Test Automation Expert

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About the Position

Marelli is looking for a Test Automation Expert. The company is seeking a senior or expert test automation engineer with strong programming skills, deep automotive-domain expertise, and proven experience designing and scaling test-automation frameworks. This is a hands-on technical role spanning framework architecture, automation execution, mentorship, and continuous-testing enablement for automotive cluster and infotainment systems. The position is based at Marelli's office in Bengaluru, India.

Your Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and evolve scalable test-automation frameworks for automotive systems. - Act as a senior individual contributor delivering hands-on automation solutions. - Define and enforce best practices for automation architecture, coding standards, and reuse. - Mentor automation engineers and provide technical leadership. - Drive productivity improvements using AI-assisted automation and modern testing approaches. - Integrate automation solutions into CI/CD/CT pipelines. - Collaborate closely with software, integration, and validation teams.

What Qualifications You Will Bring

Marelli is looking for engineers who think like software developers, design automation as a product, and are passionate about scalable, reusable, and future-ready automation.

Must-Have Technical Skills

- Strong programming fundamentals covering data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design. - Expert-level hands-on experience in test-automation development. - Proven framework-design and architecture experience. - Preferred programming stack: C#, .NET, WPF, and MVVM. - Deep debugging and root-cause-analysis skills. - Strong understanding of white-box testing, API testing, and software-level validation.

AI and Productivity Enablement — Must Have

- Practical experience with generative AI and large language models for software testing. - Experience applying AI and machine-learning models to predictive analysis, anomaly detection, and failure-pattern recognition. - Understanding of AI limitations, governance, and responsible usage in testing.

Automotive Domain Expertise — Mandatory

- Strong automotive background with experience in cluster, infotainment, BCM, or telematics systems. - Hands-on experience with CAN, UDS diagnostics, and vehicle networks. - Understanding of ECU behavior, timing, and event-driven systems.

Automation and Testing Capabilities

- HMI and UI automation experience for cluster or IVI systems. - Vision-based validation, OCR, pixel or region comparison, and gauge or blinking validation. - Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing experience. - Experience with headless automation and parallel execution.

Preferred Skills

- Experience with Android Automotive OS or Linux-based IVI platforms. - Knowledge of ASPICE testing expectations, including SWE.4 and SWE.5. - Familiarity with BDD or Gherkin-based testing approaches. - Experience with tools such as DOORS, ALM, Jira, Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.

What the Position Offers

The role works in a fast-paced, supportive, high-performing international team with an ambition to transform the future of mobility. Marelli provides onboarding and further training, and describes a hybrid work model combining remote focus time with purposeful co-creation time in the office.

About Marelli

Marelli is a global independent supplier to the automotive sector with a track record in innovation and manufacturing excellence. Its business areas include automotive lighting and sensing, thermal solutions, electronics, green technology solutions, interior experience, propulsion solutions, ride dynamics, motorsport, and aftermarket business.