HIL Supervisor

Ford’s **Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD)** team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. The **Systems HIL Supervisor** is responsible for managing and leading an agile design verification team of test engineers to validate software features integration and system level functional & performance systems end-to-end. **In this position...** The Supervisor is accountable for performance and results of the Verification and Validation team. The role manages the execution of software tests and automation scripts, adhering to industry best practices to identify and resolve defects efficiently. The role focuses on continuous optimization of testing processes to improve efficiency and reduce time-to-market for software releases. Additionally, the role leads a team to execute a comprehensive software testing strategy aligned with organizational goals, manage incident triage processes, contribute to the development, and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and implement an effective automation strategy. **What you'll do...** - Design verification and sign-off of vehicle application specific software, systems, and features as per cycle plan. - Create a highly collaborative and motivated team environment, to enable a best in-class testing and management, that can be used for software and features validations. - Be the single point of contact for software and features testing at system level - Work with external and internal teams to identify, procure, and use equipment and tools for testing activities with increased efficiency. - Create a complex system level close loop testing methods and test solutions - Adopt and deploy Mode e software tool chains, process and methods to HIL organization. - Work closely with Software Development Engineers and Feature System Engineers to develop robust and customer centric test methods. - Lead test engineers, technicians, and drivers; to create and update test cases, support test case automation, execute test sequences for each software maturity release cadence, and drive JIRA/5D/AIM Triage issues to closure – reDV regression. - Reports and presents program validation status to Directors, Chief Engineers, and Managers; on a daily basis, presenting plans to cover vehicle program priorities and support issue resolution. - Coordinate tests and manage communications with users and clients, ensuring there is one channel of communication and a single point of contact. - Ensures Test setup is updated and in optimal conditions for evaluations and test at all times. - Drive Software testing integrity and requirement & test results traceability. - Drive DV Efficiency efforts to identify opportunities to move testing from the Road to the Lab to Virtual. Drive and continue to modernize and disrupt traditional fleet validation testing processes, tools, and methods. - Drives Feature signoff with proper documentation of initial/final software states, as well as software and resources used for testing. - Hire and recruit talent, mentor and manage training and career development of team members. Elevate team competency and drive innovative System Engineering test methodology. Drive performance objectives and conduct people cycle performance reviews. **Desired Skills:** - **Effective communication:** Clear and concise spoken and written communication skills are critical for this position since the Supervisor is responsible for reporting and driving closure of fleet detected issues, escalate, and disc…