Automation Engineer

About Avive:
Avive Solutions, Inc. (https://avive.life) is a growth stage Automated External Defibrillator (AED) company with a connected response system that is rapidly gaining market share. We are a mission driven team that is quite literally saving lives. Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death in the United States, and we are on a mission to change that! We are a dynamic organization that builds elegant, creative solutions to solve complex problems. Ultimately, our mission is for all cardiac arrest victims to have rapid access to life-saving defibrillation.
Avive is taking a fresh approach to addressing this decades-old problem by innovating AED technology, coupled with a first-of-its-kind software platform solution to enable a quicker and more streamlined response to SCA emergencies. We believe that this unique combination of deploying advanced yet still accessible hardware, and software, has the potential to revolutionize out-of-hospital cardiac arrest response and massively impact SCA survival rates.
Check out this short video that shows a glimpse of how our team is working to re-think cardiac arrest response and save lives! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p4zfOWo62E
Learn more about working at Avive: https://avive.life/careers/

About the Role:
This position plays a critical role in the testing of Avives embedded software from early design stages through commercialization, ensuring that all products comply with internal, regulatory, and customer requirements. Specifically, this position would focus on automating and streamlining our continuous testing process to increase overall efficiency of the test and development teams.What You'll Do:

• Design and implement automation framework with dedicated hardware fixtures using Pytest.
• Lead end-to-end testing between internal and external systems, connected hardware products, cloud-based databases, and applications.
• Create systems and processes that facilitate automated testing over manual test execution.
• Consider and implement a robust CI for running unit and system level tests.
• Triage defects from opening to closure. Find root causes and implement lasting solutions.
• Write and deliver software project documentation, including software architecture documents, IUVs, design verification test plans, test protocols, and test reports.
• Design, develop and test software tools that aid in development and manufacturing.
• Maintain focus on delivering the highest quality product to our customers.
• Work closely with the firmware development team for a deep and nuanced understanding of implementation detail.

Who You Are:

• BS degree holder in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or equivalent combination of relevant coursework and job-related experience.
• Minimum of seven (7) years in a software test position for embedded systems.
• Able to write, debug, and review python for hardware-control libraries and automated tests.
• Experienced in Python, C/C++, ARM CPUs, Embedded Linux.
• Able to design and build automated test systems from basic engineering lab equipment, electronics and firmware design.
• Experienced in guiding teams on best practices for code development
• Experienced in automating wireless networking test protocols - Cellular, BLE, WiFi
• Experienced in managing data using Git and Jira APIs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including technical writing. Good documentation is a must!

Equal Employment OpportunityIt is the policy of the company to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
NOTE: This Job Description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties or functions to be performed by the incumbent. Personnel are required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties/functions requested by their supervisor.
Anticipated salary range: $145,000 - $175,000