Senior Engineer QA

Hi, we are ecobee.

ecobee introduced the world’s first smart Wi-Fi thermostat to help millions of consumers save money, conserve energy, and bring home automation into their lives. That was just the beginning. We continue our pursuit to create technology that brings peace of mind into the home and allows people to focus on the moments that matter most. We take pride in making a meaningful difference to the environment, all while being part of the exciting, connected home revolution.

In 2021, ecobee became a subsidiary of Generac Power Systems. Generac introduced the first affordable backup generator and later created the category of automatic home standby generator. The company is committed to sustainable, cleaner energy products poised to revolutionize the 21st century electrical grid. Together, we take pride in making a meaningful difference to the environment.

Why we love to do what we do:

We’re helping build the world of tomorrow with solutions that improve everyday life while making a positive impact on the planet. Our products and services work in harmony to provide comfort, efficiency, and peace of mind for millions of homes and businesses. While we’re proud of what we’ve done so far, there’s still a lot we can do—and you can be part of it.

Join our extraordinary team.

We're a rapidly growing global tech company headquartered in Canada, in the heart of downtown Toronto, with an office in Leeds, UK, and remote ecopeeps in the US. We get to work with some of North America and UK's leading professionals. Our colleagues are proud to bring their authentic selves to work, confident that what we do is grounded in a greater purpose. We’re always looking for curious, talented, and passionate people to join our team.

Who You'll be Joining:

Our Embedded QA team is looking for a Senior QA Engineer to work within the Device Platform group. You’ll work closely with the Product Stakeholders, Firmware Developers, Hardware Engineers, and other QA Engineers in a cross-functional agile environment. You will have the opportunity to be exposed to and get your hands on a variety of tools, frameworks, and technologies.

You will advocate for quality, coach peers on testing techniques and methodologies, organize and coordinate testing, automate tests, as well as design and maintain test automation infrastructure. Your testing starts early in the cycle and your ideas and opinion matters from planning to deployment.

Whether you are enhancing our automation infrastructure, developing new test fixtures, or writing and executing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for our latest features, there are always exciting things to work on!

This role follows a hybrid schedule, with in-office work required on Wednesdays and Thursdays from our Toronto office to support collaboration, and flexibility to work remotely for the remainder of the week.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automated test infrastructure for our hardware products and their associated firmware components
• Architect, design, and develop test frameworks and tools; and integrate them into the CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) to enable continuous testing and rapid feedback loops.
• Perform comprehensive system-level testing, including functional, integration, regression, and performance testing for embedded firmware, hardware interaction, and application software.
• Collaborate closely with embedded software engineers to improve code testability and define testable interfaces and mock layers for new features.
• Participate in all Agile activities, including sprint planning, code reviews, and design discussions, to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain clear documentation for testing patterns, best practices, test plans, test cases, bug reports and any other research findings
• Coach peers on testing techniques and methodologies and guide decision making for test automation.
• Represent the QA team in cross-functional gatherings, and advocate for quality in decision making

What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• A critical thinker with passion for quality and software testing
• You are truly a tinkerer; you create your own apps and robots at home
• Strong software development and design skills to build test automation infrastructure
• Strong coding skills in Python, C or C++
• Experience with Embedded Firmware
• Extensive experience on software testing techniques, methodologies, and tools
• You have used Selenium, Robot Framework or similar frameworks
• You have done electronic design and PCB layouts
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or other container technologies
• Knowledge and troubleshooting of networking protocols such ad BLE and Wi-Fi

Just so you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check

What happens after you apply:

Application review. It will