System Test and Validation Engineer (D)

Duties: 

• We are looking for a driven and passionate System Test and Validation Engineer to join us in developing a truly exciting and forward-thinking product—one you can believe in, advocate for, and take pride in delivering.

• This role sits at the heart of our connected car platform, which underpins our luxury vehicles and delivers seamless digital experiences to our customers.

• You will take ownership of validating system features that enable this platform, ensuring high quality, robustness, and a defect free user experience from concept through to delivery.

• You will play a key role in shaping validation strategies and continuously improving test processes, with a strong focus on automation, reuse of existing test assets, and leveraging established validation practices across the business.

• Working on our current technology landscape, you’ll be part of an ambitious transformation—evolving today’s features into next generation digital capabilities that will help take Jaguar Land Rover into a new digital era and support our journey toward a carbon neutral fleet this decade.

• In short, we are seeking someone with a genuine passion for the automotive industry—an engineer who is confident making decisions, takes ownership, and operates independently without reliance on escalation or close supervision. You will join a highly collaborative, non-hierarchical team culture that lives our company values and is united by a shared goal: delivering exceptional, innovative features for our customers.

• Creating detailed test plans to align with software release plans.

• Leading the test team, setting priorities and monitoring progress of test plans.

• Designing test cases and scenarios to ensure requirement coverage.

• Review test artifacts to ensure quality and consistency of test cases, test scripts and test reports.

• Driving the test execution and reporting test results.

• End to end testing on vehicles to ensure feature has achieved delivery maturity.

• Tracking defects and liaising with both internal and external teams to ensure timely resolution

Skills:    

• Test strategy and test planning at system level with focus on real-world usage scenarios and failure modes.

• Defect Lifecycle management.

• Strong hands-on understanding of automotive architecture and protocols like CAN, Ethernet (SomeIP/DoIP)

• Experience in using logging and measurement tools like Vector CANoe, Intrepid, etc.

• Vehicle and test rig level experience including flashing ECUs.

• Understanding of automotive systems, practices and procedures