Firmware QA Developer

dcbel Inc. (www.dcbel.energy) is a growing company developing technology and designing products that will make clean, efficient, and sustainable energy accessible to all — because everyone in the world deserves energy without compromise.

dcbel at the leading edge of the residential energy revolution, enabling decentralized energy consumption and production through its vertically integrated suite of energy hardware and software products, and their supporting infrastructure. Our flagship product, the dcbel Home Energy Station, is a small wall mounted device that gives everyone ownership over their energy supply by using solar power to charge their EV and home, unlocking their EV’s battery for backup power (V2H), and optimizing the energy flow between their solar panels, EVs, backup battery and the grid.

The opportunity

dcbel is looking to hire a QA developer to work in our growing Firmware/OS team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in developing, improving, and maintaining our firmware automated testing infrastructure for our growing product line. The QA developer will develop and maintain an automated test infrastructure as well as the required tests for our platforms. 

Main responsibilities

• Manage and participate in the development of test plans; writing tests procedures, executing tests, writing test reports, and creating/tracking software problem reports.

• Identify and implement improvements in test coverage, cycle time reduction, scalability, and overall quality.

• Participation in formal software qualification or certification activities with third party and/or governmental standards.

• Architect and implement an automated test infrastructure for embedded systems.

• Ensure the correct ongoing functionality of the developed infrastructure

• Write functional tests leveraging the architected infrastructure

• Perform release management for the firmware/OS team
  
  

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electrical or Software engineering

• Experience with automated test frameworks (pytest, robot framework, xUnit, Lava, etc.)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines as applied to embedded systems

• Demonstrated experience delivering consumer products involving custom-made hardware components

• Recent experience with Azure DevOps and/or Jira

• Familiarity with industrial/embedded busses, (CAN, modbus, rs-232, ethernet)
  
  

• Knowledge of system safety and regulatory standards.

• Knowledge of requirements management tools, problem tracking tools, configuration management tools and test management tools (XRAY, R4J, JIRA, ect.)
  
  

Bonus skills

• Bilingual English and French
  
  

• Familiarity with residential electrical installations, EV charging protocols and solar energy 
  
  

Profile

• Autonomous, entrepreneurial mindset, result oriented and strong EQ 
  
  

What's in it for you

• Be part of a company that is backed by numerous globally respected investors and has world-changing patents in an industry changing for the first time in history.

• Grow your professional experience amongst blue chip partners and a close-knit team of committed and experienced energy experts who deeply care about the work they do.

• Full benefits package including Health insurance, Health virtual care, employee stock options plan (ESOP) and flexible hours. Parking available or with our employer commute program a short walking distance from Metro Namur.