SW QA Engineer

Role: SW QA Engineer

Location: Onsite. Santa Clara, CA

Experience : 5+ years

Must to update to the consultants:

Additional Details:

Work Model & Expectations

• Work from office: 5 days a week

• Working hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM or 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

• Weekend support:

o ~3 hours, planned well in advance

o Typically once or twice a month

Skillset:

• Hands-on experience with Windows BSP testing and platform setup.

• Familiarity with UEFI flashing, KDNET debugging, and automation tools.

• Strong understanding of power states, hibernate cycles, and modern standby.

• Proficiency in bug triage, log analysis, and reporting.

• Prior experience with OEM device validation

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines for BSP builds and QA automation.

• Familiarity with USB4, DP tunneling, and certification readiness tasks.

Role Overview – QA Engineer:

• Focus: Consumer products (upcoming desktop platform)

• Writing and executing test case

• Manual testing

• Windows-based testing

• Uploading test results

• Bug tracking and reporting

• Strong Windows testing experience

• Debugging tools: WinDbg, KDNet

• Memory debugging knowledge

• Experience with Intel & AMD platforms

• OEM system testing experience

• CUDA knowledge preferred

Responsible for test and analysis of issues across Internal and OEM configurations.

The role ensures CI/CD quality, compliance with OEM requirements, and readiness towards release.

Key Responsibilities:

• Device Setup & Configuration:

o Flash builds onto Yukon boards and OEM devices.

o configure UEFI, OS images, and KDNET settings for debugging.

o enable crash dump collection and install SoC, GPU, and platform drivers.

• Develop and run automation and test for Internal and OEM devices across different functional, stress, power and performance areas

• Exploratory testing to find corner case scenarios, should have expertise in one or multiple subsystems

• Triage Internal and OEM bugs, track repro status; collect logs/dumps and assist in debugging.

• Collaboration: Work closely with BSP, OEMQA, and automation teams for timely validation; coordinate with internal and external stakeholders for build readiness and issue resolution.

• prepare test execution reports and communicate to execution team