Test Lead – Embedded Systems & Test Automation

Roles & Responsibilities

Test Leadership & Strategy

•                    Lead end-to-end test strategy for multiple parallel projects/releases (system, integration, E2E).

•                    Own test planning, estimation, scheduling, and reporting across teams; drive risk-based testing.

•                    Define quality gates, acceptance criteria, and release readiness metrics (coverage, defect trends, stability).

•                    Coordinate with PO/Scrum Master, development, DevOps, and stakeholders to align quality goals.

 

Automation Frameworks & Execution

•                    Drive automation roadmap: what to automate, when to automate, and how to keep it maintainable.

•                    Hands-on contribution to automation (review + development) for embedded and HMI/Web layers.

•                    Establish coding standards, branching strategy, test design patterns, logging, and reporting.

•                    Mentor test engineers; perform code reviews and enforce reliability and repeatability of automation.

 

Embedded Linux & Embedded RTOS System Testing

•                    Lead system validation for Embedded Linux firmware/applications and Embedded RTOS components.

•                    Validate system services, networking configurations, IPC mechanisms, security aspects, and performance.

•                    Plan and execute regression, stress, endurance, and stability tests on real hardware.

•                    Guide test approach for drivers/kernel modules (Linux) and real-time behaviour (RTOS), including timing and resource constraints.

 

HMI / Web Application Validation

•                    Validate UI/UX consistency, responsiveness, and functional workflows on device-hosted HMI.

•                    Automate web testing using Selenium / Robot Framework (or similar), integrated with system test runs.

•                    Validate communication paths between HMI and backend services using REST APIs, WebSockets, MQTT/ZMQ.

 

CI/CD Pipelines & Quality Gates (Jenkins / GitHub Actions)

•                    Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated test execution (smoke, regression, nightly).

•                    Integrate test automation with Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions (YAML), including artifacts, logs, and reports.

•                    Implement pipeline gating (PR checks, required workflows) and automated notifications.

•                    Ensure test environments are reproducible (Python venv, dependency pinning, containers if needed).

 

Test Environment, Tools & Defect Management

• Own test environment readiness: hardware availability, flashing/deployment steps, data, credentials, and tooling.
• Define defect triage process and SLAs; lead RCA for escaped defects and recurring issues.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, automation coverage, and defects.
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• Role: Test Lead – Embedded Systems & Test Automation
• Experience: 8+ years

Key Skills & Experience

•                    5+ years in QA/Test Engineering with at least 3–5 years leading teams/projects.

•                    Strong hands-on experience in Embedded Linux system testing and automation.

•                    Strong exposure to Embedded RTOS testing (timing, concurrency, resource constraints, real-time behaviour).

•                    Python expertise for automation (framework development, utilities, API/system validation scripts).

•                    CI/CD experience: Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions, pipeline design, gating, reporting.

 

 

•                    Web/API validation experience: REST APIs, WebSockets; MQTT/ZMQ exposure is a plus.

•                    Good understanding of networking, IPC, security validation, performance, and stability testing.

•                    Experience working with real embedded hardware; HIL exposure is a plus.

•                    Test management: planning, estimation, stakeholder reporting, mentoring, and delivery ownership.

•                    Tooling: Jenkins/GitHub Actions for CI/CD + quality gates; Git + Jira for PR/defect workflow and traceability.

 

Preferred Qualifications

•                    Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science / Electronics / Embedded Systems (or related).

•                    Experience in Industrial IoT / Energy Storage / Automotive embedded systems is a plus.

•                    Exposure to Yocto / Buildroot / embedded Linux distributions is beneficial.

•                    Exposure to Embedded C/C++ (for debugging, logs, and root-cause analysis).