Intermediate QA Engineer – Embedded, Hardware & Software

About us

We're a growing Kiwi tech company that designs and builds the touchscreens, embedded computers and software inside security, fire safety, building automation and professional AV systems. You won't see our name on them, but our products are installed in buildings around the world and trusted by some of the biggest brands in those industries.

Everything we make has to run reliably for a decade or more, in places where failure isn't an option. That makes quality engineering central to what we do. We're now building our own product platform and scaling up, so we're growing the QA team to match.

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The role

As an Intermediate QA Engineer, you'll be a hands-on member of our Quality Engineering team, reporting to the Head of Quality Engineering. You'll test across the whole product: application software, touchscreen UIs, firmware and the hardware underneath.

Some days you'll be writing automation. Other days you'll be at the bench with a hardware-in-the-loop rig, working through a boot issue with our hardware engineers. You'll own your assigned scope, with Senior QA Engineers on hand for strategy and the harder problems.

What you'll do

• Design and run manual and automated tests across software, firmware and hardware
• Write and maintain automation for web and API layers, and help extend it to on-device UI and embedded testing
• Help build and use hardware-in-the-loop rigs, jigs and instrumented benches that bring manual hardware checks under automation
• Run functional, boot and soak/stability testing on target hardware
• Review requirements and specs, and flag gaps early
• Log clear, reproducible defects and work with developers to resolve them
• Use AI tools such as Claude to generate test cases, write automation and triage logs, and check what they produce
• Contribute tests to our CI/CD pipeline

What you'll bring

• A few years of commercial experience in both manual and automated software testing
• Proven commercial experience with Selenium, Postman and Agile delivery
• Test experience across at least two of web, Android, iOS or embedded software
• Scripting skills in Python or a similar language
• Some real practice using AI tools in your testing work
• The ability to plan and run your own work, and to know when to escalate
• A degree in Computer Science, IT or a related field, or equivalent commercial experience

Bonus points for

• Hardware test experience with PCBs and components, or with hardware-in-the-loop rigs
• IoT experience, or a background in the security, fire or building automation industries
• On-device UI automation (Espresso, UI Automator, Appium)
• Embedded C/C++ test frameworks (GoogleTest, Catch2, Unity, Ceedling)
• CI/CD experience, e.g. Jenkins
• ISTQB or an equivalent certification

You don't need to be a hardware engineer. You do need to want to learn how the board works, how the silicon boots and why a rail sags. On our products, you can't test the software well without understanding the hardware under it.

Why join us

• Test physical products that are installed in buildings around the world
• A mix of software, embedded and hardware testing, not just one layer
• A team that's investing in automation and AI-assisted testing
• Room to grow as we scale
• Hybrid working from our Auckland office

How to apply

Apply through Seek with your CV and a short cover letter. In your cover letter, tell us about a time you made something testable that was hard to test, whether that was software, hardware or both.

You must have the right to work in New Zealand to apply