Hardware at TRACTIAN
The Hardware team is responsible for designing and improving our IoT devices, dealing with every step of the development process, ranging from PCB design, firmware programming, case design, validations and certifications, always aiming to build trustworthy products that can be produced at a mass scale.
What you'll do
As a Firmware QA Analyst, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality, functionality, and reliability of our software products. A critical component of your role will involve the meticulous and thorough documentation of the test process. Your expertise in quality assurance processes and methodologies will be essential in driving our commitment to delivering exceptional software solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) process, ensuring efficient and automated delivery of firmware products.
- Develop unit test scripts to verify the functionality and integrity of individual components or modules within the firmware system.
- Create test automation scripts to automate the execution of test cases and ensure comprehensive test coverage for the firmware product.
- Document test methodologies, including test strategies, test plans, and test cases, to provide clear guidelines for the testing process and ensure consistent and effective testing practices.
- Collaborate with the development team to incorporate automated testing into the firmware development lifecycle, enabling frequent and reliable testing of new features and code changes.
- Collaborate with the QA team to identify and address any gaps or issues in the testing process, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of high-quality firmware products.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
- Minimum of 1 years experience working with electronics.
- Familiarity with data acquisition, data processing, and data logging for testing purposes.
- Familiarity with software development tools, such as: VSCode, and GitHub.
- Experience with scripting languages, like Python and MATLAB.
- Familiarity with C programming language.
- Experience with laboratory equipment, such as oscilloscopes, DAQs, multimeters, and power supplies.
- Intermediary or better English proficiency.
Bonus Points
- Familiarity with test implementations in a TDD or BDD environment.
- Familiarity with C++ programming language.
- Experience with firmware concepts, like RTOS, HAL, and other drivers.
- Experience with GitHub Actions, for CI/CD implementations.
- Excellent analytical skills.
Top Skills
What We Do
Tractian is a machine intelligence company that offers industrial monitoring systems. Tractian builds streamlined hardware-software solutions to give maintenance technicians and industrial decision-makers comprehensive oversight of their operations. It is democratizing access to sophisticated real-time monitoring and asset operations tools.
Tractian's solutions are used in environments that address a combined total of 5% of global industrial output. The company’s broad market reach is evidenced in its customer base from various industries, such as John Deere, Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Goodyear, Carrier, Johnson Controls, and Bimbo, the owner of the brands Little Bites and Thomas Bagels. Tractian's customers see a 6-12x ROI with savings of $6,000 per monitored machine annually on average.
In a major milestone and a first for the industry, Tractian launched the AI-Assisted Maintenance category in the industrial sector. In this new paradigm, artificial intelligence identifies machine problems and suggests preventive actions to be taken, giving invaluable insight and support to maintenance professionals. It is important to highlight that the intent of Assisted Maintenance is firmly rooted in augmenting maintenance professionals to provide more assertive diagnosis with human-in-the-loop feedback.
Tractian's mission is to elevate this category of workers in a highly impactful way. The Assisted Maintenance category will provide unimaginable support for maintenance professionals. By combining shop floor expertise with our technology, maintainers will be able to anticipate and address issues with unprecedented accuracy and speed
