TekWissen LLC
Location
Urbandale, IA | United States
Job description
Overview:
TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is the brand name of Deere & Company an American corporation that manufactures agricultural machinery heavy equipment forestry machinery diesel engines drivetrains used in heavy equipment and lawn care equipment.
Job Title: GNSS Software Test Engineer
Location: Urbandale IA 50322
Duration: 20 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
Performs basic product design testing and/or analysis work for a defined portion of a project.
Operates in a team environment providing input to design solutions and participating in design reviews.
Develops recommendations within established guidelines; work and decisions are reviewed by supervisors before implementation.
Duties:
Applies existing applications to routine problems.
Produces and/or evaluates possible design solutions to improve cost quality and performance based on specialized knowledge of engineering applications.
This may include possible involvement of other functional engineers supply management and/or supplier personnel.
Analyzes assignments and determines engineering specifications which must be fulfilled for routine problems or projects.
Compiles and furnishes necessary information (engineering decisions and reports of pertinent design analyses data) to document the design solution required for building of prototypes and adoption of the design with possible involvement of other functional engineers supply management and/or supplier personnel.
Learns and applies company engineering policies and practices
Learns company products. Executes test or analysis plan for product verification and validation.
What Youll Do
Provide Software Engineering Test and Verification of Clients line of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers.
Work with Software and System Engineering to define test setup and standardize test plans
Participate in periodic bug review meetings to ensure software development and product team understand software issues clearly.
Provide daily assistance and guidance to team on scheduled tasks/bugs which may involve working with nontechnical team members to understand customer faced issues.
Diagnose and perform 1st level root cause analysis on software bugs.
Perform product verification and validation activities in lab environment and on various Ag vehicles via manual and automated test setups.
Frequent travel to the Test Farm 80% of time performing field test cases for Receiver validation
Working with major agricultural machinery in an experimental field test environment.
Working independently and as a team with engineers to test GNSS Receiver product
Need someone with strong communication skills.
Someone who is selfmotivated.
Targeting someone with a software engineering background rather than mechanical engineering oriented who is interested in doing field software test work to verify product and system level performance.
Able to retain information and apply it.
Someone with knowledge of Client equipment and precision products
Ideally the candidate will have:
Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Agricultural Systems
Technology or Agriculture Engineering related field.
Experience with precision agriculture product and equipment operation experience
Experience with test plan creation and execution
Experience with software development life cycle and reporting/tracking software defects
Demonstrated effective analytical reporting & presentation skills.
A strong candidate will also have:
Strong knowledge of Precision Agriculture equipment.
Experience using Client or other Agricultural equipment
Experience with GNSS Receiver testing.
Experience with validation and/or verification testing of system requirements and regressionlevel testing.
Demonstrated experience with CAN communication.
Experience with troubleshooting Hardware related issues.
Experience with software tools such as Microsoft Project Team Foundation Server (TFS) or Rally
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
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