ASTERA LABS - Lead Firmware Quality Assurance Engineer

Basic Qualifications :

- Bachelors degree in electrical engineering (EE) or Computer Science is required; a masters or PhD in EE is preferred with minimum 4 years of experience.

Required Experience :

- Estimate work, identify dependencies and develop schedules.

- Responsible for designing and executing functional, performance, interoperability and stress tests.

- Work closely with Silicon team, architecture team, FW development team to understand the design and develop test strategies.

- Responsible for manual and automation testing.

- Strong knowledge of scripting ( Python ) is must.

- Responsible for automation development and manual testing.

- Perform Signal integrity and protocol level validation.

- Closely work with development teams to triage and debug issues.

- Knowledge of collecting PCIe trace using PCIe analyzer and analyzing the trace to triage issues.

- Experience in PRBS testing, loopback and margining tests.

- Good understanding of OOB testing and Protocols like MCTP, I2C, SPDM etc.

- Experience is PCIe compliance testing is a plus.

- Regularly working with Hyperscale's and Tier 1 OEMs to communicate plans and status, address escalations, deliver on SLAs.

- Knowledge in validation of NIC controllers and storage controllers is preferred.

- Requirements management and traceability through software development phases.

- Mentoring and coaching team members to help them excel in their jobs.

- Power user of Git, Jira and Confluence.