# QA Engineer, Connected Devices — Electric Team

About the role We are looking for a QA Engineer to own quality across the firmware and software integration layer of BURN's electric stove platform. This is a hands-on, greenfield role: you will design test strategies, build automation tooling, instrument hardware, and collaborate daily with firmware engineers, backend developers, and mobile engineers to ship reliable, connected cooking devices to customers across Africa. You will own quality end-to-end across a stack that spans physical stove hardware, embedded Linux gateways, AWS IoT Core cloud infrastructure, and a customer-facing PAYG mobile application. No single layer is out of scope. Key responsibilities Test Strategy & Coverage Design and execute the system-level QA strategy for BURN's electric stove platform, spanning firmware, IoT gateway, cloud backend, and mobile app layers. Define risk-based test priorities: identify the failure modes that would cause a customer's stove to stop working on payday and ensure these are covered first. Own the full defect lifecycle: triage cross-layer bugs spanning hardware, firmware, APIs, and mobile; write reproducible reports that bridge hardware and software evidence; track

- **Id**: 3757208
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/burn-qa-engineer-connected-devices-electric-team-2>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Nairobi, Kenya
- **Countries**: KE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T14:00:25Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-04T14:00:25Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6815
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Energy Efficiency, Home Appliances

## Company

- **Id**: 4472010
- **Name**: BURN
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/burn-4>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MQTT** — Optional: no
- **OWASP** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Robot Framework** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T17:16:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 81
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.858
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 9
- **Reasons**: seen:5, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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