HiL Test Engineer - HV/EV Platform

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. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated **HiL Test Engineer - HV/EV Platform** to join our **HV/EV feature validation team**. In this role, you will lead HV Feature bringup, test automation, HV Test Solution development and HIL testing efforts for **High Voltage (HV) feature testing, diagnostics, and platform software/hardware** on next-generation automotive platforms. You will bring up new HV test systems, develop test solutions to perform end-to-end feature validation, create test cases based on **ASTQB test methodologies**, and automate and execute those test cases. You will be validating **BMS, charging, diagnostics, and power electronics systems**, while driving **CI/CD integration** to improve test velocity and quality. **What you'll do...** - Responsible for developing and bringing up HV/EV test solutions in order to perform end-to-end feature validation. - Responsible for new feature bring-up and system test validation of software components related to **HV/EV, Diagnostics, and Platform testing**. - Responsible for performing **GAP analysis**, developing new test cases based on **ASTQB test methodologies**, automating those test cases, and executing test cases to perform software validation across ECUs, focusing on **HV/EV at the system level on HIL**. - Responsible for performing system architecture and the related validation tests on components. - Responsible for **test plan creation, test execution, test report review, and feature validation tests** while ensuring traceability to functional and performance requirements. - Facilitate and align with cross-functional technical teams such as **functional safety, feature teams** at the system level. - Responsible for performing testing on **closed-loop test benches** and creating bench-level test cases using **ECUTest / CAPL / Python** to increase efficiency and test repeatability, contributing directly to reduced cost and improved final product quality. - Maintain test case traceability against system-level feature requirements throughout the product development life cycle. - Align and support **SAFe** processes and activities within functional areas such as **System, Hardware, and Safety**. - Responsible for diagnostic testing, feature-related fault injection testing, and developing and executing test cases to ensure system and feature integrity. - Be responsible for test diagnostics and **UDS protocol** and fault testing; define and execute software and hardware diagnostics test cases. - Investigate root causes of component- or system-level DUT failure. - Implement automated diagnostics testing (**UDS / DoIP / K-Line**), **DTC validation**, and DTC suppression/unmasking strategies where required. - Responsible for creating roads and scenarios in **dSPACE MotionDesk / ModelDesk / Aurelion**, creating **ControlDesk layouts** for feature testing, and developing test automation in **Python / ECUTest** or equivalent HIL tools. - Author and maintain test cases, test data, and test artifacts (logs, traces, TestRail/Test Management entries) and ensure they are archived to artifact stores such as **JFrog**. - Integrate test executions into **CI/CD pipelines** such as **Jenkins** and **GitLab CI**, and automated job scheduling systems such as **CT/Jira** or equivalent. - Analyze test failures, perform root-cause investigations across software, hardware, and network t…