Quality Assurance Engineer (m/w/d) for Embedded Devices

About Hach

At Hach, we ensure water quality for people around the world. Protecting our most valuable resource - water - and promoting sustainability are at the heart of everything we do. You will become part of a flexible, family-friendly company that cares as much about its employees as it does about the environment.

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About the Role

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer (m/w/d) for embedded devices at our Düsseldorf site. In this role, you will work in a cross-functional team to ensure the quality of our products across both software and hardware, while actively contributing to their further development and maintenance.

For this position, you bring a degree in computer engineering or a comparable field, as well as at least two years of relevant professional experience in a quality environment.

A typical day in this role includes:

• Planning, creating, and maintaining test plans and test cases based on requirements, specifications, and risk analyses
• Performing manual and automated tests (e.g., integration, regression, and system tests)
• Verifying and validating device software and hardware
• Analyzing, documenting, and tracking defects and deviations using appropriate tools (e.g., Jira)
• Developing and enhancing automated test systems and scripts
• Conducting reliability and stability tests (e.g., ALT/HALT, long-term testing)
• Collaborating closely with firmware, software, hardware, and system engineers to identify root causes and resolve issues
• Supporting risk analyses (e.g., FMEA, technical risk assessments)
• Ensuring quality requirements across the entire product lifecycle
• Creating and maintaining traceable test and quality documentation
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of test and QA processes

Key requirements:

• Technical education or degree (e.g., IT, electrical engineering, mechatronics) or comparable qualification with relevant professional experience
• Experience in quality assurance, particularly in quality metrics, test planning, and test setups
• Programming skills (e.g., Python, C/C++) and experience with common bug tracking and documentation tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, MS Office)
• Experience working with embedded systems, low-level software, interfaces, and fieldbus systems
• Experience testing systems with and without real-time operating systems
• Independent, structured working style and strong teamwork and communication skills
• Very good German and English skills

We offer:

• 35-hour work week for a healthy work-life balance
• 30 days of annual leave
• Professional onboarding and training opportunities
• A strong team that looks forward to working with you
• Career coaching and development opportunities
• An international work environment with people who want to make a difference
• Performance-based compensation in line with the collective agreement of the metal and electrical industry
• Flexible working hours
• Company pension scheme through MetallRente

Our work at Hach

At Hach (Hach Careers), our work ensures water quality for people around the world. Our customer partnerships, dedicated experts, and reliable, user-friendly solutions make water analysis better - faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. As part of our team, you will have a direct, measurable global impact across industries ranging from aviation to manufacturing to mining. You will also be part of an environment that fosters career growth and professional development, with kindness at its core. And you will contribute to our mission of developing water quality solutions that protect the health and safety of all living beings.

At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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