SW / HW QA Lead

Bagira is a leader in the field of training and simulation systems with a track record of delivering high-end, customized, cost-effective solutions for mission readiness. Bagira’s simulators are being used by hundreds of thousands of soldiers at more than 40 sites worldwide.

Bagira is looking for a SW / HW QA Lead to join our engineering team at Bagira.

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced technical leader with strong leadership qualities, a can-do attitude, and a passion for technology to help us build and lead a new SW&HW QA testing team within Bagira, responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of our software and hardware-integrated simulation systems.

What will you do?

•  Own the QA strategy: define end-to-end test plans, validation strategies, and quality metrics for our systems, with comprehensive coverage across unit, integration, system, and regression testing.
• Lead system-level validation of hardware-software integrated products, including deep system debugging, root cause analysis, and integration testing across firmware, drivers, and hardware interfaces.
• Build advanced test automation: design automation frameworks and test infrastructure (Hardware-in-the-Loop, automated test rigs, simulation environments) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead and mentor QA engineers, collaborate with embedded developers, hardware engineers, and DevOps, and shape architecture and design decisions to improve testability and reliability.

Required skills:

• 7+ years in software testing / QA, including 3+ years testing embedded systems or firmware and hardware - software integrated products.
• Experience leading projects or mentoring engineers.
• Experience with system integration testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with mobile app testing (Appium) and web app testing (Playwright or similar).
• Experience with Embedded Linux environments.
• Test automation development in Python or similar scripting languages.
• Familiarity with debugging and integration tools such as Bash, PowerShell, Swagger, RabbitMQ, and Postman.
• Basic electronics or electronics-lab experience - significant advantage.

Nice to have

• Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing.
• Scripting in C, C++, or Java.
• Testing IoT or connected devices.
• Familiarity with protocols such as HTTP, MQTT, web sockets, BLE, and Wi-Fi.
•  Experience working in Agile environments.

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