Join Cerebral Staffing, LLC on site at our client John Deere in Urbandale, IA as a GNSS Software Test Engineer!

Location: Urbandale, IA

Duration of Role: 1+ years

Pay: $42.00 - $45.00 / hourly

Visa sponsorship is not available, now or in the near future, for this position.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

·        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

REQUIRED:

·        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.

DESIRED:

·        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