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.

Qualifications

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).