Software Quality Assurance Engineer

General Motors

Software Quality Assurance Engineer at GM developing test cases and automation methods for vehicle software. Collaborating in Agile teams to elevate software quality and performance.

Posted 5/3/2026full-timeMilford • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonVBA

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create software for battery management, inverter, and electric motor system functions and perform integration and verification testing with minimal direction of lead engineers.
Analyze software defects; determine root cause, create software solution, test and verify closure.
Performs design and analysis on changes.
Diagnose, debug and solve issues related to battery, inverter, and electric motor hardware and software.
Work with teams from multiple groups to meet project milestones.
Develop test cases and write comprehensive test plans to assess software products at different system levels.
Identify software anomalies, missed requirements and performance issues early in the development processes.
Develop robust continuous automation methods using tools such as Python and Jenkins.
Understand functional, safety, and compliance requirements, implementing appropriate test plans and setups.
Execute test plans on a variety of test environments, mostly through hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testing.
Be the go-to troubleshooter for any product integration issues.
Identify and resolve software problems; contribute to the team knowledge base so common software errors, corner case situations and other learnings can be retained and shared.
Frequently collaborate with controls, diagnostic, and software cross-functional teams as well as other stakeholders to define effective acceptance criteria.
Be an active member of the scrum team, acting as a subject matter expert to enable Solution in Context, Solution in Isolation, and System Testing.
Support the evaluation of software packages, including data reviews, simulation behavioral test, automation methods, and authoring/execution of comprehensive test plans to assess software and simulation products at different system levels.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or other technical related field.
1+ years of embedded software development or test experience.
1+ years of Python scripting experience.
Experience reading and debugging source code in C/C++/Python language.
Hardware-in-the-loop (ideally dSPACE ControlDesk) or Software-in-the-loop (virtual) test environment experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

embedded software developmentPython scriptingC/C++ programmingsoftware testingintegration testingdebuggingtest case developmentautomation methodsroot cause analysisperformance testing

Soft Skills

collaborationtroubleshootingproblem-solvingcommunicationteamworkanalytical thinkingattention to detailadaptabilityleadershipproject management

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering