Test Lead – Embedded Systems & Test Automation

Job description

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. 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). Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited is a 100% owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH, one of the world's leading global supplier of technology and services, offering end-to-end Engineering, IT and Business Solutions. With over 27,000+ associates, it’s the largest software development center of Bosch, outside Germany, indicating that it is the Technology Powerhouse of Bosch in India with a global footprint and presence in the US, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.