Embedded QA Engineer

Embedded QA Engineer

Location: High Wycombe / Hybrid
Term: Permanent, Full Time
Salary: £30k - 45k pa depending on experience + excellent benefits

Are you an Embedded QA Engineer looking to join an innovative team with a passion for creating audio products in applications including live music performance, studio recording and education?

You will be responsible for delivering intuitive and scalable testing solutions that support the development of our audio interfaces, synthesizers and controllers. Working within a project team, you will take ownership of QA activities within the team combining both manual and automated testing. This will include designing test strategy and writing both manual and automated test scripts.

Project work is typically managed in a combination of stage-gated and agile methodologies to suit the technical discipline and project complexity. Focusrite is committed to improving and you will have opportunity to help evolve our working practices to keep up to date with technology trends in our product sector and best practice in the software development industry.

• Familiar with test approaches for hardware, embedded software, and device drivers
• Experience creating test plans, test strategies and writing test cases
• Python coding experience
• An understanding of automation best practice and architectural principles
• Excellent design, debugging and problem-solving abilities
• The ability to clearly articulate problems and solutions for both technical and non-technical audiences
• A commitment to continual personal development, as well as improvement of the wider team

• A technical or engineering-based qualification
• Experience with testing audio products
• Experience writing automation frameworks for hardware and embedded software
• CI/CD configuration, implementation and maintenance experience (Git Hub Actions, Artifactory)
• Test driven development (TDD); unit, integration, automated and system testing experience
• Understanding of code management systems
• Experience of working using Agile methodologies such as Scrum
• Background in audio electronics and music technology

Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, enhanced maternity and paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.

The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion.