Hardware VnV Engineer

Contract Phoenix, AZ (On Site) Job Description

• Developed, maintained, and debugged Python-based hardware validation scripts for board-level and interface-level verification and validation (V&V).
• Translated hardware and system requirements into detailed test procedures, automated test scripts, and measurable pass/fail criteria.
• Executed hardware verification and validation (HW V&V) for embedded systems, ensuring compliance with functional and performance specifications.
• Validated and debugged hardware communication interfaces including UART, RS-422, RS-485, SPI, I2C, GPIO, Ethernet, and CAN.
• Performed hardware bring-up, failure analysis, and root-cause debugging across Python scripts, firmware, and board-level hardware.
• Conducted issue triage to isolate failures related to test setup, automation scripts, firmware behavior, or hardware defects.
• Utilized laboratory equipment including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, digital multimeters (DMMs), programmable power supplies, and signal generators for hardware testing and signal analysis.
• Developed modular, reusable Python automation with logging, exception handling, retries, timeout mechanisms, and robust error handling to improve test reliability.
• Managed source code using Git, participated in code reviews, and supported automated test execution through basic CI workflows.
• Maintained requirement-to-test traceability, test evidence, execution logs, waveform captures, and validation reports to ensure complete verification coverage.
• Authored comprehensive test documentation, including setup guides, troubleshooting procedures, known failure modes, and reusable debugging playbooks.
• Independently owned the complete hardware test lifecycle from test design and automation development through lab execution, defect closure, and continuous improvement of test throughput and reliability.