Job Description
Job DescriptionJob Title: Device-Side Software QA Engineer
Experience: Strong hands-on experience in device-side or embedded software testing
Job Type: Full time
Location: Cupertino, CA (Onsite Day 1)
Job Overview:
We are looking for an experienced QA Engineer with strong expertise in validating lower-level software across mobile and embedded device platforms. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience testing operating system services, frameworks, middleware, device drivers, firmware interfaces, and hardware-software interactions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and execute system-level test cases for device software, drivers, firmware interfaces, and platform components.
- Validate functionality, stability, reliability, performance, power, boot, recovery, and software upgrades.
- Analyze device logs, crash dumps, stack traces, kernel logs, and system traces to identify root causes.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across OS, framework, middleware, firmware, and hardware layers.
- Perform defect triage, regression testing, release qualification, and production issue investigation.
- Collaborate with development, firmware, hardware, and automation teams to resolve defects.
- Develop Python, Shell, or Bash scripts for log collection, diagnostics, and test automation.
Must-Have Skills:
- Hands-on experience in device-side, embedded, or system software QA below the application layer.
- Strong debugging, log analysis, crash analysis, and root cause investigation skills.
- Knowledge of OS concepts, processes, threads, memory, IPC, file systems, boot flows, and system services.
- Experience testing frameworks, middleware, HAL, device drivers, firmware interfaces, kernel modules, connectivity, multimedia, power, sensors, or security subsystems.
- Experience creating test cases from technical requirements and architecture specifications.
- Working knowledge of Python, Shell, or Bash scripting.
Preferred Experience:
Candidates with experience in mobile OEMs, consumer electronics, silicon, chipset, or embedded product validation environments such as Apple, Samsung, Google, Qualcomm, MediaTek, or similar organizations are preferred.
Have a Great Day!
Warm Regards,
Sania Wadhwa
Technical Recruiter
Contact Details: 609-755-5388
Email: sania@applabsystems.com
4365 Route 1 South, Suite 105
Princeton, NJ 08540
www.applabsystems.com