QA Team Lead

Job Description

Our client is seeking to recruit a Lead for the Engineering QA team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in developing, enhancing, and maintaining our firmware / hardware QA infrastructure to support our expanding product line.

This role requires someone with robust quality process management skills and expertise in both software and hardware engineering.

The Lead of Engineering QA will also be tasked with planning, developing, and implementing procedures for testing and evaluating engineering devices in alignment with relevant product specifications, industry standards, and governmental regulations.

Main Responsibilities :

• Lead and contribute to the development of test plans, including writing test procedures, executing tests, generating test reports, and managing software problem reports.
• Supervise the design and implementation of manual, automated, and semi-automated test equipment and software to improve efficiency and test coverage.
• Design, review, and optimize acceptance test procedures to ensure comprehensive coverage of system requirements.
• Develop and maintain thorough documentation for test procedures, systems, and equipment.
• Identify and implement enhancements in test coverage, cycle time reduction, scalability, and overall quality.
• Provide regular progress updates on test development projects and foster cross-functional collaboration to address technical hurdles.
• Prepare estimates for material cost and timing, and create reports and design descriptions as needed.
• Participate in formal software qualification or certification activities aligned with third-party and / or governmental standards.
• Review and update documents such as user manuals, integration guides, and test reports for various products.
• Participate in defining requirements and ensuring traceability from definition to test reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer / electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading a software quality assurance team.
• Proficiency in planning and implementing quality assurance systems, including processes, documentation, tools, and automation.
• Familiarity with the electrical industry and relevant government regulations / standards.
• Experience in quality assurance of embedded systems.
• Familiarity with software test frameworks (e.g., Robot, Pytest, Lava) and associated data formats (xUnit).
• Knowledge of electrical equipment and electronics.
• Familiarity with a wide range of test equipment and methodologies.
• Proficient in automation principles and interfacing with equipment and products.
• Understanding of data acquisition systems and protocols (e.g., GPIB, SCPI).
• Knowledge of system safety and regulatory standards.
• Familiarity with requirements management, problem tracking, configuration management, and test management tools (e.g., XRAY, R4J, JIRA).
• Knowledge of the electrical energy and renewables field.
• Familiarity with software development processes (e.g., Agile, CI / CD).

Bonus Skills :

Bilingualism (English and French, written and spoken).

Profile :

• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong emotional intelligence.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Dynamic, results-oriented individual with a strong team spirit and initiative.
Il y a plus de 30 jours