Job Title : Test Manager
Location: Lewisville TX (Onsite)
Job Type :Fulltime /Contract
Salary : $90k- $110k
Job Description:
Test Strategy and Governance
• Define and implement program-level test strategies, quality standards, KPIs, and release-readiness criteria.
• Own test planning, estimation, resource allocation, execution governance, and quality reporting.
• Establish traceability from requirements through test coverage, defects, and acceptance.
• Ensure alignment with customer processes and applicable automotive quality practices.
Connected Vehicle Validation
• Lead validation of connected vehicle platforms, telematics systems, SDV capabilities, OTA updates, remote diagnostics, fleet solutions, mobile applications, vehicle data platforms, and cloud services.
• Coordinate vehicle, edge, mobile, API, cloud, and back-office testing across integrated releases.
• Validate service continuity, data accuracy, interoperability, error handling, and production readiness.
Test Delivery Management
• Manage the testing lifecycle from requirements analysis through production deployment and post-release validation.
• Oversee functional, integration, system, regression, end-to-end, performance, security, and UAT activities.
• Drive defect triage, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and defect-leakage reduction.
• Maintain test plans, traceability matrices, quality dashboards, risk logs, and release recommendations.
Automation and DevOps
• Define automation and continuous-testing roadmaps across UI, API, mobile, cloud, and embedded interfaces.
• Integrate automated validation into CI/CD pipelines and promote shift-left quality engineering.
• Track automation effectiveness, execution stability, reusable assets, and maintenance needs.
Stakeholder and Team Leadership
• Act as the primary quality contact for customer, product, program, architecture, development, and DevOps stakeholders.
• Lead onsite-offshore test teams and mentor Test Leads, Automation Architects, and Test Engineers.
• Present quality status, risks, dependencies, and release recommendations in governance and executive reviews.
• Support solutioning, estimations, proposals, audits, capability building, and continuous improvement.
Required Technical Competencies Connected Automotive
• Connected vehicles, telematics, SDV, OTA, remote diagnostics, fleet management, vehicle connectivity, automotive IoT, and vehicle data analytics. Test Manager - Connected Automotive Engineering
Automotive Protocols and Diagnostics • CAN / CAN FD, LIN, Automotive Ethernet, J1939, UDS, DoIP, MQTT, DTC analysis, and diagnostic workflows.
Cloud, API, and DevOps • Microsoft Azure, AWS or GCP; microservices; REST APIs; Docker; Kubernetes; and CI/CD pipelines.
Tools • Jira, Azure DevOps, ALM / Quality Center, Selenium, Appium, Postman, ReadyAPI, JMeter, and Robot Framework or equivalent tools.
Testing Expertise
• Functional, system, integration, end-to-end, regression, API, mobile, cloud, OTA, vehicle connectivity, performance, security, automation, and user acceptance testing. Automotive Domain Knowledge
• Automotive E/E architecture and connected-services ecosystems.
• Telematics architecture, vehicle diagnostics, and commercial or passenger vehicle platforms. • Fleet operations, mobility solutions, predictive maintenance, automotive cybersecurity, and digital engineering.
Key Performance Indicators
• Release quality and on-time delivery
• Defect leakage and production defect reduction
• Requirement and test coverage • Automation coverage and execution reliability
• Test efficiency and productivity
• Risk closure and compliance
• Customer satisfaction and stakeholder confidence
Core Keywords Connected Vehicle SDV OTA Telematics Automotive Cloud Test Automation CAN J1939 UDS Quality Engineering