Senior Software QA Engineer

Our Boston office host various teams belonging to the IoT software division, including Platform, wireless tools and protocols, quality assurance, application specialists, and project management teams. We are proud of the work atmosphere we maintain by fostering excellent collaboration and good communication at all times.

Meet the Team

The IOT Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Team at Silicon Labs, which is spread across several different geographical locations, focuses on improving the overall quality of the Silicon Labs SiSDK Product. The SiSDK products contain all the wireless (Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Bluetooth Mesh, Zigbee, OpenThread, Matter, Wi-Sun, Z-Wave, and proprietary protocols) and 32 bit micro-controller (MCU) software required to build end products for the Internet of Things (IoT) Market. Silicon Lab’s SQA Team works closely with the Software (SW) Development teams to ensure a deep understanding of the product, features and system functionality. Silicon Lab’s SQA Team utilizes an internal test framework to automate all tests for repeatability and stability along with providing detailed test reports on each build of the product to provide our customers with quality assurance. The SQA team has decades of experience in providing high quality embedded SW products to our customers which include the largest names in the industry.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute functional, negative, performance, and stress tests for Silicon Lab’s embedded wireless and MCU products.
• Work closely with development team(s) to debug problems found during the test cycle
• Develop automation tests so they can be run regularly as part of a continuous integration infrastructure
• Assist in resolving customer issues by working closely with the customer support team to answer and reproduce customer-related issues
• Emulate customer environments by working closely with the sales team and field application engineers in supporting customer’s needs and debug customer’s problems
• Build, manage, and maintain a distributed test network
• Simplification and automation of product deployments and platform changes
• Productivity increase of the team through identifying opportunities to automate and script daily tasks and eliminate waste in existing processes

Skills You Will Need

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science with 5+ years industry experience as a software developer and/or test automation
• Knowledge of Python/Pytest in addition to C/C++ with GenAI
• Knowledge of Jenkins for CI, Docker and GIT as Source control are a must.
• Data communications and networking experience (TCP/IP, etc)
• Wireless protocols knowledge.
• Experience with continuous integration technique and test automation system.
• Able to create and review test plans based on requirements.
• Ability to plan CI processes.
• Experience in implementing test strategies and test plans.

The following qualifications are considered a plus:

• Experience with continuous integration
• WiFi and Thread protocols knowledge
• Test Application development including standard API’s (REST API)
• Experience with task management and bug tracking systems such as JIRA
• Team leading and-or coordinating experience
• IoT Domain knowledge

Benefits & Perks

You can look forward to the following benefits:

• Great medical (Choice of PPO or Consumer Driven Health Plan with HSA), dental and vision plans
• Highly competitive salary
• 401k plan with match and Roth plan option
• Equity rewards (RSUs)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Life/AD&D and disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts
• Adoption assistance
• Back-Up childcare
• Additional benefit options (Commuter benefits, Legal benefits, Pet insurance)
• Flexible PTO schedule
• 3 paid volunteer days per year
• Charitable contribution match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free downtown parking 2 weeks a month
• Onsite Gym and locker rooms coming in April 2026
• Monthly wellness offerings
• Free snacks
• Monthly company updates with our CEO