# QA Engineering Placement (Audio & MIDI Hardware, Software, Firmware Testing)

**Company**: The Focusrite Group
**Location**: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £26250 pa
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic intern to join our Quality Assurance team for a 12-month placement and help us test the next generations of our industry leading audio interfaces.

You’ll work closely with the rest of the QA Team, and other members of the Engineering Department, including Product and Project Managers, as well as Hardware, Software and Firmware Developers.

Key activities include:

- Supporting our existing users with testing for maintenance updates, as well as ensuring on-going compatibility with third party software and hardware releases

- Performing functional, non-functional, and exploratory testing on new products under development

- Helping to keep our automated test rigs running, responding to any issues with our systems to maximise uptime and test coverage

- Analysing test results and logs, including those from our automated test-runs, reporting any issues/patterns to the appropriate development teams

- Helping to validate that new technologies and product concepts are fit for purpose

An ideal candidate is likely to be:

- Working towards a degree-level qualification in science, engineering, technology, or related discipline

- Interested in quality, and able to appreciate what this means in practice to our users

- A clear communicator, methodical and rigorous, with a logical approach to problem solving

- Familiar with computers, and the use of Command Line Interfaces. Basic scripting ability and an interest in programming would also be an advantage

- Passionate and knowledgeable about music, audio technology

Our placements are very popular, and that’s mainly because you can really get stuck in during your year with us. We pay you £26250 per year, and you get to share some of the same benefits as our permanent employees.

## Skills

### Required
- science
- engineering
- technology
- Command Line Interfaces
- scripting
- programming
- music
- audio technology

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