Quality Engineer

Hunter Douglas•Broomfield, CO

6h•Hybrid

About The Position

Hunter Douglas is the world’s leading manufacturer of window coverings and a major manufacturer of architectural products. We are a brand that you know and trust. With more than 100 years of innovation, we’ve defined our industry with proprietary products that deliver revolutionary style and functionality and can be found in millions of homes and commercial buildings globally. We are searching for candidates that are driven, intelligent, creative, and entrepreneurial. By offering challenging and accelerated opportunities for growth, powered by a shared hunger for success, we create a space for your career to thrive. In return for your expertise, we are committed to providing competitive and robust total compensation and benefit packages to ensure you feel valued. Our dream is to become the fastest growing, most loved, window covering company in the world. What’s yours? Position Overview: Will perform as a quality assurance test engineer that develops, executes, and maintains test cases in conjunction with helping support automated test scripts and programs to deliver high quality motorized products for Hunter Douglas customers. Logs and track defects, reports technical issues to team, development or product management teams, and verifies fixes. Works closely in parallel with the development teams in many various technical fields of expertise (EE, FW, ME, SW, QA). Systems engineering background, that understands to convert good verifiable requirements linked to from marketing needs, and test methods to determine pass/fail criteria for the developers and the goals to develop a good, complete product. Identifies and focuses his efforts on the key deliverables of the must have requirements market needs (MPV), but still presents awareness of the nice to have wish lists that may not be met. Has a natural intuition of the reason for failure and provides detailed data analysis to support his/her findings. Comfortable in a work environment wearing many hats; mechanically inclined designing fixtures, building large wired/wireless networks, utilizing software to run test scripts, and getting test results posted in Test Rails with data acquisition analyses.

Requirements

Basic knowledge and understanding of mechanical and electrical design.
Basic knowledge and understanding of design and troubleshooting of electro-mechanical, firmware/software driven scripts, mobile app wired/wireless networking systems.
Solid knowledge and demonstrated ability to identify and trouble shoot failure analysis of projects being tested.
Basic Knowledge of document control systems used during the development of new testing equipment.
Solid knowledge of overall QA automation methodologies and processes.
Basic knowledge of mobile, web and embedded architectures.
Basic knowledge of mobile test automation on iOS and Android platforms.
Solid knowledge in analytical, problem solving and conceptual skills.
Skill in developing and maintaining effective work relationships.
Ability to execute scripts to run automate processes.
Ability to discuss systems in both technical and layman terms
Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with attention to detail and closure.
Ability to demonstrate good organizational skills, detailed oriented.
Ability to quickly establish credibility and foster collaborative relationships throughout the NPD team.
Ability to demonstrate strong knowledge and application of testing strategies and methodologies.
Ability to complete assigned tasks in an accurate and timely manner with minimum direction.
Ability to troubleshoot the current test methods/equipment/processes as well as create new ways of testing.
Ability to manage multiple projects and meet timelines.
Ability to achieve goals and objectives in a timely and cost effective manner.
Ability to communicate well and work successfully with all levels of individuals within the NPD team.
Ability to demonstrate high regard for product quality, attention to detail, and determine corrective action to problems.
Ability to accept guidance and direction from both the Engineering development and QA testing staff and work comfortably in a team environment.
Ability to communicate and express his/her findings, both verbally and written, in well-arranged reports based on the audience as need.
Ability to compare and contrast test data to determine best path forward.
Comfortable in evaluating consumer products, especially electromechanical assemblies that are driven by embedded firmware and software mobile app controls with possibly some limited experience and/or exposure to such technologies.

Responsibilities

Design and develop reliable, scalable and maintainable test cases that can be done in automation.
Work closely with engineering, product management, and quality.
Plan, design, implement, and review test plans.
Diagnose, debug, and perform root cause analysis of issues and defects.
Ensure full code coverage, including mobile application functionality, and proper shade operation in both local and remote use cases.
Influence the selection of testing tools and methodologies used by the team.
Generate, perform, and maintain test automation reporting systems.
Work in a team-oriented environment, responsible for test development of a specific product or group of products, interfacing with design, product, and manufacturing engineers from product definition and planning through production and release.
Ensure testability of new designs.
Work with design engineers to implement test features that result in reduced cost / time-to-market and improved quality of product.
Design and innovate test applications for new and existing products.
Willingness to research and suggest new and creative ideas for testing HD and/or alternative brand products.
Facilitate and carry out special projects to closure and ensure all procedures are properly documented.
Execute performance/characterization testing to ensure product meets customer specifications.
Works closely with other test lab members to identify new testing equipment opportunities and experiment with development of automated test stations and selection of appropriate test equipment.
Work with multi-function teams on assigned projects and be a good team player, as well as drive others involved in assigned projects to get their help as needed to complete the project.
Designs, develops, and builds equipment, components, and fixtures to meet upcoming testing needs by using internal or external suppliers.
Troubleshoot and repair of existing electrical and mechanical test equipment and well as product.
Ability to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
Employees are held accountable for all duties of this job.