(SFTJD/520) Engineer Product I - Product Validation & Verification I

Need someone with strong communication skills. Someone who is self-motivated. Targeting someone with a software engineering background, rather than mechanical engineering oriented who is interested in doing field software test work to verify product and system level performance. Able to retain information and apply it. Someone with knowledge of John Deere equipment and precision products

What You'll Do

• Provide Software Engineering Test and Verification of John Deere's line of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers
• Work with Software and System Engineering to define test setup and standardize test plans
• Participate in periodic bug review meetings to ensure software development and product team understand software issues clearly.
• Provide daily assistance and guidance to team on scheduled tasks/bugs, which may involve working with non-technical team members to understand customer faced issues.
• Diagnose and perform 1st level root cause analysis on software bugs.
• Perform product verification and validation activities in lab environment and on various Ag vehicles via manual and automated test setups.
• Frequent travel to the Test Farm, 80% of time performing field test cases for Receiver validation
• Working with major agricultural machinery in an experimental field test environment.
• Working independently and as a team with engineers to test GNSS Receiver product
  
  

Requirements

Ideally the candidate will have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Agricultural Systems Technology, or Agriculture Engineering related field.
• Experience with precision agriculture product and equipment operation experience
• Experience with test plan creation and execution
• Experience with software development life cycle and reporting/tracking software defects
• Demonstrated effective analytical, reporting, & presentation skills.
  

A strong candidate will also have:

• Strong knowledge of Precision Agriculture equipment.
• Experience using John Deere or other Agricultural equipment
• Experience with GNSS Receiver testing.
• Experience with validation and/or verification testing of system requirements and regression-level testing.
• Demonstrated experience with CAN communication.
• Experience with troubleshooting Hardware related issues.
• Experience with software tools, such as Microsoft Project, Team Foundation Server (TFS), or Rally