Annual gross salary range: Min. 29,505€ - Max. 57,225€ (depending on experience).
Volkswagen Group Services is a Volkswagen Group company oriented towards working for Group companies worldwide.
We provide services in the areas of production, logistics, data engineering (IT), engineering, consulting, quality, business services, human resources, communication, and administrative and financial services. We are focused on our clients’ activities and take responsibility for carrying them out on their behalf.
We are currently hiring an Automation Tester to join our I&E HUB in Lisbon.
At the Innovation & Engineering Hub, we develop bold, market-ready solutions that support Volkswagen Group and its leading brands. Together with TRATON Group’s Global R&D — home to brands like Scania, MAN, International, and Volkswagen Truck & Bus — we’re building the future of intelligent and sustainable transport. Global R&D focuses on:
• Alternative Drive Systems
• Digitalization
• Automated Driving
• Road Safety We’re not just manufacturing vehicles — we’re engineering the future of mobility.
Vehicle Configuration & Update Team enables secure, scalable software updates, parametrization, and remote logging for High Performance Computer (HPC) platforms and ECUs, both over-the-air and wired, and across global vehicle programs. We design and evolve the end-to-end update ecosystem, from backend services to vehicle integration, working hands-on with cutting-edge automotive software technologies.
With innovation and long-term product value at the core, we actively shape the Software Defined Vehicle ambition at TRATON by building robust update capabilities that accelerate innovation cycles, safeguard vehicle integrity, and unlock continuous software value throughout the entire vehicle lifecycle.
• Own and drive the overall test strategy and quality assurance for complex services within an international product organization, ensuring high reliability, scalability, and customer satisfaction;
• Design, implement, and continuously improve robust automated (and manual) end to-end test frameworks for distributed automotive IoT systems;
• Identify systemic quality risks early, drive root-cause analysis, and lead the resolution of complex, cross-team technical challenges and roadblocks;
• Lead validation activities for products, prototypes, and MVPs in the near-vehicle services domain, ensuring readiness for production and alignment with business goals;
• Contribute to architectural and technical discussions to ensure testability, observability, and quality are built into systems from the ground up;
• Act as a subject-matter expert for testing in an automotive IoT environment, proactively advising and mentoring team members and collaborating with other teams to evolve best practices, tooling, and processes; • Champion continuous improvement by evaluating new technologies, introducing innovative testing approaches, and applying pragmatic solutions that balance quality, speed, and cost.
• Bachelor's degree in related field or comparable job expertise;
• Minimum of 5 years of experience;
• Strong proficiency with scripting and/or programming languages for test automation, test frameworks, and custom tooling;
• Proven track record in defining, implementing, and scaling automated (and manual) test strategies in international and cross-functional teams;
• Solid working knowledge of Linux-based systems and their use in automated testing and CI/CD environments;
• Experience designing and integrating cloud-based testing solutions, preferably using AWS, including monitoring, alerting, and observability practices;
• Proficiency in Python for test automation, rapid prototyping, and internal tooling development is highly desirable;
• Agile and DevOps mindset;
• Very good English skills, both written and spoken
Ref Level A
The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. The Group is made up of ten brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen, Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge, ŠKODA, SEAT, CUPRA, Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, Porsche and Ducati.
Our group sells vehicles in 153 countries and operates 114 production plants worldwide. Each working day, around 675,000 employees worldwide produce cars, are involved in vehicle-related services or work in the other fields of business.
Our goal is to make mobility sustainable for us and for future generations. Our promise: With electric drive, digital networking and autonomous driving, we make the automobile clean, quiet, intelligent and safe. At the same time, our core product becomes even more emotional and offers a completely new driving experience. It is also becoming part of the solution when it comes to climate and environmental protection. In this way, the car can continue to be a cornerstone of contemporary, individual and affordable mobility in the future. #Shapingmobility
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