Embedded & Flight Software QA Engineer

Role: Embedded & Flight Software QA Engineer

Industry: Space Technology

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Role Type: Full-time

Experience: 3-4 Years

About the Role:

We are looking for an Embedded and Flight Software QA Engineer with 3-4 years of experience to support verification and validation of embedded controllers, flight software, hardware interfaces, and software delivery pipelines. The role requires strong hands-on skills in test planning, requirements analysis, test case design, test execution, defect reporting, and automation across hardware and software environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze system, software, and hardware requirements and derive detailed verification objectives.
• Create, review, and maintain test plans, test procedures, test cases, test scripts, and test reports.
• Execute functional, integration, regression, interface, and system-level tests for embedded and flight software.
• Perform testing using both hardware-in-the-loop and software-based simulation environments.
• Verify controller behavior, communication interfaces, device drivers, sensor/actuator integration, and fault handling logic.
• Support DevOps and CI/CD workflows for automated build, test, quality checks, and release validation.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts and utilities using Python, C, and C++ where applicable.
• Log, track, debug, and verify defects in collaboration with embedded software, firmware, systems, and hardware teams.
• Ensure compliance with defined test processes, documentation standards, review practices, and quality gates.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, test coverage, automation strategy, and verification efficiency.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Science, Embedded Systems, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 3-4 years of experience in embedded software QA, flight software QA, firmware testing, or related verification roles.
• Strong understanding of embedded systems, microcontrollers, processors, peripherals, and board-level interfaces.
• Hands-on knowledge of communication interfaces such as UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, RS-485, Ethernet, or similar protocols.
• Experience in requirement-based testing, test case writing, test execution, traceability, and verification documentation.
• Exposure to hardware test setups, lab equipment, debugging tools, emulators, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, or equivalent environments.
• Programming and scripting experience in C, C++, and Python.
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, version control, build systems, and automated test execution.
• Ability to understand software architecture, interface control documents, state machines, timing behavior, and failure modes.
• Good analytical, debugging, communication, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with aerospace, satellite, avionics, robotics, automotive, defense, or mission-critical embedded systems.
• Familiarity with software verification life cycles, quality standards, configuration management, and release processes.
• Knowledge of test automation frameworks, static analysis tools, code coverage, continuous integration dashboards, and issue tracking tools.
• Exposure to hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation environments, telemetry validation, command handling, or real-time embedded systems.

Tools and Technologies:

• Languages: C, C++, Python
• DevOps and CI/CD: Git, build pipelines, automated test execution, code quality checks, and release validation workflows
• Testing: Requirement-based testing, regression testing, integration testing, interface testing, hardware/software environment testing
• Hardware: Controllers, peripherals, communication interfaces, lab equipment, and embedded debugging environments

What we are looking for: a detail-oriented QA professional who can work closely with embedded software, hardware, systems, and mission teams to ensure reliable, testable, and high-quality flight software. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working in lab environments, debugging complex issues, improving test automation, and maintaining strong verification discipline throughout the development life cycle.