Embedded QA Engineer
Location: High Wycombe /Hybrid
Term: Permanent, Full Time
Salary: Dependent on experience + excellent benefits
Are you an Embedded QA Engineer looking to join an innovative team with a passion for creating audio products in applications including live music performance, studio recording and education?
The Role:
You will be responsible for delivering intuitive and scalable testing solutions that support the development of our audio interfaces, synthesisers and controllers. Working within a project team, you will take ownership of QA activities within the team combining both manual and automated testing. This will include design test strategy and writing both manual and automated test scripts.
Project work is typically managed in a combination of stage-gated and agile methodologies to suite the technical discipline and project complexity. Focusrite is committed to improving and you will have opportunity to help evolve our working practices to keep up to date with technology trends in our product sector and best practice in the software development industry.
To be successful in your application for this role you will need:
- Familiar with test approaches for hardware, embedded software, and device drivers
- Experience creating test plans, test strategies and writing test cases
- Python coding experience
- An understanding of automation best practice and architectural principles
- Excellent design, debugging and problem-solving abilities
- The ability to clearly articulate problems and solutions for both technical and non-technical audiences
- A commitment to continual personal development, as well as improvement of the wider team
It would be advantageous if you have some of the following:
- A technical or engineering-based qualification
- Experience with testing audio products
- Experience writing automation frameworks for hardware and embedded software
- CI/CD configuration, implementation and maintenance experience (GitHub Actions, Artifactory)
- Test driven development (TDD); unit, integration, automated and system testing experience
- Understanding of code managements systems
- Experience of working using Agile methodologies such as Scrum
- Background in audio electronics and music technology
About Us
Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.
The Focusrite Group trades under thirteen established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.
Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.
The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.
Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.
Top Skills
What We Do
We’ll be honest – Focusrite is a pretty great place to work. Incorporating both the Focusrite and Novation brands, we make music easy to make, from bedroom DJs to the greatest show on earth. Everyone who works here has an enormous passion for music: as it says on our website, sound is everything. We take that very seriously – though we have a lot of fun doing it. As the number one selling audio interface brand worldwide, Focusrite has an illustrious, prestigious, and, let’s face it, cool history. Alongside Novation, the hardware and software that we develop plays an instrumental (see what we did there?) role in shaping the sound of modern music. From amateur to pro, our goal is to help musicians to make their music the very best it can be. Music has always been an exciting thing to be involved with, and that’s not about to change. We embrace its evolution, and that means being open to new ideas. Our whole business is structured to let everyone contribute and be heard at all levels, and we make sure it’s a fun place to work. Company hack-days, external visits – we’re all about innovation, fresh thinking and great, great products. (Plus, you get a free lunch in the canteen. No really.) We work hard. We are professional. We select really, really talented people. And we absolutely love our work. So if you think you can bring something new to the mix, we’ll be looking forward to hearing from you.
