QA Engineer – IoT Firmware | Hybrid + Equity

Throne Labs; North Brentwood (MD); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Equity for US-based positions

Daily access to earned wages

401(k) plan

Paid time off and parental leave

Life insurance & disability

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Throne Labs in Brentwood, MD / Seattle, WA is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to contribute to QA/QC of our firmware and software across hardware interfaces. The role is full-time with a hybrid schedule, onsite about 3 days per week.

You will work with product and engineering teams, design test cases, perform manual testing, and help evolve QA processes to accelerate time-to-market while ensuring high quality and reliability. Equity and a comprehensive benefits package are included.

Qualifications

• Solid knowledge of software QA with 4+ years of commercial experience.
• Experience testing backend APIs, web and mobile apps.
• Understanding of cloud-based architecture and AWS tooling.
• Familiarity with microservices and serverless styles.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools.
• Experience with test automation using JavaScript, TypeScript or Python.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand requirements.
• Estimate test efforts and plan QA work.
• Design test cases, checklists and scenarios for different levels and types.
• Conduct manual testing of firmware and software for quality and user experience.
• Perform integration testing of hardware/firmware/software components.
• Investigate logs and locate issues in production and QA environments.
• Provide traceability and contribute to the Test Plan.
• Set up and maintain the QA test environment.
• Optimize testing using AI and automation tools.
• Contribute to technical and testing documentation.

Skills

QA fundamentals

API testing

Web testing

Mobile testing

AWS tools

Microservices

Observability tools

Test automation

AI tools

Tools

Selenium

Postman

Jest

Job description

Throne Labs in Brentwood, MD / Seattle, WA is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to contribute to QA/QC of our firmware and software across hardware interfaces. The role is full-time with a hybrid schedule, onsite about 3 days per week.

You will work with product and engineering teams, design test cases, perform manual testing, and help evolve QA processes to accelerate time-to-market while ensuring high quality and reliability. Equity and a comprehensive benefits package are included.