Software QA Engineer - Polaris

Software QA Engineer

Ride into your next career move with Polaris! Polaris has partnered with Doherty for over a decade to hire great employees! We are looking to hire a Software QA Engineer for their location in Plymouth, MN.

This role is a 6-month contract opportunity with potential to extend.

You get :

• Competitive Salary
• Exciting work environment
• Hybrid, Day shift hours, Monday through Friday

Job Summary :

Polaris, a global powersports leader, is looking for a Software QA Engineer to build high quality products on the Ride Command team.

This is an exciting position on a team building world-class connected rider solutions. As a contributor on the team, you will have the ability and empowerment to make changes and move quickly.

This is a unique position to contribute to the team as both a QA Engineer and a Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Engineer. As a HIL Engineer, you will assist the test automation engineer to develop, deploy, and maintain uniquely designed HIL systems for the QA team.

As a QA Engineer, you will have the opportunity to directly impact cellular connectivity, infotainment, and cloud development projects at Polaris.

The ideal candidate is effective in a fast-paced Agile development environment, pushing industry best practices and system maturity through analysis, automated testing, and performance testing of Ride Command products.

Interest in powersports is a plus!

Company Summary :

At Polaris Inc., we have fun doing what we love by driving change and innovation. We empower employees to take on challenging assignments and roles with an elevated level of responsibility in our agile working environment.

Our people make us who we are, and we create incredible products and experiences that empower us to THINK OUTSIDE.

Software QA Engineer Responsibilities :

• Work directly with the GEECS V&Q Test Automation Lead to develop future QA HIL test systems
• Maintains and updates QA HIL test systems to support team needs and to stay aligned with the rest of validation team’s test systems
• Contribute to software quality initiatives by developing robust test cases that exercise full system functionality and align with program requirements
• Organize testing efforts to align with product delivery timelines
• Flexible enough to work on multiple products being produced for a fast-changing market
• Have a customer-focused mindset for delivering a product that is centered around a great customer experience
• Analyze system performance for bottlenecks
• Be an active participant in enhancing a mature agile environment
• Thoroughly document issues found, assign proper severity, and drive resolution
• Responsible for executing both manual and automated test scripts to verify Infotainment component functional and performance requirements
• Configure benches to support specific test scenarios
• Should be comfortable with testing software on stationary vehicles
• Should be comfortable with moving vehicles around
• Should be comfortable to ride vehicles to do performance evaluation
• Must be able to multitask and change gears between platforms
• Characterize and document defects including identifying steps to reproduce, linking failures to requirements, and collecting all associated test logs
• Develop and Update test cases as required
• Interact with multiple engineering disciplines (Systems Engineering, Software Development, Validation, Suppliers) to support defect resolution

Software QA Engineer Key Requirements :

• B.S. in Engineering (prefer Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering)
• 1-5 years’ experience, preferably in an embedded software or HMI validation role
• Experience with vehicle communications protocols, CAN / J1939 / UDS preferred
• Ability to work in a collaborative, fast-paced team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with real-time test systems highly desired (e.g., dSPACE, Vector, NI, ETAS, etc.)
• Ability to troubleshoot test and electrical systems using scopes and multimeters
• Experience developing applications or using test frameworks within an object-oriented programming language, Python preferred
• Experience using a software version control system, Git preferred
• Experience with Jenkins preferred
• Experience with JIRA, TestRail preferred

What are you waiting for? Join this energetic team today! For questions or further information about the Software QA Engineer position, please call 952-832-3576 or email [email protected].