Test Engineer with focus on Automation

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.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

Let's introduce ourselves

The Connected Experience organization within R&D includes Remote Functions, Connectivity and Car Cloud Platform, Infotainment Platform, Applications and Data & Diagnostics. Our vision and strategy are to maximize the attractiveness of owning and using a Volvo, make all cars connected and provide a continuously enhanced experience for both new and existing cars. 

Our Agile Release Train (ART) Remote Functions mission is to enable remote functions globally to contribute to the overall connected experience. We build, provide, and operate a highly secure run-time ecosystem for functions and applications serving our connected cars, and their users. We aim to optimize functional and organic growth by using cutting edge standards from Car Connectivity Consortium® together with cloud serives, the latest technology from phone OEMs and connectivity. This new way of using your phone as the key for your car will opens up for a new connected experience. The journey into the future starts here.


What you'll do

Are you a tech savvy tester in the automation domain with a long background in writing tests and planning test activities, a person who can see the big picture and dig into end-to-end testcases and who really enjoys adding quality on a solution level then read further and see the fantastic possibilities in this role. When we say testing we mean automation in our rigs, manual testing in the car and all in between.

As a Automation tester you will work close with our development teams including our current team of testers. You will be implementing and running tests of our embedded software with included in our CI. Our system is built on embedded software, hardware and wireless connecting to our cloud. And yes we will test on real mobile devices and cars as well. This role is a core competence in our future team build and you can expect a lot of fun in our journey towards the connected experience.


What you'll bring

We see that you have some background as automation tester both on hardware as well as software since this will be part of the tasks. Experience as developer and/or manual tester is preferred.  
We see that you have relevant education in test or development and at the same time really think that exploratory testing is an important way forward. Our field of development is very tech heavy but the test cases also need to be based in user experience.

In particular we are looking for this in your skillset
•    Test case execution
•    Result documentation
•    Test rig setup and testing 
•    Documented experience in automated testing and CI
•    Programming knowledge for creating automated tests
•    Python programming
•    Pipeline experience 
•    Experience from automotive
•    CAN bus experience 
•    Fault tracing and debugging experience

Personal qualities
•    Have a meticulous attitude
•    Have sense of time and being goal oriented
•    Good communication skills; the ability to share results verbally as well as in writing in a clear, concise manner to both technical specialists and people without technical knowledge
•    Strong collaboration skills
•    Structured and analytical way of taking on tasks and performing on a daily basis in a result oriented way