Automotive Software Test Engineer

About the role

DXC Luxoft's Automotive practice delivers software projects to most of the world's car manufacturers and suppliers, and is growing its Swedish team. This position is for a Test Automation Engineer who will help develop next-generation systems for the automotive industry, including connected, autonomous and electric vehicles. The work centres on maintaining the vehicle-network gateway that communicates between the Vehicle Computation Unit and mechatronic ECUs over Automotive Ethernet, CAN/CAN-FD and LIN networks.

Key responsibilities

• Plan and run maintenance release verification and regression testing.
• Reproduce reported defects in designated test environments.
• Analyse test failures and write clear technical documentation.
• Maintain test cases, repeatable procedures and detailed test reports.
• Support verification using VIU rigs, integration environments and vehicles where applicable.
• Improve maintenance-focused test automation and regression coverage.

Required profile

• Embedded software testing expertise in the automotive sector, covering Ethernet, CAN/CAN-FD, LIN and diagnostic functions.
• Nice to have: experience in automotive embedded software testing and understanding of the automotive communication protocols and diagnostics.
• English at C1 Advanced level.

Required skills

• Comprehensive automotive embedded-software testing and structured defect reporting.
• Use and interpretation of logs and test tools, and scripting to improve testing.
• Regression testing, issue reproduction and test automation.
• Analytical thinking, methodical documentation and effective communication with development teams.