Testing Engineer

Testing Engineer

Garmin Jyväskylä is a leading provider of physiological health, fitness and performance insights. Founded as Firstbeat Analytics in 2002, our legacy extends back to the early days of heart rate monitoring GPS sports watches. Our innovative contributions to the wearable industry include Training Status, Training Load, Aerobic and Anaerobic Training Effect feedback, Recovery Time, All-day Stress, Body Battery, and the Sleep Solution. Garmin Jyväskylä employs a multidisciplinary team of software engineers, physiologists, data scientists, user experience and communication experts.

The software team is the core of Garmin Jyväskylä's R&D efforts, delivering new features and solutions that Garmin users have come to know and love. We work closely with Data Science and other R&D teams, turning physiological research and UX visions into embedded libraries that bring algorithms to life in software running on wearable devices.

We are looking for Testing Engineer to support our testing efforts, by being the point of contact between testers and Garmin development teams, providing them with insight about the features to be tested, supporting them with all aspects of Garmin device usage (including installation of test builds) and collecting feedback from testers to help improve Garmin products.

Main responsibilities

Main interface between external testers and Garmin Jyväskylä Development teams

Test device pool management

Publishing test releases, uploading builds to alpha testers, and making build announcements

Gathering feedback and alpha tester inputs, and reporting internally to the project management, physiology, and software teams

Ownership of the resolution process for issues reported by external testers

What we look for in a candidate

Must have good interpersonal skills

Ability to work independently

Good oral and written communication skills in English and Finnish

Experience with issue tracking systems (JIRA)

Availability to work at t