Test Engineer

About the job
This role is within our Digital team, which is using a number 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.
You And Your Skills
We are looking for an experienced QA Engineer/Tester who has previously worked in agile product teams. You collaborate across different roles to ensure quality is thoughtfully examined in both processes and technology.
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 either be part of a product team.
You will be working to establish test and automation strategies and practices, working closely with platform and CI/CD team to further streamline deployment.
You take a bigger role for overall quality of the product, both functional and non-functional requirements like performance and security.
Write tools and libraries which can be used by other QA/devOps engineers
In collaboration with the agile teams set the guidelines and requirements on the test practices in the development process
Building a path for successful cooperation between testers of different levels
Controlling and managing difficulties that arise in different projects during testing related activities
Take on leadership responsibilities and influence the direction of the automation effort, and its schedule and prioritization.
Provide technical leadership, direction, strategy and hands-on assistance to other members of the team
Identify the scope of the testing required for a particular release.
Release plan for each release visible for everyone.
Mentors other QA team members in test automation 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 increased performance and scalability.
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.
Troubleshoots performance, load, and stress testing through analysis of system design/coding.
Ready to jump into different teams when needed



Here’s what we are looking for:
You have a solid understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes
You have a strong exposure to various test frameworks Selenium, Webdriverio, Cypress, Protractor, TestNG
You have good programming skills in any one of the languages (Javascript, typescript, java, python, C#, Go, Scala) and a good understanding of Object Oriented Programming
You will examine end-to-end processes in addition to backend testing, ensuring quality is embedded throughout
You have experience with Agile, code management and deployment strategies
Experience working on low-code platforms like Salesforce is a plus
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


Who are we?


Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them.


Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.