Engineer I-Software Quality Assurance

Microchip’s FPGA software engineering team develops the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software used by our customers to program Microchip FPGAs. Customers perform their entire FPGA design flow using our software: from design entry, to synthesis, through place-and-route, timing, power analysis, and simulation.

Our Software Quality Assurance (SQA) engineering group defines testing requirements, develops and implements testing strategies, and automate testing flow for better repeatability and maximum testing outputs. The candidate will work in a team environment interacting with many cross-functional groups, including design, development, manufacturing, application and marketing teams. The successful candidate will have an overview and good understanding of the complete work flow for our products and be rewarded by developing useful technical skills as well as being connected and appreciated by many teams at Microchip.

Microchip Technology Inc. has an Engineer I-Software Quality Assurance opening based in Austin, TX.  This position is an excellent opportunity for someone willing to think outside of the box, daring to ask questions and enjoy diagnosing complex problems and maximizing by automation. As a software quality assurance engineer at Microchip, you will work on testing cutting-edge Software Integrated Design Environment (IDE) with a team of industry-leading experts. You will be joining an agile fast-paced engineering team, where you will solve highly challenging yet interesting problems. You will have ownership over developing a comprehensive set of tests to verify functionality of the IDE software and perform detailed root cause analysis into software defects found. 

Responsibilities:

• Design comprehensive test cases for FPGA software based on developing features and/or customer use-cases.
• Design and develop automated testing tools to improve test coverage and efficiency.
• Review software design and documentation to ensure technical accuracy and completeness, or to mitigate risks.
• Identify corner cases in IDE software features and perform detailed validation of functionality.
• Reproduce customer issues and perform root cause analysis of failures.
• Contribute to release software validation and meet release target.

Job Requirements: 

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering.
• Excellent programming skills. 
• Experienced in Verilog, Systemverilog, or VHDL.
• Strong knowledge of digital design and work experience with FPGAs.
• Exposure to synthesis/simulation tools.
• Good understanding of testing complex software.
• Hands-on experience with Git source code version control.
• Strong communication skills in verbal & written English.
• Ability to multi-task and work effectively in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with shell scripting languages (Python, Tcl, Perl, Bash, etc.).
• Comfortable with large-scale software development in both Linux and Windows environments.