Principal Automation Engineer
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Senior Quality Automation Engineer – Firmware
Samsara
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $126,140 - $212,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Distributed SystemsPandasSDLCSQL
About the role
- Champion automation frameworks and collaborate with engineering teams to design APIs that prioritize automation from the start, within a close-knit Firmware Quality.
- Partner with your QE Lead/Manager, Engineering, and Automation framework teams to define quality goals, expand test coverage, and focus on an automation-first strategy.
- Focus on automation of new features & existing regression test cases to minimize regression cycle time & improve overall quality of product.
- Build & execute automation tests simulating real-world scenarios to find defects & regressions, triage with relevant stakeholders, and publish detailed dashboards/reports.
- Develop an automation strategy to facilitate testing activities throughout Samsara product life cycles. Integrate hardware infrastructure for simulation, hardware validation, and product development.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
- At least five years of experience in developing automated test frameworks and software tools for product development and validation.
- Strong understanding of test system architectures and understands build, release test pipeline within SDLC.
- Understanding of embedded or distributed systems.
- Experience in setting up automated test environments and building test beds with physical hardware.
- Demonstrated proficiency in debugging, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams with diverse backgrounds.
- Built or worked on customer shipping software (ideal candidate).
- Familiarity with testing devices that use wireless protocols such as BLE, WiFi, LTE, and GNSS (ideal candidate).
- Proven experience in defining test plans, triaging test failures, and reporting results and relevant metrics (ideal candidate).
- Has worked on designing and developing hardware infrastructure for testing applications (ideal candidate).
- Has worked with data analysis tools and packages, including SQL, Pandas, Databricks, and others (ideal candidate).
- Hands-on experience with test instrumentation, including power supplies, power analyzers, battery simulators, call boxes, and GPS simulators (ideal candidate).
Benefits
- Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working
- health benefits
- much, much more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
automated test frameworkssoftware tools for product developmenttest system architecturesembedded systemsautomated test environmentsdebuggingtroubleshootingroot cause analysistest plansdata analysis
Soft skills
communication skillscollaborationproblem-solvingleadership
