Software QA Engineer

About the role

Bevi is on a mission to transform how beverages are delivered and consumed. Our connected beverage platform eliminates the need for single-use bottles and cans, making it easy, fun, and sustainable to stay hydrated. As the category leader in IoT-enabled beverage technology, we're building a future where Bevi machines are everywhere people live, work, and connect. We've raised over $160M in venture capital, serve thousands of customers across the US, Canada, UK and Ireland, and we've been rapidly growing year over year, saving over 1 billion bottles from waste. In addition to driving hypergrowth with our current product line, Bevi is heavily investing in new product development.

Responsibilities

• Own quality across our full stack, validating embedded firmware on physical machines and hardening our firmware release process.
• Work closely with our Firmware and Software teams to build test strategies that catch issues before they reach a customer.
• Work from our Boston office 3+ days per week, since much of the job involves hands-on testing with physical machines and lab hardware.
• Monitor and test firmware and low-level software development throughout the entire software development life cycle (SDLC), verifying that releases meet defined quality standards and customer agreements.
• Design, implement, and maintain test strategies for embedded systems and connected-device workflows to assess release-readiness.
• Validate firmware behavior on physical machines and test hardware, including sensors, dispensing mechanisms, and connectivity modules.
• Test over-the-air (OTA) firmware update flows for reliability, rollback safety, and fleet-wide rollout.
• Characterize firmware behavior under soak and stress testing to catch memory leaks, timing issues, and intermittent failures.
• Work to prevent bugs from occurring during development, improving the overall development process rather than just catching issues after the fact.
• Collaborate with firmware, software, and hardware engineers to identify and resolve identified defects.
• Track and document test procedures and findings in a bug tracking system, and participate in design review meetings to report on results.
• Contribute to release sign-off and help define quality gates for new machine, firmware, and software releases.
• Explore and adopt AI-powered testing tools such as AI-assisted test generation, self-healing automation scripts, and anomaly detection to improve test coverage and efficiency.
• Debug firmware issues at the source using debuggers, serial consoles, and logic analyzers to isolate whether failures originate in firmware, hardware, or integration layers.
• Develop tests that exercise firmware over its communication interfaces (UART, I2C, USB, Wi-Fi), including fault injection and boundary conditions like power loss, sensor failure, and degraded connectivity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 2+ years of relevant experience in QA or test engineering, ideally spanning both embedded/firmware and software systems.
• This is a career-development role within the QA discipline: you'll take on assignments of increasing complexity under moderate supervision, with some latitude for independent judgment.
• Hands-on experience testing embedded systems (C/C++, RTOS environments, serial or wireless communication protocols).
• Understanding of IoT or connected-device architectures, including cloud-to-device communication.
• Experience with bug tracking and test management tools (ex, Jira).
• Comfort working directly with physical hardware and lab equipment, not just simulators.
• Understanding embedded C/C++ to review firmware changes, reason about failure modes, and write meaningful test cases against them.
• Familiarity with hardware debugging and measurement tools (multimeters, logic analyzers, j-link debuggers, serial terminals).
• Understanding of common embedded failure modes.
• Scripting ability for building or maintaining test automation and CI/CD tooling is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work across firmware, software, and QA teams.
• Able and willing to work onsite at our Boston office 2–3 days per week.

Additional Skills

• Experience with hardware test rigs, oscilloscopes, or protocol analyzers.
• Background in IoT, appliances, or other connected-hardware products.
• Familiarity with pytest-based embedded test frameworks or firmware simulation/emulation.
• Exposure to bootloaders, OTA/DFU update mechanisms, or firmware release processes.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS) and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience building custom test fixtures or HIL test rigs from scratch.
• Experience working with JIRA and/or Confluence is a plus.
• Experience with specific AI testing/code review tools.

Pay

The posted compensation range reflects the salary* for this position. Some roles may be eligible for a commission plan or a bonus incentive. All Bevi employees receive equity in the form of stock options. All full-time employees are invited to participate in our Total Rewards plan, which includes health & medical benefits, flexible spending accounts, flexible PTO, and more. Offers to join Bevi are based on a few criteria, including the scope of the role, the candidate's work experience, targeted skills, internal equity of the team, and external market data.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans with BlueCross BlueShield, 95% paid by employer.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible PTO plus 12 company holidays, and additional paid days for sick leave, etc.
• Generous fully paid parental leave for both birth parents and non-birth parents.
• Wellness and fitness reimbursements.
• Monthly stipends for cell phone use and commuting costs.
• Onsite snacks, weekly catered lunch, and (of course) unlimited Bevi...
• Plus composting and terra-cycling, too.
• Happy hours, team-building events, bagel breakfasts, Values awards - and more.