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: 18 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description
Specific Position Requirements
What You'll Do
- Provide Software Engineering Test and Verification of Client's 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 non-technical 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 self-motivated.
- 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
- Bachelor’s 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 regression-level 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.
TekWissen is an emerging global human capital, recruitment and IT services organization. Operating since 2009, we draw upon more than a decade of staffing experience to deliver critical talent acquisition solutions and IT engagements for our clients. We’re founded on a culture that is passionate about delivering tailored solutions, that create lasting partnerships.
Our global footprint covers six countries: United States, Canada, Australia, India, United Kingdom and the Philippines. This allows us to work in close partnership with organizations and manage everything from global talent needs with demanding resourcing strategies, to single sites with lower recruitment volumes.
TekWissen® is an equal opportunity employer supporting workplace diversity.