Who You'll Be Joining Our Embedded QA team is looking for a Senior QA Engineer to work within the Device Platform group. You’ll work closely with the Product Stakeholders, Firmware Developers, Hardware Engineers, and other QA Engineers in a cross-functional agile workplace. You will have the opportunity to be exposed to and get your hands on a variety of tools, frameworks, and technologies.

You will advocate for quality, coach peers on testing techniques and methodologies, organize and coordinate testing, automate tests, as well as design and maintain test automation infrastructure. Your testing starts early in the cycle and your ideas and opinion matters from planning to deployment.

Whether you are enhancing our automation infrastructure, developing new test fixtures, or writing and executing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for our latest features, there are always exciting things to work on!

This role follows a hybrid schedule, with in-office work required on Wednesdays and Thursdays from our Toronto office to support collaboration, and flexibility to work remotely for the remainder of the week. How You’ll Make An Impact

- Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automated test infrastructure for our hardware products and their associated firmware components
- Architect, design, and develop test frameworks and tools; and integrate them into the CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) to enable continuous testing and rapid feedback loops.
- Perform comprehensive system-level testing, including functional, integration, regression, and performance testing for embedded firmware, hardware interaction, and application software.
- Collaborate closely with embedded software engineers to improve code testability and define testable interfaces and mock layers for current features.
- Participate in all Agile activities, including sprint planning, code reviews, and design discussions,



to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
- Develop and maintain clear documentation for testing patterns, best practices, test plans, test cases, bug reports and any other research findings
- Coach peers on testing techniques and methodologies and guide decision making for test automation.
- Represent the QA team in cross-functional gatherings, and advocate for quality in decision making

What You’ll Bring To The Table

- A critical thinker with passion for quality and software testing
- You are truly a tinkerer; you create your own apps and robots at home
- Strong software development and design skills to build test automation infrastructure
- Strong coding skills in Python, C or C++
- Experience with Embedded Firmware
- Extensive experience on software testing techniques, methodologies, and tools
- You have used Selenium, Robot Framework or similar frameworks
- You have done electronic design and PCB layouts
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or other container technologies
- Knowledge and troubleshooting of networking protocols such ad BLE and Wi-Fi

Just so you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check What Happens After You Apply Application review. It will happen. By an actual person in Talent Acquisition. As we sometimes get upwards of 100+ applications for some roles, it can take a few days, but every applicant can expect a note regarding their application status.

Interview Process.





- A 30-minute phone call with a member in Talent Acquisition
- A 90-minute technical deep dive interview with the 2 members of the team. Expect a pair programming style interview.
- The final round will be 90 minutes with the Hiring Manager and a member of the leadership team to assess background, experience, technical depth and overall fit for the role.

Generac is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role based in Toronto, ON is $100,900 - $131,100 CAD. This compensation will ultimately be in line with the location in which the position is filled. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, certifications and geographic location. This role is eligible for variable compensation including short term and long-term incentives. This position includes a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental and vision plans; life, long-term disability, flexible spending and health savings accounts, accrued paid time off, paid Holidays (10 for Ontario, 11 for British Columbia) and RRSP retirement benefits The Company is committed to improving accessibility for Canadian with disabilities and to ensuring that all our employees and applicants have the support and the tools they need to succeed. We have developed policies relating to human rights, accessibility, and accommodation, and provide all our employees with training on accessibility including under provincial legislation such as the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, either during orientation and/or on an ongoing basis. If you feel you need accommodation in relation to a disability in the application process or in the future, or have a question or concern about our policies, please reach out to [email protected]

📌 Senior Engineer QA (Toronto)
🏢 Generac
📍 Toronto