Software Engr II at Honeywell

Provides ownership of Test Strategy & Product Quality across different Fire product lines.

Your role will also include overseeing, supervising and reviewing tasks performed by team members to ensure effective execution of work; managing end‑to‑end processes and projects for both internal and external clients with responsibility for timely and accurate delivery; issuing clear instructions and directions to team members on tasks to be performed; and mentoring and guiding junior colleagues to support their skill development, professional growth, and overall success

Education / Qualifications and Experience

• Masters of Engineering in Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical, Instrumentation or Mechanical
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in project engineering/testing in relevant industry space

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Gets involved in Requirement reviews to ensure completeness of Deployment scenarios, Use cases & Testability aspects of Functional & Non-Functional requirements using his/her Domain, Product & Functional Test knowledge.
• Works within the scrum team to build the quality product along with development team
• Develops/Contribute Acceptance Criteria and test cases for stories and verifies the product against acceptance criteria.
• Develops Test Design for critical modules of the products and supports the Test Engineers in Test Design reviews
• Works with the System Architect to mitigate the architectural risks of the program in early phases & participates in design reviews to identify failure modes
• Develops Test Strategy to validate the Functional, Non-Functional & System level requirements for Cloud/Mobile/Big data related products
• Derives Regression Test Strategy based on Impact Analysis of fixed defects
• Prepares Test Strategy for 3rd party integrations & dependant OS, browser, database compatibility tests
• Maintains test infrastructure for security, performance/scale, usability testing of software products.
• Develops the Test effort estimates & works together with the Project Lead to do Test Planning
• Develops automation scripts and supports continuous integration and delivery/deployment along with development team
• Identifies Test Automation & Simulation requirements early in the life cycle & supports in execution of the same
• Works with the Program Manager & Product Manager or Product Owner to identify Beta Site requirements & supports in defect prioritization & release readiness reviews along with the Project Lead
• Works with the Information Development team to give pointers on Technical Literature content development and is a critical reviewer of the same
• Provides debug support to Development Team to identify root causes of defects
• Monitor release quality criteria and communicate unbiased product quality view to stakeholders to enable quality release of the product/system
• Mentors other member of the team on technical aspects.

Business Acumen

• Participates in Observation Voice of Customer (OVoC) and in Concept reviews in early phases of Product Development Life Cycle as needed
• Stays up to date with happenings in the Industry & Competition space of the relevant business verticals and driving best practices.

Technical Skills

• Should have hands on experience in installing, commissioning or maintenance of fire alarm system also should have used commissioning software tools to commission Fire Alarm Control Panels (FACP).
• Experience of testing electrical circuits or components for proper functioning & Inspect equipment to locate or identify faults.
• Should be aware of fire alarm standards EN54, NFPA-72, UL ,BS7273,SIL etc
• Should have knowledge of PA/VA system and wireless technology.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub, Copilot)
• Exposure to some of the Honeywell brand fire alarm systems (Notifier, Fire-Lite, Silent Knight, Gamewell, Gent, Morley, Esser) is an added advantage.
• Should have worked on some of these suppression systems like FAAST, VESDA etc
• Exposure BACnet gateway, MOD bus is an added advantage.
• Should be capable of understanding the requirements and design test cases.
• Should be capable of working with marketing, research and development team to detect defects and resolving them in the product.
• Should have good understanding of Agile methodologies and SDLC/STLC process
• Exposure to Acceptance Test Driven development (ATDD)
• Should have hands on experience on developing automation scripts
• Prior experience on performance & Capacity testing of applications is a plus.
• Test Certification- ISTQB or equivalent, Scrum Alliance
• Experience of CMMi or other process evaluation regime.