Automation Architect

Why is this a great opportunity?  

 At Johnson Controls, we’re shaping the future to create a world that’s safe, comfortable, and sustainable. Our global team creates innovative, integrated solutions making the people, facilities, and assets safe with our industry-leading security solutions. We are passionate about improving the way the world lives, works, and plays.  

The Automation Architect is an exciting opportunity to be part of the development of the next generation of AI-driven security solutions. Your role will have a large impact being part of a small but nimble hardware QA team. The technology you test and support will be used to protect people, facilities, and assets, at scale – around the world. Which is pretty world-changing and exciting  

You will have an opportunity to work with extremely talented and dedicated people across hardware engineering, software and firmware. Your testing work will transform customer experiences with the latest cutting-edge technologies that power next-generation Access Control and Video solutions. Our market-leading brands include Tyco AI, American Dynamics, Cloudvue, Illustra, Exacq, Software House, Kantech, Innometriks, and CEM.  

We are investing heavily in the growth of our QA team and looking for change agents with big bold ideas and a highly collaborative working style. This might just be THE impactful role you have been looking for  

What will you do 

The Automation Architect will be involved in the full software development lifecycle including prototyping QA approach solutions for both hardware and software, estimations and providing high level technical mentoring and coaching to all hardware/firmware qa team members. You will drive team members to hit QA testing targets as well as push for agile and QA best practices and will be a proponent and driver to automate where possible and always think outside the box. We need a go getter with an open mind and passion for QA who functions well within software and hardware environment alike. 

How you will do it 

The Automation Architect will be part of an established QA test team located in Westford, MA, and responsible for various Software, Hardware and Firmware projects. We are operating with Agile principles, and resources would be part of one or more agile pods. You will develop test approaches and cases based on stories in backlog and drive team to execute to these plans/tasks/test cases.  Candidates must be commuting distance to Westford, MA, or able/willing to relocate.

Other duties include:

• Will use various Black Box /White Box test techniques to identify defects and assist in finding root cause.  

• Validate product quality prior to release. 

• Test cases will be based on product functional specification and design requirements that are all part of Epics, features and stories.    

• Configure and maintain test environments and create data sets appropriate to qualify products.  

• Enter and help identify root cause of defects. 

• Collaborate with development engineers, architects, and level 3 support engineers across organization.   

• Automate test cases using UFT, Ready API and other scripting languages such as python, java script, java.   

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What you will need 
Required  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an accredited university or equivalent 

• 10+ years of related hardware and software test experience 

• Understanding of basic networking including Ip addressing; Gateways; DNS; DHCP 

• Basic understanding of electronic and electrical wiring and wiring diagrams (for example understanding how to wire power and communications to controller 

• Use of tools for diagnosing and troubleshooting: Multimeters 

• Performance measuring and troubleshooting tools...such as Window performance Monitor  

• Basic SQL knowledge, with ability to write basic to moderate SQL queries 

• Full understanding of APIs, and ability to test it without front end 

• Solid UFT experience and willingness to automate – QTP/UFT, C++ 

• General SDLC knowledge for both Agile and Waterfall 

Preferred  

• Moderate Windows and Linux Operating System knowledge including performance monitoring and network topologies 

• Experience with Access Control systems 

• Basic electronics knowledge, ability to understand and build simple electrical circuits  

• Performance testing familiarity and capability  

• Wireshark knowledge for performance monitoring  

• Strong automation skills with UFT, Java, Java script 

• Master’s degree