Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry’s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®.
Job Req ID: 546665
Job Posting Title: Engineer, Staff II- QA – Dev/Test
City: Irvine
State: California
Country: USA
Alternate Location: N/A
Percent of Travel Required: 0%
Job Function: Operations/Manufacturing
Discipline: ENG-Other-Quality Assurance Engineer
We are seeking a engineer to join a highly focused and professional software QA team engaged in creative test design and development, automation, and quality assurance of embedded networking software solutions. The position will entail technical leadership, depth and breadth.
Ideal candidates will have networking protocol knowledge, particularly Ethernet technology, networking and system architecture, one or more networking, and/or various storage and I/O interfaces. Seeking candidates who are excited about software testing and automaiton, and are capable of engaging at a deep level with technology.
Test procedures require the test engineer to configure the complex network topologies and system internals, understand the details of the various devices’ interactions while protocols operate, obtain and analyze packet traces.
Candidates must be passionate about software and product quality, backed with strong test design capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in test team activities including requirements analysis, test planning, tracking, reporting, and support of test cycles.
- Engage in test case design and execution including defect documentation and tracking, resolution support, and fix verification.
- Implement tools and test automation where applicable to increase effectiveness and efficiency. Python experience is ideal
- Work closely with product development teams, including direct and detailed interaction with software development teams.
- Develop test scenarios and plans for new features and releases
- Develop test strategies and plans to improve the effectiveness and productivity of the team, including methods, tools and processes.
Basic Qualifications:
- Demonstrated working knowledge and experience with computer networking hardware and/or software
- Demonstrated experience in a software test environment
- Direct work experience in a software test/development environment, preferably in embedded communications.
- Experience with one or more languages as applied to test automation development, preferably Python and Tcl.
- Demonstrated experience with system level debugging
- Demonstrated experience working in various O/S environments (Linux, Windows, ESX, etc)
- Understanding of virtualization concepts as they relate to networking and system performance
- Knowledgeable of current industry network equipment testing practices.
- Demonstrated ability to test at a deep level, and analyze issues found before engaging software development
- Knowledge of high performance processors, system on chip designs, and subsystem software and hardware
- Ability to demonstrate successful problem solving and analysis skills (i.e. determine root cause of performance shortfalls), including analyzing performance bottlenecks of processors and other system hardware blocks
- Ability to work with members from HW and SW engineering teams, architecture and marketing, customer support, as well as external customers
Additional Qualifications:
- Strong technical leaders will thrive in this role
- Knowledge of wireless LAN (WLAN) technology and related protocols.
- Knowledge of RDMA / RoCE / Infiniband technology
- Knowledge of SATA / USB / PCIe technology
- Experience with network test equipment – Protocol Analyzers, Protocol Jammers, Load Generators (Ixia, JDSU, etc)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to apply an innovative approach to solve complex problems.
- Independent and critical thinker and a self-starter
- C system programming is highly desired
Education Requirements:
Typically requires a BS degree and 6 years of experience plus training or an MS degree and 3 years of experience plus required training or a PhD and no experience. Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent preferred
Broadcom is an equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans)
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