Job Description

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow's transportation.

In Ford Model e, we create lifetime value for our customers by delivering a software development environment that is purposeful and differentiated with simplicity and ingenuity to generate sustainable returns for Ford. We equip the enterprise to derive value from all forms of data to generate sustainable savings through automation and team integration.

In the position as an IVI Test Automation Supervisor, you will influence our efforts in the development of sensors, ECUs, models, and software. The person in this position is passionate about the validation and verification of new features.

The IVI Test Automation Supervisor is responsible for managing a team of validation / automation development engineers to ensure robust software for Ford's SYNC infotainment system. The IVI Test Automation Supervisor serves in an expert capacity to lead production embedded software development projects to ensure compliance to test and quality standards, setting a world-class example for the automotive industry.

Responsibilities

• Project leader for the execution of strategies for Test design, planning and execution methods, and automation scripts used for requirements verification purposes, at multiple integration / solution levels.
• Guide and contribute to incident resolutions and reporting, including Preventive Actions implementations into the Test Strategy.
• Guide and contribute to defining Test Management Strategies (tools and processes selection / creation) used by the Test Teams on the planning, execution, and reporting phases.
• Guide and contribute to the selection of the defect management tools and processes.
• Guide and contribute to the definition of Automation tools and strategies, including Staffing, Development, Material, Equipment and Facilities.
• Understand, promote, and contribute to the improvement of Ford Standards and tools for pipeline development.
• Promote code artisanship best practices, quality and security standards; and leads/contributes to the improvement of them.
• Promote industry Software Quality Assurance standards (ASPICE, ISTQB, ASAM, INCOSE, etc.) to improve the Test Strategies within the team.
• Provide thought leadership and perspective across multiple organizations to eliminate knowledge silos.
• Build a highly collaborative, motivated team environment and partner with project managers, embedded system engineers, embedded software developers, and embedded software quality assurance engineers daily.

Qualifications

Minimum requirements we seek:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• 10 + years of advanced professional experience with Software / Requirements Verifications projects (Test Suite and Automation solutions for multiple Verification / Validation scopes and Integration levels).
• 8+ years of professional experience in architecting and implementing Test Strategies.
• 5+ years of professional experience proposing technical direction for Design Verification framework solutions.
• 5+ years Python, Java, or C++ Programming

Our Preferred Requirements

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Extensive Experience with Requirements Engineering or Electrical Architecture or Software Architectures.
• Experience Championing, Promoting, Leading:
  • Software configuration management systems (source control, DevSecOps, CI/CD, etc.).
  • Software operations (DevSecOps, Reliability Engineering, observability, support/maintenance, etc.).
• Experience in modern software development methodology, such as pair programming, test-first/test-driven development OR demonstrated delivery of singular focus programming.
• Experience with multiple tech stacks and the verification of its functions including cloud environments, Mastery of ReactJS, Qt (or equivalent), C/C++ language, GNU toolchain, and Unix (QNX, Linux, or equivalent
• Demonstrated success creating evolutionary architectures with appropriate operational characteristics: scale, reliability, security, performance, etc.