Test Lead

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.

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.

Test lead
What’s in it for you?
This role is within our Global Online Digital team, which is using digital technologies to reinvent the experience of becoming a Volvo customer. There is no reason the experience of buying a car should be painful and difficult – it should be as enjoyable and exciting as actually having a new car. That is our mission.  
 We create the end-to-end experience for online sales/subscriptions of cars, global campaigns as well as frameworks for other parts of Volvo cars. Your responsibilities will include rapid development of prototypes/concepts, and regular product development within Quality Engineering department.

You should have start-up experience where you have quickly developed prototypes and catalysed product development in a professional, fluid environment.  You are a hands-on test automation developer who enjoys Quality Engineering. You are experienced with agile development and are good with software development best practices.

What you'll do
 -Develop the QA & automation practices and strategies for our software development teams
 -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 in to different teams when needed

Work 50% in a product team QA and 50% as test lead!
You and your skills:
Good coding experience on at least two language from (Javascript, typescript, java, python, C#, Go, Scala)
Good object-oriented design and coding skills (Javascript preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform).
Exposure with test frameworks Webdriverio, Cypress, Protractor, TestNG
Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.
Coding experience with automation framework, tools and services for web. Experience in API testing.
Understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes.
Shows creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness.
Knowledge of perl,  bash or other scripting languages is a plus.
Good knowledge of build pipelines (you have yourself written different kinds of build pipelines)
Elastic search (KQL), Kibana, AWS, Azure experience is a plus

We think you share our vision for technology and software quality and have the desire to work closely with developers, business analysts, Agile leads and other quality analysts in high collaborative environment to create and prioritize Test plans.

As a person we think you are inspiring, motivating and moving the testing process forward in a positive and driven way. If you understand Continuous Delivery, experience from QA Lead or any other leadership skills we see them as desirable.