Senior Design Verification Engineer

ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions is seeking a Senior Design Verification Engineer within the Embedded Systems team.  This role is essential for the successful development and launch of products.  You’ll work closely within engineering to help define test methodologies, ensure rigorous validation of our connected hardware solutions, develop automation and CI/CD infrastructure and strategies that helps support a robust and scaling test product test methodology.

What will you do as our Senior Design Verification Engineer?

The Senior Engineer role has the following expectations:

• To exhibit initiative and be able to perform at a high level and with limited supervision within a supportive and multi skilled team-based development environment.
• Able to prioritize work and produce consistent progress towards defined goals.
• Able to take assigned tasks, identifying and clarifying inconsistencies and be able to progress to high standard of completion.
• Able to take ownership of the testing of new product features, analyze use cases and create relevant tests to exercise the product functionality.
• Ability to develop expertise in new areas of technology identified to support future product development.
• Able to clearly communicate technical concepts both verbally and in writing.
• Participate and contribute to the technical design process.
• Adopt a consultative approach to problem solving where requirements may need clarifying.
• Understands the need for clear, concise and maintainable technical documentation to assist management and peer engineers.

Primary Duties Other duties may be assigned.

• Able to develop a Test Plan based on product or design specifications, schematics, and other relevant inputs.
• Capable of defining test cases that validate specific functional and performance requirements.
• Able to design and implement test solutions within clearly defined constraints.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to clarify objectives and identify practical solutions.
• Demonstrates the ability to analyze customer‑reported issues and support defect triage activities.
• Able to prepare and present test results and reports to relevant stakeholders.
• Understands how the product under test fits into and interacts with the overall system solution.
• Able to identify and develop multiple use‑case scenarios for a given feature.
• Capable of designing and executing non‑functional tests (e.g., performance, reliability).
• Comfortable working with a variety of testing technologies and tools.
• Proactively investigates issues and improvement opportunities in existing processes and contributes to corrective actions.
• Understands test-driven development (TDD) principles and collaborates with stakeholders to review and validate test plans.
• Strong understanding of system‑level and solution testing, including interoperability and long‑term stress or reliability testing.
• Able to apply a broad range of testing techniques to support scalable and automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitors, triages, and resolves test failures occurring within CI/CD pipelines.
• Designs, updates, and documents CI/CD infrastructure to support new features. 

Essential Qualifications (this is a role with wide scope and people with suitable experience are encouraged to apply.)

• Engineering degree (or equivalent), or comparable practical experience.
• Six (6) to ten (10) years of relevant industry experience.
• Previous hands‑on experience with embedded device testing, embedded firmware testing, software testing, or closely related test activities.
• Working knowledge of software installation and configuration on Windows and Linux platforms.
• Capable of installing and configuring basic computer hardware and setting up connections to local networks and back‑end systems.
• Experience using test case management tools.
• Background in scripting for test or automation purposes.
• Experience tracking software development activities using Jira or similar tools.
• Familiarity with Agile and Lean development methodologies.
• Ability to develop and maintain coded or automated test solutions.
• Experience working with single‑board computers (e.g., Arduino, Raspberry Pi) and interfacing with sensors, relays, and stepper motors.
• Ability to design and build physical test setups, including managing external suppliers when required.
• Understanding of test and development approaches such as data‑driven (DDT), behavior‑driven (BDD), test‑driven development (TDD), acceptance testing, unit testing, and performance or reliability testing.
• Experience performing system‑level and system integration testing, including end‑to‑end validation.
• Proficient with standard development tools such as editors and compilers.
• Comfortable using common lab and test equipment, including oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, power supplies, spectrum analyzers, and signal generators. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Languages, scripting, and test frameworks (e.g. C, Python, Bash, PyTest, Robot Framework).
• Knowledge of CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and version control.
• Experience with test management tools (e.g. TestRail, Zephyr)
• Experience testing IoT, connected hardware, or smartphone integrated products.
• Familiarity with common protocols (e.g. I2C, SPI, serial/RS232/RS485, Ethernet).
• Hardware testing using on desk fixtures, automated runners, with hardware in the loop runners and diagnostic tools.
• Demonstrable knowledge of API structures XML, JSON, or similar.
• Ability to read and understand schematics of the device under test as well as CI/CD interface boards.
• Hardware development experience (schematic entry, PCBA layout) a plus.