As an Embedded Quality Assurance Engineer working with the Ring Solutions Systems Engineering team, you will join a group of hands-on, passionate, and seasoned professionals developing innovative life safety and lifestyle products. Testing is primarily focused on qualifying and releasing custom hardware, embedded Linux distributions, embedded firmware, and maintaining releases centered around Ring Alarm products.

Key job responsibilities
- Qualify daily developer stories and tasks to approve for deployment
- Work with other QA members to develop test strategies to effectively qualify Ring products to meet high quality standards and release schedules
- Assist in developing test plans for embedded devices and embedded Linux platforms
- Understand component test strategies for product architecture and where necessary, make quality trade-off decisions at the feature level
- Use lab equipment and software test tools to qualify firmware to determine product readiness
- Assist in automation of implemented frameworks
- Simplify and extend team development, test, and operations processes; recommend and improve quality metrics
- Proactively report product readiness status to stakeholders and effectively apply solutions that assess and mitigate quality risks for product releases
- Troubleshoot and isolate bugs to help developers research the root cause of problems, and track defects through resolution
- Take ownership of problems (even when outside your own domain), propose solutions, and either drive their resolution or ensure a clear hand-off to the right owner
- Assist interns and new hires

A day in the life
- Working in a fun and fast paced environment, with a team of very talented professionals
- Qualifying features and functionality on cutting edge Ring products
- Trouble shooting and performing root cause analysis for challenging issues
- Collaborating with other QA and Development team members and stakeholders
- Supporting external partners in the manufacturing process

About the team
The Ring Alarm Systems Team is a development team specializing in embedded Linux board support and embedded firmware based devices. We are a self-sufficient group that works closely with the hardware design engineers to bring up first run designs. We develop products and help bring them to life from concept to the store shelves. Another core piece of our Systems Team is our Quality Assurance team. Developers and QAEs work closely to get features across the line and delivered. We also work very closely on topics of device security in the development and manufacturing processes.