Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Role: QA Automation Engineer

Industry: Critical Infrastructure

Location: Ohio (Onsite preferred, relocation assistance offered)

Salary: Competitive

We are partnered with a rapidly growing critical infrastructure company developing complex electrical and electromechanical systems for data centers.

They're looking for a QA Automation Engineer to be the first hire into a brand-new testing function, helping develop and automate testing across their electromechanical systems. It's a hands-on role combining software QA, test automation, embedded systems testing and product validation, with the opportunity to build out testing processes and frameworks from the ground up.

*Candidates must be US Citizens or Green Card holders.

Responsibilities 🔨

• Develop and execute automated test scripts and frameworks across embedded software, firmware and electromechanical systems.
• Perform functional, integration, regression and system-level testing across hardware and software.
• Design and implement automated testing processes to improve product quality, reliability and test coverage.
• Identify, reproduce, debug and document software bugs, hardware faults and system-level issues.
• Test and debug embedded systems using JTAG, I2C, SPI and UART.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate automated testing into product development and validation processes.

Qualifications 📑

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics or equivalent.
• Strong experience in QA automation or software testing within embedded or electromechanical systems (must have).
• Hands-on experience developing automated test scripts using Python, Bash, C or C++ (must have).
• Experience testing both physical hardware and embedded software (must have).
• Experience using JTAG, I2C, SPI and UART for embedded system testing and debugging (must have).
• Strong experience identifying, debugging and resolving software defects within embedded or hardware-integrated products.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building test automation frameworks from scratch.
• Experience testing power distribution equipment.
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing or automated test equipment.

Why Apply? 🎉

• Opportunity to build and own QA automation processes within a brand-new testing function.
• Work hands-on across complex hardware, embedded software and advanced electrical systems.
• Join a rapidly scaling market leader supporting the growing data center and critical infrastructure industry.

Hit "Apply Now" for further details if you meet the criteria above, or send your resume directly to a.michaels@harperharrison.com.