Senior Test Engineer

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.

Senior Test Engineer

What’s in it for you?
This role is within our Digital team, which is using a number of digital technologies to provide best tools and solutions so that Volvo Cars can provide proactive and effortless customer care for Volvo users.  We want to provide our global customers with a leading and effortless customer care experience and be there when they need us, across the channels our consumers prefer. That’s our mission.

You will be responsible for testing the products before they are launched, ensuring that we deliver highest quality of products to both our customers, partners, and internal users. We are using the Salesforce platform as a foundation for some of our products. In the future, we plan to build products possibly using other platforms and development tools.

The team is primarily located in Gothenburg, Stockholm Sweden, and we also have teams in the San Francisco US and in Shanghai China. Many of the people you will be working with have experience from start-ups and global tech companies such as Spotify, Google, Ericsson, Microsoft, Tradera, Klarna, EA Games etc.

You and Your Skills
We are looking for an experienced test engineer who has previously worked in agile product teams and has experience of working with more than one product/team at a time. You are experienced in creating test plans, test cases and test strategies while working with the QA, product, automation, devOps and development teams. You are a leader with a quality driven mindset and will motivate and encourage your peers to drive a quality practices.

You probably have a degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. You have a passion for quality and appreciate that QA is much more than testing.

What will you do?
You will work with the team to deliver QA across Product teams.
You will be working to establish QA practices, working closely with platform and CI/CD team to streamline deployment.
You take a key role in delivering quality of the product(s) for both functional and non-functional requirements.
Design test plans, procedures, scenarios, and scripts to accurately assess new products or software updates according to requirements and product vision.
Collaborate with the teams to set guidelines and requirements on the test practices and QA process.
Identify, analyze and create detailed records of problems that appear during testing, such as software defects, bugs, functionality issues, and output errors, and work directly with software developers to find solutions and develop retesting procedures.
Controlling and managing difficulties that arise in different projects during QA activities.
Executing test plans, and tests across different systems & environments.
Track problems, resolutions, and bug fixes throughout testing and create a comprehensive database of defects and successful mitigation techniques.
Provide QA insight, direction, strategy and hands-on assistance to other members of the team.
Identify the scope of the testing required for a particular release.
Create detailed, step-by-step documentation of test procedures for each phase or project as needed to ensure replicability, compliance with standards, and growth of company knowledge base.
Mentors other QA team members in best practices and adherence to overall testing strategy.
Drive greater automation test coverage throughout the product including GUI, API layers, services and database driven scripts.
Identifies metrics for monitoring and improving quality.
Provides guidance for performance test initiatives that take a true end-to-end focus on ensuring client side, server tiers, database and data integration jobs are performing as expected.
Communicate clearly and effectively with test personnel, users, developers, and clients to facilitate quick resolution of problems and accurate documentation of successes.
Ready to jump into different products, systems and teams when needed.

Here’s what we are looking for:
You have a strong understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes
You have hands on knowledge with Salesforce cloud solutions – marketing, sales & service. Salesforce certification is a plus
You will examine end-to-end processes in addition to backend testing, ensuring quality is embedded throughout
You have experience of working closely with the product teams and translating product requirements into detailed test plans and test cases.
You are an expert in implementing and executing test plans and test cases.
Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions, deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.
A good team player and communication skills