Quality Assurance Engineer

We’re creating our own future 

At Volvo Cars, we are making bold digital visions come true. We aim to be the leader in the automotive world by creating a digital ecosystem built around making our customers' lives less complicated. What we all have in common at Volvo Cars is our passion for protecting lives, our endless curiosity, and our dedication to create a new future for the automotive industry. Our human centric focus is what separates us from all other car companies.

What we offer
This role is within our Global Online Engineering team, which has the goal to provide digital technologies to support online car sales and solutions globally. You will be part of the Learn and Shop cluster with the goal to support our best in class digital online sales systems.
 

Main responsibilities

You will work with the team to deliver QA through the development and release cycle with your team. You will be working to establish QA practices, working closely with dev, platform, and CI/CD teams. You take a key role in delivering quality of the product(s) for both functional and non-functional requirements.

• Designing test plans, procedures, scenarios, and scripts to accurately assess new products or software updates according to requirements and product vision.
• Identify, analyze, and create detailed records of problems that appear during testing, such as software defects, bugs, functionality issues, and output errors, and work directly with software developers to find solutions and develop retesting procedures.

• Controlling and managing difficulties that arise in different projects during QA activities
• Executing test plans, and tests across different systems & environments.
• Track problems, resolutions, and bug fixes throughout testing and create a comprehensive database of defects and successful mitigation techniques.
• Providing QA insight, direction, strategy and hands-on assistance to other members of the team.
• Identify the scope of the testing required for a particular release.
• Creating detailed, step-by-step documentation of test procedures for each phase or project as needed to ensure replicability, compliance with standards, and growth of company knowledge base.
• Providing 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.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with test personnel, users, developers, and clients to facilitate quick resolution of problems and accurate documentation of successes.

Do you fit the profile?

• You have a strong understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes
• You have hands on knowledge with Salesforce cloud solutions – marketing, sales & service.
• You will examine end-to-end processes in addition to backend testing, ensuring quality is embedded throughout
• You have experience of working closely with the product teams and translating product requirements into detailed test plans and test cases.
• You are an expert in implementing and executing test plans and test cases.
• Experience working on low-code platforms like Salesforce is a plus
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions, deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.
• A good team player and communication skills
• Experience with agile scrum for at least 1 year.
• Automation experience with Java Script and Webdriver IO
• Experience with Azure Devops and API Testing with Postman or another tool

Who you are and what you believe in

• Embraces We Culture
  • You are customer focused and have a solution-oriented mindset
  • You excel in collaboration, both with internal and external stakeholders, and are passionate about building a work environment based on trust
• Curious
  • You are passionate about software development and you have an interest in staying up to date with new technologies
  • You are self-propelled and have an innovative and creative mind
• Agile Mindset
  • You have a strong belief in agile ways of working especially in accordance with SAFe
  • You are flexible, open to new ideas and have a strong focus on continuous improvement
• Communication
  • You are an avid communicator, and are fluent in both spoken and written English
  • You can build compelling and interesting presentations supporting your ideas
  • You manage stakeholder expectations at various levels with ease
  • You navigate confidently in a multi-cultural environment

Who are we?

Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them. 

Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.