Firmware QA Analyst

Miovision is a global industry leading company providing agencies and organizations modern tools to improve today’s traffic problems. We offer solutions that collect multimodal traffic data and uncover actionable insights, helping organizations get more out of their road network. The result: streets capable of moving more people – safely and efficiently – whether they are in a car, on a bus, on a bike or e-scooter, or walking. Since 2005, our systems have counted or assisted more than thirty billion vehicles around the world. With global headquarters in Kitchener, Canada, as well as operations in Germany, Serbia and the United States. For more information, visit miovision.com.
Position Summary
We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about quality, and who can handle a fast-paced, rapid delivery environment, to help with our mission. Firmware QA Analyst is a hands-on role focused on ensuring the quality of our state-of-the-art traffic operations products. You’ll work closely with the development team and the QA lead to validate releases and advance our testing processes. This Role will be a hybrid role with some work from home and some in office, based out of our Kitchener, Ontario headquarters.

Initiative and autonomy are key skills at Miovision. On a given day you might examine requirements for upcoming features, exercise changes in a pre-prod environment, perform exploratory testing, or search out how to reproduce a customer-facing issue. The person we’re looking for won’t wait for tasks to be assigned,and does not shy away from interfacing with multiple teams.

If you are someone who has a high interest in learning on the job, multiple years of experience with Firmware/software testing practices, comfortable writing test cases, a comfort level testing with and around hardware devices, and enjoys working embedded on a collaborative and fun team, you might be the right person for the job.

Key Accountabilities

• Hands on automated testing of products to ensure that they meet our functional and quality standards
• Development of automated and manual test cases, testing best practices, verification planning and test configurations
• Enable fast iteration through build, test, and deployment
• Influence the future by proposing new testing processes
• Review requirements and provide meaningful feedback from initial design phase to production

Skills/Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in firmware/software QA
• Ability to debug failed test cases and help narrow down where the bug resides (eg: hardware, firmware, software)
• Experience and a comfortable working with hardware devices
• Ensuring functionality and quality standards are met
• Experience with Linux and Python
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Experience writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Experience identifying, recording, documenting and tracking bugs
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Tenacious and inquisitive; ability to solve open-ended problems
• Ability to communicate clearly in written and verbal English

Additional Assets

• Familiarity with Robot framework 
• Familiarity with data analytics and data quality concerns
• Experience with load, performance and/or security testing
• Experience with exploratory testing
• Familiarity with JIRA
• Familiarity with Agile development processes
• Hands-on experience with networking equipment

Perks and Benefits 

Note: We do offer flexible onsite and remote work options. Our Benefits are designed to reflect this and include:

• Comprehensive health benefits starting on day one
• RRSP Matching Plan 
• Variable Incentive Plan 
• Mio-Days: We extend all three-day weekends to four-days and provide a Holiday Shutdown in December
• Virtual Healthcare Service providing employees and their families access to healthcare providers 24/7
• Internet subsidy and a remote work allowance 
• Enhanced paternity and maternity leaves
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Wellness offerings (Fitness, Mindfulness)