You know the moment. It’s the first notes of that song you love, the intro to your favorite movie, or simply the sound of someone you love saying “hello.” It’s in these moments that sound matters most. 

At Bose, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth. We’ve dedicated ourselves to improving it for nearly 60 years. And we’re passionate down to our bones about making whatever you’re listening to a little more magical. 

The engineering team at Bose is a thriving, passionate, deeply skilled team of professionals from a broad range of disciplines and experiences, who share a common goal—to create products that provide transformative sound experiences.

Job Description

About the Team

The Bose Software Quality Organization, part of the Consumer Electronics business at Bose, has an immediate need for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer.  This role will have the overall responsibility to drive testing operations for cloud-connected services and features within our soundbar and wireless speaker products. You will partner with software development engineers and apply methodologies, define test strategies, create test suites, execute test cases as well as design tools for functional and performance testing in a programmatic manner for several products and features.

About the Role

As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer of the In the Home Software Quality Team, you will be responsible for developing effective manual and automation test plans, as well as executing across our Out-Loud consumer audio product line. You will be collaborating with industry leading experts in different engineering fields such as software, hardware, electrical, signal processing, and user experience, to ensure that our products meet the highest standards.
 
Responsibilities:

• Work to develop and execute routine, smart and focused, manual tests based on identified feature sets to a scheduled plan.
• Inform stakeholders on trade-offs between quality, delivery time, and project resources, ensuring alignment with product and business goals.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions on dependencies, ensuring all teams (software, hardware, product management) are aware of QA-driven delivery impacts and adjustments.
• Write and execute manual test plans and related test cases.   
• Verify features and enhancements using white and black box methodologies
• Investigate and analyze root causes of technical issues and performance bottlenecks to provide sufficient data to engineering to help pinpoint problem areas in the system.
• Work in a continuous improvement environment.

 
About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related equivalent degree, plus 3+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance.  
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail and the ability to meticulously follow testing procedures.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Team player and exhibit a positive attitude
• Experience with Linux environments

 
Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Embedded Device testing based on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, and HDMI standards.
• Experience with Android, iOS, or other mobile application development or testing.
• Experience working with embedded Linux systems.
• Experience with Jenkins, Testrail, Jira, Confluence, github.
• Experience working in a continuous improvement environment.

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