QA/Test Engineer

SpotLIGHT of the job:

As part of the Zumtobel Group, Tridonic Portugal is home to our growing Software Competence Center. Founded in 2019, our site in Vila Nova de Gaia hosts an expanding team of software engineers working on embedded intelligence for smart lighting.

To strengthen our compliance and verification capability, we are looking for a QA/Test Engineer with a strong standards-driven mindset: someone who can interpret technical norms , translate them into testable requirements , and provide objective evidence for i nternal quality gates and external certifications.

Responsibilities:

• Drive internal compliance approvals from applicable IEC/EN standards and internal specifications: review designs and releases against standards, identify nonconformities, and coordinate corrective/preventive actions with R&D (hardware, firmware, systems).
• Maintain compliance matrices that map standard clauses to product requirements, test cases, and objective evidence; ensure end-to-end traceability.
• Perform failure analysis and root-cause investigations using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and standard lab equipment; communicate findings clearly and pragmatically.
• Analyze and challenge existing test flows ; identify weaknesses and drive improvements with critical insight and structured thinking.
• Support interactions with external laboratories and certification bodies (technical clarifications, witness testing preparation, evidence packaging).
• Collaborate with R&D engineers to ensure test coverage aligns with technical specifications and real-world use cases.
• Generate detailed test reports and documentation for certification and compliance.
• Propose, implement, and maintain code and tools that support automated and continuous testing.

Skills & Experience:

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements. Your motivation and potential matter more than perfection:

• A degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Solid experience in embedded system testing and test automation.
• Proven experience in QA, verification/validation, compliance engineering, or test engineering for embedded systems and electronic products in a lab environment
• Strong ability to read, interpret, and apply technical standards; comfortable turning normative text into clear, testable requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Solid documentation and traceability skills: test plans, procedures, compliance matrices, deviation handling, and change impact assessments.
• Hands-on hardware debug competence: oscilloscope measurements, probing, and signal integrity basics, and structured troubleshooting.
• Strong critical thinking skills and a proactive, improvement-oriented mindset.
• Bonus points for experience with DALI.
• Effective communication skills and a strong sense of collaboration in cross-functional teams.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

What we offer:

• Flexible working hours.
• Lunch Vouchers.
• Private Health Insurance.
• Transport Subsidy: Financial support to cover commuting costs for employees.