Embedded Device QA Engineer

Wipro Ltd.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Wipro Limited in Cupertino seeks a Device-Side Software QA Engineer with strong experience in validating lower-level software across mobile and embedded device stacks. The role focuses on system software below the application layer and involves collaborating with development teams to resolve device-side issues.

Responsibilities include designing test scenarios, validating functionality, collecting logs, defect triage, and driving test automation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on device-side or embedded software testing experience below the application layer.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, defect isolation, and root cause analysis skills.
• Proficiency in log analysis, crash analysis, stack trace interpretation, and system-level failure investigation.
• Knowledge of operating system concepts, processes, threads, memory, inter-process communication, file systems, boot flows, and system services.
• Experience validating lower-layer components such as frameworks, middleware, HAL, device drivers, firmware interfaces, kernel modules, connectivity, sensors, or security subsystems.
• Ability to create test cases from technical requirements, architecture specifications, interface definitions, and defect history.
• Experience with defect tracking, test management, source control, and engineering collaboration tools.
• Working knowledge of scripting—preferably Python, Shell, or Bash—for diagnostics and test automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute test scenarios for device-side system software, platform services, drivers, firmware interactions, and hardware-software interfaces.
• Validate functionality, stability, reliability, performance, power, boot, recovery, upgrade, and fault-handling behavior across device builds.
• Reproduce, isolate, and troubleshoot failures that span operating system, framework, middleware, driver, firmware, and hardware layers.
• Collect and analyze device logs, crash dumps, stack traces, kernel logs, system traces, and performance data to identify failure patterns and probable root causes.
• Perform defect triage, document clear reproduction steps and technical evidence, and collaborate with software, firmware, hardware, and automation teams through closure.
• Support new device bring-up, software integration, regression testing, release qualification, and production issue investigation. (Nice 2 Have)
• Develop or enhance scripts and utilities for test execution, log collection, failure parsing, and repetitive validation activities.
• Improve test coverage by identifying boundary conditions, negative scenarios, subsystem dependencies, and field-like failure conditions.

Skills

Embedded testing

Debugging

Log analysis

Scripting (Python)

Defect isolation

System-level testing

Tools

Python

Shell

Git

Job description

Wipro Limited in Cupertino seeks a Device-Side Software QA Engineer with strong experience in validating lower-level software across mobile and embedded device stacks. The role focuses on system software below the application layer and involves collaborating with development teams to resolve device-side issues.

Responsibilities include designing test scenarios, validating functionality, collecting logs, defect triage, and driving test automation.