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Job Purpose:
To own and be responsible for manual, automation testing, integration of all infotainment components and overall maintenance of the rigs and test vehicles.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Manage the internal and external testing and integration team for multiple programs/projects.
- Decide on make vs buy decisions to complete the testing activities required for all projects.
- Manage the DVP activities for all product launches.
- Collaborate with other test team, feature owners, component owners and cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize test planning, execution for various internal and external milestones.
- Build, develop, and mentor a team of high-performance automation engineers utilizing best practices and tools.
- Contribute (hands on experience) and manage automation framework and automated test execution of infotainment vehicle level features.
- Perform all necessary vehicle testing (hardware and functional) to guarantee product acceptance for mass production
- Support and plan test strategy, test drives across markets.
- Ensure all necessary reports, presentations, or technical documents are documented to explain and/or make a record of the development activities
- Research and improve our internal test capability of the infotainment team overtime.
Qualification & Experience:
- CAN tools – CANoE
- Understanding of LIN/CAN/Automotive Ethernet
- Understanding of electronics/software and hardware design & EDS
- Automation toolsets, framework and programming& – Eg: NI Teststand, Python etc.
- Data analysis & report writing
- Significant experience in delivering Infotainment modules and managing a testing team.
- Experience of vehicle level system integration in terms of hardware and Software). Experience of software development processes and managing software delivery.
- Experience of validating infotainment systems, Navigation, Bluetooth and Media devices, Tuner and Infotainment HMI. Delivery experience on Infotainment OS system (windows, Linux, QNX, etc.).
- Extensive knowledge of automotive development systems and test framework.
- Supplier management experience desirable
- Complete knowledge of Product Development cycle from concept to launch completion
- Knowledge of automotive quality tools and processes.
- Electrical engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent degree
Behaviours:
- Collaboration – builds & maintains effective relationships within own function as well as across departments. Collaborates within teams to achieve goals. Team player with ‘can-do' attitude.
- Customer focus – always focuses on high attention to detail & demonstrates accuracy in their work.
- Communication – ensures communication has a clear purpose, is factual, accurate & provided at the right time. Proactively shares information with colleagues & stakeholders. Excellent written communication skills for report writing & concerns raising. Able to verbally communicate at all levels. Able to clearly and concisely explain status to upper management
- Commitment – takes ownership of objectives, work activities & behavior, & makes informed decisions backed by data. Commits to deadlines & achieving milestones Strong time management, ability to balance and prioritise multiple tasks to meet customer needs.
- Continuously challenge & improve – takes initiative & uses data to challenge traditional ways of thinking & improve processes & working practices. Challenges design engineering to improve system performance.
- Competent in infotainment Validation & Automation
- Competent in Confluence and JIRA toolset
- Competent in Microsoft Office toolset.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels
- Confident presenter
- Microsoft project experience is desirable
- Strategic thinking
- Must be able to project manage and work collaboratively with a cross-functional team.
- Knowledge of Can and CAN based tools
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