Engineer I-Software Quality Assurance
Engineer I-Software Quality Assurance
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Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great Want to join a 20000member team that works on the technology that powers the world around us Looking for an atmosphere of trust empowerment respect diversity and communication How about an opportunity to own a piece of a multibillion dollar (with a B!) global organization We offer all that and more at Microchip Technology Inc.
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Job Description:
Microchips FPGA software engineering team develops the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software used by our customers to program Microchip FPGAs. Customers perform their entire FPGA design flow using our software: from design entry to synthesis through placeandroute timing power analysis and simulation.
Our Software Quality Assurance (SQA) engineering group defines testing requirements develops and implements testing strategies and automate testing flow for better repeatability and maximum testing outputs. The candidate will work in a team environment interacting with many crossfunctional groups including design development manufacturing application and marketing teams. The successful candidate will have an overview and good understanding of the complete work flow for our products and be rewarded by developing useful technical skills as well as being connected and appreciated by many teams at Microchip.
Microchip Technology Inc. has an Engineer ISoftware Quality Assurance opening based in Austin TX. This position is an excellent opportunity for someone willing to think outside of the box daring to ask questions and enjoy diagnosing complex problems and maximizing by automation. As a software quality assurance engineer at Microchip you will work on testing cuttingedge Software Integrated Design Environment (IDE) with a team of industryleading experts. You will be joining an agile fastpaced engineering team where you will solve highly challenging yet interesting problems. You will have ownership over developing a comprehensive set of tests to verify functionality of the IDE software and perform detailed root cause analysis into software defects found.
Responsibilities:
Design comprehensive test cases for FPGA software based on developing features and/or customer usecases.
Design and develop automated testing tools to improve test coverage and efficiency.
Review software design and documentation to ensure technical accuracy and completeness or to mitigate risks.
Identify corner cases in IDE software features and perform detailed validation of functionality.
Reproduce customer issues and perform root cause analysis of failures.
Contribute to release software validation and meet release target.
Requirements/Qualifications:
Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering.
Excellent programming skills.
Experienced in Verilog Systemverilog or VHDL.
Strong knowledge of digital design and work experience with FPGAs.
Exposure to synthesis/simulation tools.
Good understanding of testing complex software.
Handson experience with Git source code version control.
Strong communication skills in verbal & written English.
Ability to multitask and work effectively in a team environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with shell scripting languages (Python Tcl Perl Bash etc.).
Comfortable with largescale software development in both Linux and Windows environments.
Travel Time:
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Employment Type
Full-Time
