Software Quality Assurance Engineer II - Zero Motorcycles Inc.

Summary of Position:

Zero Motorcycles is currently looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer. We are looking for an individual to join our design engineering team who will bring a strong focus of quality, verification, and regression testing to our SDLC methodology. This individual will work within a team of electrical and mechanical engineers to test cutting edge electric motorcycles and all the systems that make these vehicles perform safely, predictably, and with performance that excites users. This individual will play a key role in testing our embedded systems firmware, interfaces to the motorcycle, supporting accessories, legacy code, and automated regression systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive validation of high quality, high performance, and production ready software
• Utilize Hybrid development methodology and know when to get out of the way
• Ensure quality, from low level software to the end applications
• Support manufacturing by verifying fixture software or any software used during production.
• Validate software in simulation and on vehicle
• Define test methods and create test plans for new or updated motorcycle and powertrain firmware projects to determine if the software will perform accurately and reliably according to documented requirements as well as established standards under both normal and abnormal conditions.
• Recommend design improvements or corrections to engineers throughout the development process.
• Maintain effective communication with the project software engineers on project limitation, capability, performance requirement and hardware interface changes.

Required Education/Experience:

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience

• 2+ years industry experience in Quality Assurance

• Test/Automation and UI validation tools experience (e.g. Robot, Appium or similar automation frameworks)

• Experience with one or more of the following: C, Python, Perl or Shell

• Identify, reproduce and isolate bugs and drive the issues to completion

• Working knowledge of test methodologies, processes, and tools (e.g. JIRA, STLC, TestRails, GIT, Jenkins)

• Skilled in integrating project testing with Continuous Integration process (CI/CD)

• Experience with development of automotive or mobile products

Skills and Attributes

• Proven working experience in software quality assurance or software development.
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test reports
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Experience testing Firmware, Desktop, Web and Mobile apps
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Knowledge of Linux and Windows systems administration and programming
• Understands designing and coding for testability to produce quality code

• Mobility devices, EV systems, or battery-operated device experience preferred

Physical and Sensory Requirements:

Candidate must be able to sit for long periods of time to perform duties, and to move around and make inquiries from other staff, management as needed.

Must be able to bend or stoop down to access files, including lifting of items or objects up to 50 lbs.

Other Requirements (if applicable)

M1 Licensed motorcycle rider a plus