Senior Software Engineer — Embedded Test Automation Leader

General Motors Africa & Middle East

Brighton Charter Township (MI)

On-site

USD 239,000 - 366,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

General Motors Africa & Middle East is seeking a senior software engineering leader to drive productivity and modernization of a large-scale embedded test system. You will define standardized automation across virtual and physical environments and connect test execution with management tools.

You will lead architecture across organizations, ship safety-critical software, and push for faster, more reliable regression testing with robust change-impact analysis.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in computer science or related field.
  • 15+ years experience validating software systems and leading architecture.
  • Deep understanding of software architecture for real time systems.
  • Experience shipping safety critical products.
  • Experience architecting large-scale CI/CD and embedded test automation.
  • Expertise in variation management and risk-based regression testing.
  • Experience with test-result data modeling, Databricks, analytics, data mining, and API development.
  • Proficiency with embedded systems, Linux, Git, Python, Bash, Robot Framework, containers, and infrastructure as code.
  • Ability to integrate automated diagnostics and issue-management workflows.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Be a critical leader of software engineering productivity and effectiveness.
  • Identify opportunities, strategies, process improvements, and lead the change.
  • Be hands-on by leading high impact efforts.
  • Be a strong communicator, coach, and mentor.
  • Analyze unusual and difficult problems effectively.
  • Connect multiple initiatives to deliver higher value.
  • Modernize a large-scale embedded software test system.
  • Define and modernize a standardized, fully automated, headless framework across virtual and physical environments to enable full-suite testing multiple times per day.
  • Maintain command skills and empathy while leading teams.
  • Lead improvements across CI/CD pipelines and test environments.

Skills

Leadership
Embedded systems
CI/CD
Python
Robot Framework
Git
Linux
Bash
Containers
Automation
Diagnostics
Problem-solving

Education

Bachelors degree in computer science / related field
Masters degree or PhD preferred

Tools

Databricks

Job description

General Motors Africa & Middle East is seeking a senior software engineering leader to drive productivity and modernization of a large-scale embedded test system. You will define standardized automation across virtual and physical environments and connect test execution with management tools.

You will lead architecture across organizations, ship safety-critical software, and push for faster, more reliable regression testing with robust change-impact analysis.

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