Roles & Responsibilities :
Test Leadership & Strategy:
• 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.
Automation Frameworks & Execution:
• 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.
Embedded Linux & Embedded RTOS System Testing:
• 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.
HMI / Web Application Validation:
• 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.
CI/CD Pipelines & Quality Gates (Jenkins / GitHub Actions):
• 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).
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.