Hands-on experience building hardware/embedded test automation and integrating it into CI/CD (automated flashing, execution, and reporting)
Solid wireless/networking fundamentals: Bluetooth audio (A2DP/AVRCP), BLE, and throughput testing (e.g., iPerf). You understand what to test, not just how to automate
Strong scripting/programming (e.g., Python) and the ability to build harnesses and dashboards from scratch
Experience defining test plans, metrics, and pass/fail thresholds from real data
Comfortable operating in an early-stage, prototype-hardware environment with limited units and evolving specs
Experience owning an automation testbed for a shipping consumer hardware product (wearables, audio devices, smart cameras, IoT)
Performance instrumentation experience: latency, sustained throughput, IPC/cycle count, and thread- and core-level tracing on embedded/multi-core platforms
Familiarity with Qualcomm chipsets and tooling (e.g., DSP framework, PyDebug) and the realities of vendor bug turnaround
Experience automating from a programmable Bluetooth central: Android, iOS, a Pi-based rig, or similar; bonus for breadth across more than one
Battery and thermal test methodology
Experience with sensor/IMU testing and creative physical test setups for connectivity/range