Test Lead – Embedded Systems & Test Automation

Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited is a 100% owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH, one of the world's leading global supplier of technology and services, offering end-to-end Engineering, IT and Business Solutions. With over 27,000+ associates, it’s the largest software development center of Bosch, outside Germany, indicating that it is the Technology Powerhouse of Bosch in India with a global footprint and presence in the US, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Test Environment, Tools & Defect Management

Own test environment readiness: hardware availability, flashing/deployment steps, data, credentials, and tooling.

Define defect triage process and SLAs; lead RCA for escaped defects and recurring issues.

Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, automation coverage, and defects.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end test strategy for multiple parallel projects/releases (system, integration, E2E).; Own test planning, estimation, scheduling, and reporting across teams, drive risk-based testing.; Define quality gates, acceptance criteria, and release readiness metrics (coverage, defect trends, stability).; Coordinate with PO/Scrum Master, development, DevOps, and stakeholders to align quality goals.; Drive automation roadmap: what to automate, when to automate, and how to keep it maintainable.; Hands-on contribution to automation (review + development) for embedded and HMI/Web layers.; Establish coding standards, branching strategy, test design patterns, logging, and reporting.; Mentor test engineers, perform code reviews and enforce reliability and repeatability of automation.; Lead system validation for Embedded Linux firmware/applications and Embedded RTOS components.; Validate system services, networking configurations, IPC mechanisms, security aspects, and performance.; Plan and execute regression, stress, endurance, and stability tests on real hardware.; Guide test approach for drivers/kernel modules (Linux) and real-time behaviour (RTOS), including timing and resource constraints.; Validate UI/UX consistency, responsiveness, and functional workflows on device-hosted HMI.; Automate web testing using Selenium / Robot Framework (or similar), integrated with system test runs.; Validate communication paths between HMI and backend services using REST APIs, WebSockets, MQTT/ZMQ.; Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated test execution (smoke, regression, nightly).; Integrate test automation with Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions (YAML), including artifacts, logs, and reports.; Implement pipeline gating (PR checks, required workflows) and automated notifications.; Ensure test environments are reproducible (Python venv, dependency pinning, containers if needed).

Requirements

5+ years in QA/Test Engineering with at least 3–5 years leading teams/projects.; Strong hands-on experience in Embedded Linux system testing and automation.; Strong exposure to Embedded RTOS testing (timing, concurrency, resource constraints, real-time behaviour).; Python expertise for automation (framework development, utilities, API/system validation scripts).; CI/CD experience: Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions, pipeline design, gating, reporting.; Web/API validation experience: REST APIs, WebSockets, MQTT/ZMQ exposure is a plus.; Good understanding of networking, IPC, security validation, performance, and stability testing.; Experience working with real embedded hardware, HIL exposure is a plus.; Test management: planning, estimation, stakeholder reporting, mentoring, and delivery ownership.; Tooling: Jenkins/GitHub Actions for CI/CD + quality gates, Git + Jira for PR/defect workflow and traceability.

Nice to have

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science / Electronics / Embedded Systems (or related).; Experience in Industrial IoT / Energy Storage / Automotive embedded systems is a plus.; Exposure to Yocto / Buildroot / embedded Linux distributions is beneficial.; Exposure to Embedded C/C++ (for debugging, logs, and root-cause analysis).