IoT QA Engineer - AI-Driven Testing & Automation

HM Electronics Inc; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 75,200 - 100,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition reimbursement

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401K contributions

Pet insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

HME is seeking a Software QA Engineer to join our IoT device team, ensuring high-quality product delivery through testing, automation, and collaboration.

You will design and execute test plans, perform functional and end-to-end testing, validate firmware and OTA updates, and develop automated tests with Playwright, Postman, and Python. A BA/BS and 0–3 years of QA experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 0-3 years of experience in: Quality engineering, Test automation, Software and/or hardware testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute test cases and test plans at both functional and system levels.
• Perform black-box and gray-box testing on released products and products under development.
• Identify design and implementation defects.
• Functional, integration, and regression testing at both feature and system levels.
• End-to-end testing of IoT devices and systems.
• Distributed system validation (device-edge-cloud).
• Real-world deployment validation (field testing).
• Testing across Device → Edge → Cloud pipeline and MQTT/WebSockets protocols.
• Offline/low-connectivity scenarios and Firmware + OTA update validation.
• Automation opportunities and development/maintenance of automated test suites.
• Develop automated tests using scripting languages (Python).
• Collaborate cross-functionally to drive resolution.

Skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving

Excellent planning and organizational

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Jira

Xray

Confluence

Playwright

Postman

Job description

HME is seeking a Software QA Engineer to join our IoT device team, ensuring high-quality product delivery through testing, automation, and collaboration.

You will design and execute test plans, perform functional and end-to-end testing, validate firmware and OTA updates, and develop automated tests with Playwright, Postman, and Python. A BA/BS and 0–3 years of QA experience are preferred.