Test Engineer

Let's create the future together

At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for safe, sustainable and convenient mobility. Want to join us? 

The Connected Experience organization within R&D includes Remote Functions, Connectivity and Car Cloud Platform, Infotainment Platform, Applications and Data & Diagnostics. Our vision and strategy are to maximize the attractiveness of owning and using a Volvo, make all cars connected and provide a continuously enhanced experience for both new and existing cars. 

Our Agile Release Train (ART) Remote Functions mission within the Department Car Cloud Platform and Remote Functions is to enable remote functions globally to contribute to the overall connected experience. We build, provide, and operate a highly secure run-time ecosystem for functions and applications serving our connected cars, and their users. We aim to optimize functional and organic growth by using cutting edge standards from Car Connectivity Consortium® together with cloud serives, the latest technology from phone OEMs and connectivity. This new way of using your phone as the key for your car will opens up for a new connected experience. The journey into the future starts here.

What you’ll do

In the new domain of digital key and approach the phone will become the primary key for your car. This will of course in turn make it crucial that quality and stability is top notch.

Are you a tech savvy tester with a long background in performing tests and planning test activities, is a person who can see the big picture and dig into end-to-end testcases and really enjoys adding quality on a solution level then read further and see the fantastic possibilities in this role. When we say testing we mean automation and manual testing in rig.

As a Tester you will work close with our development teams including our current team of testers. You will be performing testing of our embedded software with automated testing included in our CI. Our system is built on embedded software, hardware and wireless connecting to our cloud. And yes we will test on real mobile devices and cars as well. The test scenarios are… well you tell us if you are up for it. We have not even talked about the approach scenarios which will be our next fun part in development. This role is a core competence in our future team build and you can expect a lot of fun in our journey towards the connected experience.

The role might include travelling so this should be expected.

What you’ll bring

We see that you have some background as manual and/or automation tester both on hardware as well as software since this will be part of the tasks.

We see that you have relevant education in test or development and at the same time really think that exploratory testing is an important way forward. Our field of development is very tech heavy but the test cases also need to be based in user experience.

In particular, you will work with the following tasks

• Test case execution
• Result documentation
• Test rig setup and testing
• Knowledge and interest in automated testing and CI
• Programming knowledge for creating automated tests
• Being part of the change ahead
• Experience from automotive

Personal qualities

• Have a meticulous attitude

• Have sense of time and being goal oriented

• Good communication skills; the ability to share results verbally as well as in writing in a clear, concise manner to both technical specialists and people without technical knowledge

• Strong collaboration skills

• Structured and analytical way of taking on tasks and performing on a daily basis in a result oriented way

Want to know more? We hope so

We’d love to receive and review your application. If you want more information about the role and its responsibilities or simply learn a bit more about the team, please reach out to the hiring manager at peter.nyberg.2@volvocars.com  or the recruiter at thabsheera.kadheejas@volvocars.com

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.