Software Engineer 1

HireSetu's note

The instrumentation background carries weight

Emerson asks for a Bachelor's in Instrumentation Engineering as the preferred qualification, and the rest of the requirements point the same way. If you have configured transmitters, valves or field devices in a plant or college lab, that experience matters more here than another coding project. You should be comfortable with flow, level, temperature, pressure and control valves as physical equipment, because the testing is about how those devices integrate and present themselves in a system.

A software tester from an IT background can learn the tools, but the first month will be heavy: protocol basics, device setup, wiring and the way AMS and DeltaV expose device data. If your CV has only web or app testing, this is a hard pivot. If you have a process automation internship, put the device models and protocols you touched near the top.

Bench setups and issue logs

The working week revolves around test benches: connecting devices, setting them up, checking the eDD screens and usability in DeltaV/AMS, then repeating the checks across protocols and handhelds. It is slow, detailed work. A device that passes one test can fail the next because a parameter, firmware version or system build changed.

Write down what you tested and what failed in a way someone else can reproduce. Test plans and issue logs are the visible output of the job, and vague entries waste everyone's time. Ask which system version and protocol you will start on, since the test setup changes with both.

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