System Test And Validation Engineer

Position Title: System Test and Validation Engineer

Duration: Contract

Location: Gaydon

Duties

• Our Client are looking for a driven and passionate System Test and Validation Engineer to join them in developing a truly exciting and forward‑thinking product-one you can believe in, advocate for, and take pride in delivering.
• This role sits at the heart of our connected car platform, which underpins our luxury vehicles and delivers seamless digital experiences to their customers.
• You will take ownership of validating system features that enable this platform, ensuring high quality, robustness, and a defect‑free user experience from concept through to delivery.
• You will play a key role in shaping validation strategies and continuously improving test processes, with a strong focus on automation, reuse of existing test assets, and leveraging established validation practices across the business.
• Working on their current technology landscape, you’ll be part of an ambitious transformation‑evolving today’s features into next‑generation digital capabilities that will help take the Client into a new digital era and support their journey toward a carbon‑neutral fleet this decade.
• In short, the Client are seeking someone with a genuine passion for the automotive industry-an engineer who is confident making decisions, takes ownership, and operates independently without reliance on escalation or close supervision.
• You will join a highly collaborative, non‑hierarchical team culture that lives our company values and is united by a shared goal: delivering exceptional, innovative features for our customers.
• Creating detailed test plans to align with software release plans.
• Leading the test team, setting priorities and monitoring progress of test plans.
• Designing test cases and scenarios to ensure requirement coverage.
• Review test artifacts to ensure quality and consistency of test cases, test scripts and test reports.
• Driving the test execution and reporting test results.
• End to end testing on vehicles to ensure feature has achieved delivery maturity.
• Tracking defects and liaising with both internal and external teams to ensure timely resolution

Skills

• Test strategy and test planning at system level with focus on real‑world usage scenarios and failure modes.
• Defect Lifecycle management.
• Strong hands‑on understanding of automotive architecture and protocols like CAN, Ethernet (SomeIP/DoIP)
• Experience in using logging and measurement tools like Vector CANoe, Intrepid, etc.
• Vehicle and test rig level experience including flashing ECUs.
• Understanding of automotive systems, practices and procedures

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