Lead Engineer, Embedded System Verification
Coherent Corp.3 months ago
Horsham, PA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Review system requirements and translate them into comprehensive test plans.
- Create traceability matrices linking test cases to technical requirements.
- Define verification standards, tools, and best practices for a new team.
- Validate optical provisioning, alarms, telemetry, and software upgrades across CLI and gRPC interfaces.
- Perform end-to-end testing of optical transmission systems, including signal integrity, network resilience, protection switching, failure recovery, Layer 1 performance, and Layer 0 optical performance.
- Develop and maintain Python-based test automation.
- Implement CI/CD regression pipelines using Jenkins or GitLab.
- Run daily sanity tests and software/hardware regression testing.
- Develop test cases for new features and customer-reported issues.
- Produce test-summary and project-status reports for each release.
- Collaborate with software, hardware, systems, and product teams throughout development.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Five or more years of experience in communications-system verification and testing.
- Experience automating northbound interface testing using NETCONF/YANG, CLI, or SNMP.
- Experience testing Linux-based embedded systems.
- Strong Python scripting skills and familiarity with Visual Studio Code.
- Knowledge of TCP/IP, Ethernet, and OTN network protocols.
- Experience with DWDM technologies such as EDFA, WSS, OCM, and OTDR.
- Practical experience using oscilloscopes, optical spectrum analysers, and other laboratory debugging equipment.
- Experience with 100G, 400G, and 800G optical transponder modules is advantageous.
- Knowledge of Chinese is an asset.
- Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and deliver against demanding schedules.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.