Staff Engineer Bio SYS QA

An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Staff Engineer ( Biometrics QA) !!!!

Location: Cardiff UK

Job ID: 34363

As Staff Engineer, you will be providing, via a team of Biometric QA Engineers, the Test Infrastructure, Test Planning and Testing for Biometric Solutions in the HID PACS Business Area.

The qualified candidate will drive test plan development by gathering and documenting test requirements, develop and execute test cases, develop and iterate test procedures, identify testing risks and create mitigation strategies.

You will support sensor and system testing, including installing and configuring hardware and software, and conducting functional testing as a part of test preparation activities.

If this sounds like you keep on reading !

Who are we? 

HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,000 worldwide employees.  Check us out here: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo 

Join our winning team, Physical Access Control Solutions (PACS) at our Cardiff location.

The PACS business is highly visible and one of our most significant portfolios within HID Global. The PACS products include smart cards, mobile access and identifications, software, services and controllers for physical access control.

As our Staff Engineer (Biometrics QA), you will support HID’s success by:

• Able to design implement a wide range of testing techniques.
• Able to identify and liaise with external test facilities to cover test gaps
• Able to communicate test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to project manage and use technical leadership to achieve a team result
• Contributes to project and product planning discussions
• Understands how the product under test operates as part of a wider system
• Plans and scopes interoperability test requirements
• Able to make decisions regarding the Test Environment
• Coaches / mentors others at a technical level
• Able to raise defects with the business and help prioritize them based on severity
• Able to research, plan and train others within the team
• Able to deliver technical reports
• Actively contribute to customer escalations
• Champions TDD methodology and leads stakeholders in its implementation.
• Good understand of System/Solution testing, interoperability and longer-term stress/reliability testing
• Implements E-2-E and Ux testing of the System/Solution.

What we will love about your background:

• Staff Engineer is seen as a grounded and reliable engineer who is a master of their specific domain.
• Capable of owning technical design for projects of moderate complexity and understands the trade-offs in creating good work/output/product in their field.
• They are aware and self-learn industry best practices & trends and have acquired at least one major skill outside of their area of expertise.
• The Staff Engineer by all means, gets a lot done!  They are responsible for complex tasks and complete them despite roadblocks, involving other experts as needed to problem solve.
• They require little oversight beyond high-level direction and are capable of taking a complex scenario, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing sub-tasks with relative ease. 
• This engineer shows initiative beyond completing tasks list; they can identify and suggest areas of future work for themselves and their teams.
• The Staff Engineer self-seeks evidence to support their ideas and builds cases for these ideas.
• They have end-to-end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity that encompasses more than their own development.
• This engineer is known and seen as a technical leader by their peers and works effectively with non-technical members.
• Usually works with limited supervision, conferring with the wider team and Supervision as required.
• Has latitude for un-reviewed action or decision making, is the defacto technical leader of the Biometrics Quality Assurance team.

Your Experience and Education include:

• Possesses a suitable Degree or equivalent qualification or +7 years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Possesses and applies comprehensive knowledge principles, practices, and procedures over a wide range of fields including but not limited to Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Validation, and PACS Systems including Biometric solutions and AWS.
• Prior experience with designing and carrying out device testing, software testing, or other related testing experience
• Familiarity with software installation and configuration in Windows and Linux environments
• Ability to install and configure basic computer system hardware components and establish connections to local area networks and back-end processing systems
• Strong computer skills, particularly with Microsoft Office applications and diagramming flow charts to document test processes and design
• Experience with SQL DB queries to validate software recording proper data and ensure participant data ingested properly prior to testing
• Experience in scripting.
• Experience with tracking software development using Jira or other similar programs
• Experience of Agile and Lean Methodologies.

Why apply? 

Empowerment: You will work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise.

Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive ambitious change.

Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly.

HID Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. 

We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something.  HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries.  We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.  
 
When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 61,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.

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