Principal Engineer I, Test (QA Lead)

HARMANs engineers and designers are creative purposeful and agile. As part of this team youll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day you will push the boundaries of creative design and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together youll discover that at HARMAN you can grow make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Automotive

Were a global multi-disciplinary team thats putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive we give you the keys to fast-track your career.

• Engineer audio systems and integrated technology platforms that augment the driving experience
• Combine ingenuity in-depth research and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence
• Advance in-vehicle infotainment safety efficiency and enjoyment.

About the Role

In this role you will help to shape and drive Harmans cloud-based automotive software development toolchains as part of Harmans broader software products portfolio.

You will lead a small team to ensure the highest quality of the toolchain product and perform the testing at scale via automation.

You will be responsible for ensuring the toolchain product meets the quality standards as required by Harman and customers.

You will be responsible for the continued transformation of HARMAN Automotive into a leading tech player in software. You are an inspiring leader for our global team and your global peers who show both the technical and business acumen to rapidly grow our product family and its corresponding business in a rapidly growing ecosystem.

Your Team: You will lead a small testing team plan their tasks and bring them to closure. You will not have any direct reports.

What You Will Do

• Your will continuously improve the quality of toolchain product by meticulous and automated testing at scale.
• You will focus to move majority testing of cockpit automotive software to cloud and automate it.
• You will focus to move entire testing of toolchain product to cloud and automate it.
• Create a test plan and test cases for various forms of testing like smoke sanity release regression stress testing etc.
• You will own and execute different forms of testing like smoke sanity release regression stress testing etc. for toolchain.
• You will lead a small team to ensure the quality of product is always maintained and continuously improved. You will also be responsible to maximize the output of this team.
• You will ensure an efficient integration of cloud-based testing into the CICD pipeline in order to reduce the overall development lead time (commit to releasable software)
• Always ensure efficient use of public cloud and strive to optimize cloud costs.
• You will design and implement a testing framework that is cloud based highly scalable and can enable parallel testing.
• Be up to date on latest cloud technologies and automotive industry trends. Should be able to adapt quickly to new technologies.

What You Need to Be Successful

• Bachelors degree in engineering or equivalent; BE with MBA would be preferred.
• 10-15 years of overall software validation experience
• At least 5-year experience in validating web-based SaaS applications.
• At least 5-year experience in validating automotive infotainment software.
• Experience in automating a test suite for web-based SaaS applications.
• Experience in automating a test suite for automotive infotainment software.
• Experience working with Azure public cloud.
• Experience in driving the test architecture starting from requirements to deployment.
• Exposure in Google Compliance Testing (CTS VTS STS ACTS etc)
• Familiar with CDD GAS and related test suites (like the Compatibility Test Suite)
• In-Depth understanding of -Requirement analysis - Test Case Creation - Test Case Execution - Sanity Test.
• Good understanding of development project cycle
• Good understanding of Continuous integration and deployment
• Good understanding of test Driven Development practices.
• Ability to solve the problem independently.
• Strong problem-solving skills and awareness of DevOps and Agile principles.
• Expertise in scripting languages like python Ruby
• Must bring top-notch management skills and a deep appreciation of development tools techniques systems and solutions.
• Demonstrate experience owning a feature from requirements analysis through to general availability in market. Should be a self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision and manage time effectively.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Testing knowledge of overall vehicle testing that includes other domains like vehicle chasis powertrain ADAS etc.
• Testing with Digital twin on cloud.
• Good experience in creating and generating testing data for testing scenarios that requires huge amount of data (like certain use cases of Autonomous driving)

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 25% domestic and international travel
• Be willing to work in various India locations

• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location
• Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL HARMAN Kardon AKG etc.)
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
• Competitive wellness benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Be Brilliant employee recognition and rewards program
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development

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HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard torace religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics.