Principal Software Validation Engineer

Job Description

Enabling a software-defined, electrified future.

Visteon is a technology company that develops and builds innovative digital cockpit and electrification products at the leading-edge of the mobility revolution. Founded in 2000, Visteon brings decades of automotive intelligence combined with Silicon Valley speed to apply global insights that help transform the software-defined vehicle of the future for many of the world's largest OEMs. The company employs 10,000 employees in 18 countries around the globe.

Mission of the Role:To drive the quality of a product by performing testing in the early stages of software development with maximum coverage, making it efficient and repeatable through automation with minimal supervision. Responsible for mentoring and guiding other team members to elevate their performance.

Key Objectives of this Role:

• Understand and interpret software requirements for optimal testability.
• Create, execute, and automate test plans across various components and features.
• Manage test environment, infrastructure, and defect tracking.
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage and alignment with DevOps strategy.
• Develop and implement quality reports and maintain categorized test suites.
• Automate testing processes for wider coverage and efficiency.
• Define reusable test scenarios and contribute to test-driven development.
• Lead and mentor junior members, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Vehicle testing
• Working with Customer HIL testing
• Reproducing/Recreating issues reported from customer vehicle testing
• Analyzing customer vehicle use cases and applying /Improving Visteon automaton test bench

Key Performance Indicators:

1. Test automation coverage: Target 90%

2. Defect escape rate from Visteon testing to customer : Target 5%

3. Good relationship with customer test team

Key Year One Deliverables:

1. First level Defect triaging without SW development engineer support: with in first 6 months

2. A2B log analysis skill : to be acquired with in 6 months

3. Leading defect meeting with customer : With in 6 months

4. Contribution to FMEA

Qualification, Experience and Skills:

• Engineering degree (Master's preferred)
• 10+ years in automotive software development & testing
• SDLC knowledge
• OEM test bench knowledge
• UI Automation expertise (Selenium, Robot, Appium)
• Multi-project management experience
• Strong domain & feature knowledge
• Scripting & framework expertise (Python, Capl)
• DevOps familiarity (tools & processes)
• Continuous improvement & build process experience.
• Agile/Scrum understanding.
• Solution-oriented, critical thinking from a testing perspective
• Expert in requirement analysis

Key Behaviors:

• Collaboration
• Critical Thinking
• Resilience
• Result Orientation
• Visteon values and beliefs

Visteon Culture: If you thrive in a fast-paced, organizational culture that requires agility, adaptability, and a growth mindset from its employees to thrive and stay ahead of the curve Visteon is the place. We value high performance and a drive for results. Innovation, risk-taking, and continuous learning help us keep up with the ever-changing landscape of our industry and be Market leaders. At Visteon you can be more.

Job Snapshot

Updated Date

16-Oct-2025

Job ID

J10269

Job Discipline

System Validation

Location

Grace Lake Corp Center, Van Buren Twp, Michigan, United States

Employee Type

Full Time Employees