CPU Software Test Engineer - Senior/Lead

Overview

Design, develop and validate embedded and cloud edge software, with a focus on software and firmware test automation for server platforms and quality of Qualcomm products.

What you'll do

• Create software/firmware test plans, addressing requirements traceability matrix and test coverage, with respect to feature requirements.
• Design, develop, execute and maintain automated software/firmware test suites to verify quality and compliance of Qualcomm products at functional, integration and system levels.
• Manually test, where appropriate, the customer experience of installation and deployment of Qualcomm hardware and software in mobile, compute and automotive environments.
• Assist in the creation of a Quality Engineering/Release engineering process with emphasis on continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Assist in achieving production-level software readiness, implement customer use-cases, workload analysis models and workload creation, and collaborate with other teams on bring-up/debug/diags.
• Ensure existing Operating Systems and customer usage environments run well, identifying opportunities for enhancements from a power and performance perspective.
• Leverage advanced software knowledge to design, develop, create, modify and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications and/or specialized utility programs.
• Analyze user needs, software requirements, and time and cost constraints to design and customize software for optimal operational efficiency.
• Design and implement software modules for large-scale products and systems.
• Participate in and lead design, coding, unit testing, debugging and integration efforts to ensure projects are completed to specifications and schedules.
• Perform complex code reviews and regression tests, and triage and fix issues to ensure code quality.
• Collaborate with individuals outside the software function (e.g., Hardware, Systems and Test engineers) to ensure solutions work with other components of a project.
• Write detailed technical documentation for complex software projects.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• 8+ years of experience in Software/Firmware Validation.
• Demonstrated software test engineering in SW/FW engineering with focus on Data Center Servers (minimum 5 years).
• Strong understanding and experience in software/firmware test automation techniques.
• Extensive experience working with operating systems like Ubuntu Server, RHEL, SUSE, similar or Windows Server.
• Work with multiple SW/HW Engineering teams to ensure that all requirements and features of reference platform requirements have been validated at component, integration, functional and system levels.
• Strong programming skills with experience in C and/or Python.
• Experience developing automated software/firmware test cases for server platforms, supporting bring-up and production SW releases.

Nice to have

• Prior experience with SW/FW integration at BIOS/UEFI, BMC firmware, Operating System for x86/ARM64/RISC-V 64-bit for server platforms.
• Strong understanding of server firmware standards, open-source implementation and specifications for ARM64-based servers.

Details

• Works independently with minimal supervision and provides guidance to other team members.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills; may require basic negotiation, influence and tact.
• Tasks often require multiple steps performed in various orders, with extensive planning, problem-solving and prioritization.