JOB SUMMARYThe Test Engineer III develops, executes, and improves verification and validation activities for ASI's autonomous wheel loader platforms. This role translates system requirements, customer workflows, and heavy-equipment operating scenarios into structured test plans, procedures, test cases, and measurable acceptance criteria covering integrated hardware, software, sensors, vehicle controls, hydraulics, implements, and autonomous functionality.
As a Level III engineer within ASI's five-level engineering structure, this position independently owns moderately complex testing assignments from planning through execution, analysis, traceability, and reporting while receiving guidance on broader program-level validation strategy. This role also serves as a strong Jama Connect user and team resource, helping maintain accurate requirements, test cases, verification evidence, review workflows, baselines, and traceability between system requirements and validation results.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES- Develop and execute verification and validation plans for autonomous wheel loader systems, subsystems, and software features
- Translate system requirements, customer workflows, and operational use cases into measurable test objectives, acceptance criteria, and validation evidence
- Create detailed test procedures, test cases, checklists, data-collection plans, and technical test reports
- Independently own moderately complex testing assignments from initial planning through final documentation and issue closure
- Maintain Jama Connect requirements, test cases, verification links, review items, baselines, and traceability for assigned validation work
- Ensure test activities and results remain traceable to system requirements, interface requirements, safety requirements, and customer acceptance criteria
- Support Jama review workflows, requirement updates, test-case organization, exports, reports, dashboards, and change-impact reviews
- Partner with systems engineering, software, electrical, mechanical, perception, GNC, reliability, and field teams to maintain clear requirement-to-test-to-evidence traceability
- Develop test scenarios involving autonomous navigation, loading, material handling, bucket control, digging, carrying, dumping, stockpile interaction, truck loading, route execution, and work-area behavior
- Validate autonomous vehicle behavior across loading zones, stockpiles, haul paths, dump locations, intersections, slopes, confined areas, and uneven terrain
- Conduct functional, performance, integration, regression, endurance, and system-level testing
- Test steering, propulsion, braking, speed control, path tracking, stopping accuracy, implement control, hydraulic behavior, and vehicle stability
- Evaluate system performance under varying payloads, material types, grades, surface conditions, traction levels, speeds, and environmental conditions
- Validate autonomous capabilities involving localization, navigation, perception, obstacle avoidance, route compliance, communications, vehicle control, and task execution
- Test vehicle responses to personnel, equipment, vehicles, obstacles, geofences, changing conditions, and unexpected events within active work areas
- Develop representative work cycles, duty cycles, endurance scenarios, and customer-use scenarios for wheel loader validation
- Conduct testing using simulation, recorded-data replay, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, laboratory, shop, and full-vehicle environments
- Configure test vehicles, payload conditions, instrumentation, sensors, software, logging systems, and supporting equipment
- Collect and organize vehicle logs, system data, measurements, photographs, videos, and other objective test evidence
- Analyze vehicle, autonomy, hydraulic, sensor, implement, and control data to identify performance limitations and unexpected behavior
- Evaluate test results against requirements, specifications, performance targets, and established acceptance criteria
- Document defects clearly and communicate technical findings to engineering and project teams
- Reproduce reported issues involving vehicle control, bucket operation, hydraulic response, localization, perception, route execution, loading, dumping, or material-handling behavior
- Support cross-functional troubleshooting, failure investigations, and root cause analysis activities
- Verify corrective actions through targeted testing, regression testing, and issue-closure activities
- Develop scripts and tools to improve test automation, data processing, visualization, reporting, and repeatability
- Support requirements reviews, design reviews, test-readiness reviews, system-readiness reviews, and release-readiness assessments
- Coordinate testing activities with engineers, field testers, equipment operators, customers, and project stakeholders
- Support customer demonstrations, field deployments, operational acceptance testing, and on-site troubleshooting
- Follow company, customer, and site-specific safety requirements while testing autonomous and heavy-equipment systems
- Contribute to improvements in testing standards, Jama workflows, test procedures, documentation, tools, and team practices
ESSENTIAL EDUCATION, WORK EXPERIENCE, JOB SKILLS- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field
- Typically five or more years of experience in test engineering, verification and validation, systems integration, product testing, or a related engineering role
- Strong experience using Jama Connect for requirements management, test-case management, traceability, reviews, baselines, reporting, and verification evidence
- Experience developing and executing test plans for complex hardware and software integrated systems
- Experience translating technical requirements and operational scenarios into test procedures and measurable acceptance criteria
- Experience conducting functional, integration, regression, performance, endurance, or system-level testing
- Ability to independently plan, coordinate, execute, and document moderately complex testing assignments
- Experience analyzing test data, system logs, and technical results to identify failures and performance limitations
- Strong troubleshooting skills involving integrated mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, software, sensor, and vehicle systems
- Experience with test instrumentation, data-acquisition equipment, diagnostic tools, or vehicle logging systems
- Strong understanding of requirements traceability, defect management, configuration control, verification evidence, and product-development lifecycles
- Experience using Python, MATLAB, C++, Excel, or comparable tools for test automation and data analysis
- Experience working in Linux-based environments
- Ability to read and interpret system requirements, electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, hydraulic diagrams, software interfaces, and technical documentation
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to producing accurate, repeatable, traceable, and objective test evidence
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively with engineering, field, operations, customer-facing, and project teams
- Ability to travel and work in laboratory, shop, customer, and outdoor field-testing environments
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Experience testing wheel loaders, construction equipment, mining vehicles, agricultural equipment, industrial machinery, or other off-road heavy equipment
- Familiarity with loading, digging, carrying, dumping, stockpile management, truck loading, material handling, grading support, or site-preparation workflows
- Understanding of wheel loader dynamics, hydraulic systems, bucket control, payload effects, braking systems, or off-road vehicle controls
- Experience validating autonomous systems on slopes, haul roads, loose surfaces, uneven terrain, confined work areas, or active construction and mining sites
- Experience testing autonomous vehicles, robotics systems, embedded systems, or vehicle-control platforms
- Familiarity with ROS, ROS2, or comparable robotics middleware
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, simulation, or recorded-data replay testing
- Experience testing perception, GNC, localization, navigation, vehicle-control, implement-control, or embedded-software systems
- Familiarity with cameras, LiDAR, radar, GPS/GNSS, IMUs, encoders, or other robotic sensing technologies
- Experience with CAN communication, embedded controllers, vehicle-control units, hydraulic controllers, drive-by-wire systems, or heavy-equipment interfaces
- Experience developing automated test scripts, data-analysis tools, or test frameworks
- Experience helping teams improve Jama structures, requirement quality, traceability models, review processes, or verification workflows
- Familiarity with Jira, TestRail, Polarion, Confluence, PLM systems, or comparable requirements and test-management systems
- Experience supporting failure analysis, root cause analysis, FMEA, or reliability testing
- Familiarity with functional safety concepts and validation practices for autonomous or safety-critical systems
- Experience supporting customer demonstrations, field deployments, or operational acceptance testing
BENEFITSASI offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:
- 401k with employer match
- Generous HSA contribution
- PTO, paid holidays, and flextime
- ASI covers 90% of employee medical plan costs
