Manager, SW Systems Test
Bose
- Bloomfield Hills, MI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop and execute strategic plans for the design, implementation, and maintenance of software test systems and automation processes.
- Direct teams of software and system test engineers within Bose global team. Foster a high-performance culture across all teams by promoting collaboration, integrity, inclusion, transparency, accountability, and compassion.
- Oversee and align budgets and staffing demands across global software test system & automation teams in coordination with Bose stakeholders.
- Lead the development of talent pipelines and succession plans to ensure a robust and skilled workforce for the future.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration and communication across teams, ensuring that information and best practices are shared effectively
- Provide advice, guidance, encouragement, and constructive feedback to team members and managers
- Implement organizational practices for staffing, diversity, performance management, development, reward and recognition, and retention.
- Collaborate with Customer SW Delivery, E2E Test, Engineering SW application Development and lead forecast budgetary requirements for annual planning rounds.
- Develop and execute a comprehensive financial strategy for test system development & automation, aligning budgeting efforts with the long-term goals of the organization and the specific needs of project management team.
- Implement financial controls and reporting mechanisms to monitor expenditures, ensuring that budgets are adhered to across hardware development teams.
- Drive financial transparency and accountability across teams.
- Define initial budgets and project definitions for strategic technology initiatives, prioritizing approved initiatives across teams.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and integration of test systems and automation processes.
- Define and establish best practices, standards, and procedures for test systems and automation.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize test processes, increase efficiency, and reduce cycle times.
- Identify and evaluate new technologies, tools, and methodologies to enhance test systems and automation capabilities
- Foster innovation within test system and automation teams to explore emerging technologies and methodologies that can enhance product quality and efficiency
- SW automation development and deployment experience.
- SW Test and SW automation Technical Leadership skills
- Analytical and conceptual thinking
- Supervisory and management skills
- Experience in developing SW Test strategies and on time delivery of SW Test & Automation
- Communication skills - interpersonal, presentation and written
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
- Excellent organization and delegation skills
- Strategic/visionary minded
- Project Management skills
- Proficiency in managing global SW and Systems teams
- Extensive knowledge and expertise in test methodologies, test automation frameworks, and test equipment
- Hands-on experience in SW automation programming languages (Python), C/C++, MatLab
- Experience with automotive networks, such as CAN, A2B, MOST, RS-485 and Ethernet AVB.
- Exceptional debugging and troubleshooting abilities.
- Solid understanding of hardware/software integration, embedded systems, and electronic components
- Able to manage team differences within a culturally diverse environment
- Skill in optimizing resource allocation, including personnel, budget, and technology, to achieve goals efficiently and cost-effectively
- Proven ability to develop a strategic vision for test systems development and automation that aligns with the company's overall business strategy
- Working knowledge of Digital Signal Processing
- ASPICE expertise
- Hybrid working model
- Travel to worldwide locations required, less than 15%