Test Engineer, Google Nest

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience in developing test automation solutions in Java, C++, or Python.

• Experience with test strategies and methodologies, writing test plans, and creating automated test cases
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Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in developer tooling and infrastructure, building tools and testing frameworks, test-driven development, build infrastructure, optimizing software, and/or debugging.

• Experience in test automation, interfacing and controlling external test equipment, and writing script to analyze data.
  
  

About The Job

At Google, our philosophy is build it, break it and then rebuild it better. That thinking is at the core of how we approach testing at Google. Unlike roles with similar names at the other companies, Test Engineers at Google aren’t manual testers -- you write scripts to automate testing and create tools so developers can test their own code. As a Test Engineer, you navigate Google’s massive codebase, identify weak spots and constantly design better and creative ways to break software and identify potential problems. You’ll have a huge impact on the quality of Google’s growing suite of products and services.

The Google Nest Software Engineering team works on all the embedded software, backend cloud services, frontend cloud services, applications, and support tools that enable our Google Nest devices to provide delightful user experiences in line with our mission of “A home that takes care of the people in it and the world around it.”

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead/collaborate on improving developer and engineering team’s test coverage, release velocity, and production health.
• Work closely with development teams in instrumenting their workflow to build a comprehensive picture of velocity, coverage, and quality.
• Automate repeated tasks and build test coverage through existing or new infrastructure.
• Write moderately complex code/scripts to test systems, implementing test harnesses, and infrastructure as necessary.
  
  

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