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In this role, you will validate the end-to-end connectivity, functionality, security, and reliability of our smart devices, bridging the gap between physical hardware, edge firmware, and cloud platforms. You will design automated edge-tocloud test setups, simulate necessary test environments, and ensure flawless wireless communication under real-world conditions.\nKey Responsibilities\nIoT Test Strategy & Network Simulation\nEdge-to-Cloud Validation: Design test strategies covering the entire IoT data path from physical sensors to cloud databases and user applications.\nNetwork Simulation: Set up test benches to simulate varying network conditions, packet loss, high latency, and intermittent connectivity.\nScale & Stress Testing: Conduct fleet-scale simulation to evaluate how cloud infrastructure handles concurrent data bursts from thousands of edge nodes.\nAutomation & CI/CD\nHardware-in-the-Loop (HIL): Build and maintain automated HIL test rigs for continuous testing of connected products.\nAPI Testing: Automate verification of cloud APIs.\nDevOps Integration: Embed automated hardware connectivity tests directly into GitLab CI/CD delivery pipelines.\nWireless, Protocol, & Power Verification\nRF & Wireless Testing: Validate wireless performance across protocols like BLE, Wi-Fi, LoRaWAN, and Cellular.\nProtocol Analysis: Intercept and analyze network traffic using Wireshark to verify MQTT, CoAP, HTTP, and Protobuf payloads.\nPower Profiling: Measure microampere battery consumption during active transmission, sleep states, and deep sleep modes to verify battery-life targets.\nIoT Security & Resilience\nSecurity Auditing: Conduct vulnerability testing, including firmware reverse engineering resistance, secure boot verification, and certificate rotation.\nEncryption Validation: Ensure all data-at-rest and data-in-transit utilizes appropriate TLS, AES, or ECC encryption standards.\nOTA Update Validation: Rigorously test Over-the-Air (OTA) firmware update mechanisms against power interruptions, corrupted payloads, and rollbacks.\nRequired Qualifications & Skills Experience\n10+ years of experience in embedded systems QA, with at least 5 years focused specifically on connected IoT products.\nProven track record of testing and deploying commercially successful smart home, industrial IoT (IIoT), or wearable devices.\nTechnical Skills IoT Protocols:\nAdvanced knowledge of messaging protocols (MQTT, CoAP, HTTPS) and wireless stacks (Wi-Fi, BLE, NB-IoT).\nLanguages: Python and solid understanding of C/C++. 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