Description
Embedded, Testing, Safety Critical, IAR workbenchI am currently looking for 2 software test engineers to work on a brand new and exciting project that is in the initial stages of development. You will be testing low level embedded software in a safety critical environment.
Location: Bedfordshire (commutable Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Stevenage)
Job Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months +
Rate: £30-£35 p/h
The company are industry leading in their field and are developing a new optical product, in order to maintain their standing in their field.
You will be joining the client on a 6 month contract, which has a likely extension beyond that where you will be joining at the forefront of this project working on the full lifecycle.
You will join the V+V team and will have to quickly gain an understanding of the project and contribute to the demanding time frames in place.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years experience in embedded C development and test for critical applications i.e. medical/ avionic/ automotive
- Full understanding of the full life cycle of development, particularly with regard to embedded test.
- Familiarity with software developed for embedded systems or supporting PC based applications.
- IAR workbench for ARM Cortex and Visual Studio IDE
- Knowledge of both functional and non-functional software testing using black box and white box testing methods for unit, integration and system level testing.
- Verification of 3rd party software (e.g. RTOS, GUI middleware, device drivers, bootloaders/ firmware upgrades, LCD touch screens)
- Verification of 'Startup' and 'Runtime' BIST.
- Ability to write software test cases and software from scratch.
- Ability to make software test protocols and software verification/validation summary reports from scratch.
Ability to run the software test protocols - Familiarity with electronics hardware
- Ability to use oscilloscopes, signal generators and multimeters.
- Software version control, Defect tracking tools/methods for bug capture and reporting.
Desirable:
- Recent experience of medical software lifecycle and standards
- Experience of testing optical systems - including camera images and barcode data
I am looking for someone to start as soon as possible so if you are interested please send me your CV as soon as possible.