Ford Motor Company

Senior Software Tester

Ford Motor Company$100K — $120K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in Software/Requirements Verification projects.
  • 5+ years of experience implementing and designing test strategies.
  • Deep understanding of Software Quality Assurance standards (ASPICE, ISTQB, etc.).
  • Proven expertise with automation tools and strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and execution of test methods and automation scripts for infotainment audio verification.
  • Conduct incident triage and root cause analysis, designing preventive actions.
  • Utilize Test Management tools for planning, monitoring, and reporting test results.
  • Perform audio feature testing in complex multi-ECU setups.
  • Manage defects through defect management tools, ensuring resolution tracking.
  • Promote code quality and security standards as well as best practices.
  • Apply industry software quality standards actively during testing.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave programs.
  • Tuition assistance and extensive family building benefits.
  • Employee vehicle discount programs for employees and families.
  • Active employee resource groups and community service leave.
  • Generous paid holiday schedule including the week between Christmas and New Year.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In the position of Senior Software Tester, you will lead our efforts in the delivery of high quality Infotainment software experiences for our customers. The person in this software test position is passionate about the validation and verification of new Infotainment features and solutions.

As a Senior Software Tester, the candidate will be required to understand product requirements and implement test coverage to validate production software. They will be responsible for designing, automating, maintaining, and executing software tests for high profile products. They will be able to perform testing in complex multi-ECU test setups or test vehicle. Working closely with software development as part of an agile scrum team will be required.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

The primary responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to:
  • Lead the design, planning, and execution of test methods and automation scripts for infotainment audio requirements verification purposes.
  • Lead incidents triage (contributing to Risk assessment definition), performs root cause analysis, and Designs Preventive Actions.
  • Use Test Management tools for test planning creation, execution, monitoring (proficient key metrics interpretation for Test Strategy definition), and reporting of Test Results.
  • Perform testing of audio features in multi-ECU test setups or test vehicles.
  • Use defect management tools for defect creation, and monitoring resolution.
  • Proven expert with Automation tools & strategies, contributing to development of automated tests.
  • Follow and promote code artisanship best practices, quality and security standards; and contributes to the improvement of them.
  • Understand and apply industry Software Quality Assurance standards (ASPICE, ISTQB, ASAM, INCOSE, etc.)


Qualifications

You'll have...

Education
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, applicable degree, or equivalent work experience.

Experience
  • 8+ years of advanced professional experience with Software / Requirements Verifications projects (Test Suite and Automation solutions for multiple Verification / Validation scopes & Integration levels).
  • 5+ years of professional experience implementing test strategies and designing test strategies.


Even better, you may have...

Education
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, applicable degree, or equivalent work experience.


Experience
  • Extensive Experience on Requirements Engineering or Electrical Architecture or Software Architectures or Functional Architectures.
  • Software configuration management systems (source control, DevSecOps, CI/CD) and proposes enhancements based on Verification perspective.
  • Experience with multiple tech stacks and the verification of its functions including QNX, and Android Automotive.
  • Effectively lead agile teams by following agile practices with Internal Software Design Verification groups, as well as Tier I and Tier II (external suppliers).
  • Demonstrated success creating evolutionary Design Verification architectures and Automation Frameworks with appropriate operational characteristics: scale, reliability, security, performance, Functional, Release, etc.
  • Experience in modern software development methodology, such as pair programming, test-first/test-driven development OR demonstrated delivery of singular focus programming.


You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 7-8.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #LI-LB1

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Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Net Income
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Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
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