Sr Test Automation Engineer II

EP World Hdqtrs, 6700 Washington Ave. So., Eden Prairie, MN 55344, USA

As a Sr. Test Automation Engineer II, you’ll architect and lead advanced hardware and software test platforms, driving automation, accuracy, and scalability across Starkey’s next-generation products. You’ll collaborate across engineering disciplines, mentor others, and turn complex real-world wireless and system behaviors into reliable, repeatable test solutions that directly influence product performance and quality.

Starkey is a world leader in the manufacturing and distribution of advanced hearing technologies. We are in the business of connecting people and changing lives. Our teams come to work each day focused on ensuring people everywhere have the products and services they need to hear better and live better.

Founded in 1967 by Bill Austin, Starkey is known for our cutting‑edge hearing health innovations, industry‑leading research and development, and for pushing the edge of what’s possible.

We are headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, have over 5,000 employees in 29 facilities across the globe, and do business in more than 100 markets worldwide.

• Serve as a leader for the successful development of projects, tasks, and the resolution of problems.
  • Proactively approach development tasks.
• Design and create test systems for the Starkey product’s platforms.
  • Collect, research, and document the needs and requirements of new test systems.
  • Evaluate off‑the‑shelf test and automation equipment.
  • Work independently and/or with internal or external resources to build and program test automation.
  • Integrate software and hardware and carry out system debug and tests.
  • Review and verify accuracy of designs and builds by others.
• Research, evaluate and implement new test methods that relate to the Starkey product platforms.
  • Stay current with new technology developments in the test and measurement area for new communication platforms.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of new methods and equipment and generate a report or present findings to a group.
• Maintain and update existing test systems.
  • Create periodic test system verification and preventative maintenance plans to ensure test results are accurate and repeatable for test platform systems.
  • Seek feedback from customers for improvement areas in the systems.
  • Ensure follow up with corrective actions to fix bugs and deficiencies.
• Design and implement calibration procedures and methods for the test.
  • Analyze implemented and possible new methods to increase accuracy and repeatability.
• Participate in the conceptualization and development of mechanical tools that will be used in test and test automation.
  • Interact with other engineering departments to provide ideas and concepts to develop mechanical tools for testing and automation.
• Design, create and test new software tools for the development of Starkey test platforms.
  • Use requirements and test goals to interact with software engineers to create or modify software tools.
• Maintain and improve existing test software tools.
  • Seek feedback from customers for areas of improvement.
  • Ensure follow up with corrective actions to fix bugs and deficiencies.
  • Develop new features and/or create new data sets in the database to support new products.
  • Test and debug new features and applications.
• Serve as a facilitator of discussion and analysis of data and problem solution.
• Create test procedures for test and calibration.
  • Use proven test methods to create test procedures documentation, work with tech writer to release documents.
  • Use proven calibration methods to create calibration procedures.
• Create reports and documentation for data collected in the tests.
  • Evaluate and compare the performance of test systems.
  • Develop metrics and ways to visualize system performance.
  • Apply statistical analysis to data to determine trends or correlations.
  • Effectively communicate the problems, trends and correlations discovered during test.
• Maintain and improve data collection, retrieving and reporting tool.
  • Seek feedback from customers for new queries/reports and areas of improvements.
  • Develop new features/reports.
  • Document changes and release new revisions, implement into test…