Firmware QA Analyst

**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)

y8DntXXySi