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Automotive Test & Configuration Engineer

Licensed sponsor UK / Coventry / Gaydon Posted 3 hours ago

Tata Elxsi works with leading OEMs and suppliers in the automotive & transportation industries for R&D, Design and Product Engineering Services, right from architecture to launch and beyond. We bring together technologies that accelerate development & testing of connected autonomous and electric cars & off-highway vehicles.

We are seeking experienced engineers to ensure the quality, reliability, and successful deployment of software releases across vehicle platforms and supporting offboard systems. The role spans plan & executing in-vehicle test campaigns, analysing logs (CAN, Ethernet, diagnostics), and driving defect resolution with cross-functional teams.  The role requires hands-on test execution, configuration management, and strong skills in test automation and tooling.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and execute test plans, test cases, and scripts to detect defects and validate release quality across vehicle and offboard environments.
  • Manage and run sequences of defined test cases for multiple vehicle updates in parallel.
  • Conduct configuration management activities including release control, version control, and change management for new and current products.
  • Install software builds and raise OTA campaigns.
  • Perform triage of logs: parse, correlate, and root-cause using traces (CAN dumps, PCAPs, ECU logs), error codes (DTCs)

Required Skills & Experience

  • 2+ years in automotive testing/validation (vehicle-level + HIL)
  • Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab), version control (Git), and issue tracking (Jira)
  • Needs UK driving license with 2 years pre-validity

Duration: Fulltime Permanent

Hybrid work: 5 days from client location

Number of positions: 3

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