Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with general purpose programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, or C/C++).
- 1 years of experience with software test engineering, consumer electronics, and developing test automation solutions for smart home products.
- Experience with test strategies and methodologies, writing test plans, and creating stable automated test cases.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in delivering software product features/consumer devices, with a passion for quality and automation.
- Experience of working on low power, low memory devices and device validation techniques.
- Experience in consumer electronics or home automation.
- Knowledge of sensor technologies, filtering/sensing algorithms, acoustic domain and validation techniques.
- Detail-oriented with problem-solving skills and organizational skills.
At Google, our philosophy is build it, break it and then rebuild it better. That thinking is at the core of how we approach testing at Google. Unlike roles with similar names at the other companies, Test Engineers at Google aren't manual testers -- you write scripts to automate testing and create tools so developers can test their own code. As a Test Engineer, you navigate Google's massive codebase, identify weak spots and constantly design better and creative ways to break software and identify potential problems. You'll have a huge impact on the quality of Google's growing suite of products and services.
The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.
- Develop test strategy for new smart home products and features, and develop virtualization and device simulators based automated feature validation.
- Build a stable and reliable automated test suited to validate Google devices working together in a continuous integration system.
- Validate algorithms running on devices and validate improvements to ship high quality products.
- Develop test hooks to monitor code health and system stability, and identify key product indicators and build analytics that drive new features and improvements.
- Root-cause failures and indicator changes, through automated analysis.
