Principal Firmware QA Engineer

Title: Lead Firmware QA Engineer, Astera Labs, Bengaluru, India.

Astera Labs Inc., a leader in purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems, is seeking Lead Software QA Engineer for their Bengaluru (India) Design Center. Partnering with leading processor and GPU vendors, cloud service providers, world-class manufacturing companies, Astera Labs is helping data-centric system designers remove performance bottlenecks in compute-intensive workloads such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (EE) or Computer Science is required; a master's or PhD in EE is preferred with minimum 4 years of experience.

Required Experience:

• Experienced and detail oriented PCIe switch test engineer with solid understanding of PCIe protocol.
• Estimate work, identify dependencies and develop schedules.
• Responsible for designing and executing functional, performance, interoperability and stress tests.
• Work closely with Silicon team, architecture team, FW development team to understand the design and develop test strategies.
• Responsible for manual and automation testing.
• Strong knowledge of scripting ( Python ) is must.
• Responsible for automation development and manual testing.
• Perform Signal integrity and protocol level validation.
• Closely work with development teams to triage and debug issues.
• Knowledge of collecting PCIe trace using PCIe analyzer and analyzing the trace to triage issues.
• Experience in PRBS testing, loopback and margining tests.
• Good understanding of OOB testing and Protocols like MCTP, I2C, SPDM etc.
• Experience is PCIe compliance testing is a plus.
• Regularly working with Hyperscale's and Tier 1 OEMs to communicate plans and status, address escalations, deliver on SLAs.
• Knowledge in validation of NIC controllers and storage controllers is preferred.
• Requirements management and traceability through software development phases.
• Mentoring and coaching team members to help them excel in their jobs.
• Power user of Git, Jira and Confluence.