Sr Quality Engineer, Embedded

Responsibilities

• Own quality for your area: Take accountability for your work product and the impact it has on the system and adjacent work products; help break down complex issues into manageable testing strategies.
• Drive cross-team collaboration: Proactively collaborate with partners outside your immediate team to evaluate options, align on quality risks, and support the best decision-making.
• Create clear, durable documentation: Produce written communication (test plans, test results, bug reports, and knowledge articles) that others can easily follow in tools like Confluence/Jira/Slack (or equivalents).
• Improve execution and outcomes: Scope and stage testing work into well-defined milestones, prioritize high-value coverage early, and actively avoid unnecessary scope creep.
• Champion customer experience: Identify high-impact issues quickly, validate fixes thoroughly, and advocate for the right bugs to be fixed to protect the end-user experience.
• Support automation efforts (as applicable): Identify areas that should be automated. Quickly determine the source of failures.
• Troubleshoot effectively: Apply structured troubleshooting approaches to isolate issues across software, hardware, networking, and environment factors.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Linux and Python (comfortable working from the command line and creating/debugging scripts).
• Exposure to embedded devices and testing hardware/software interactions.
• Understanding of networking technologies such as Wi-Fi, cellular, and Z-Wave (or similar protocols) and how they impact behavior, performance, and reliability.
• Exposure to C and C++ (reading code, recognizing common defects, collaborating effectively with engineers).
• Troubleshooting mindset: exposure to common diagnostic approaches and techniques (log analysis, reproduction isolation, configuration/environment validation, etc.).
• Ability to triage issues, react well to change, work cross-functionally, and multi-task while protecting critical coverage.
• Solid verbal and written communication with a strong ability to document clearly and drive alignment.
• Organized, curious, and excited about technology—takes ownership and follows through.

Education

• CS or EE educational background (degree preferred or equivalent practical experience).

What Success Looks Like at the Senior Level

• You are viewed as a go-to expert in at least one domain area and require little-to-no guidance when learning unfamiliar systems.
• You bring strong judgment, actively seek feedback, and consistently balance tradeoffs to deliver the right quality outcomes.
• You challenge ideas respectfully, align on decisions, and execute effectively.
• You raise overall team capability by mentoring others occasionally (test strategy feedback, defect investigations, and best-practice guidance).
• Familiarity with test management/defect tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Xray/TestRail, Confluence).

Working Conditions

• This job operates in a professional office environment, including sitting/standing at a desk for the duration of the day.

Pay

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

Schedule

This job operates in a professional office environment, including sitting/standing at a desk for the duration of the day.