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This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office three days per week, at minimum.\nAbout the Team\nThe Data Engineering Systems QA team verifies the end-to-end data plane and control plane ecosystem connecting millions of intelligent vehicles to cloud platforms. Our mission is to ensure that vehicle data streaming from embedded controllers reaches cloud data platforms, mobile apps, and operational monitoring services with zero loss, while rigorously testing and monitoring controlled configuration rollouts and campaign operations across the fleet.\nThe Role\nWe are seeking a candidate in Test Engineering to strengthen our system verification and quality assurance team. This role is crucial for ensuring the integrity, scalability, and performance of our end-to-end data plane and control plane pipelines, extending from embedded vehicle components to cloud-based analytics platforms. \nIn this role, you will develop automated verification for bench and vehicle levels of connected vehicle features, validating high-throughput telemetry ingestion, and vehicle health monitoring. The successful candidate will drive testing rigor across both physical test assets and cloud environments, ensuring our systems meet demanding quality, safety, and performance requirements.\nWhat You'll Do (Responsibilities)\nEnd-to-End Test Strategy & Execution: Formulate, automate, and execute comprehensive test plans covering both data plane and control plane interfaces across vehicle edge, cloud infrastructure layers and beyond.\n Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Testing: Configure, maintain, and execute tests on benches, virtual test environments (SIL), and instrumented vehicle setups.\nSystem Integration & Performance Testing: Conduct thorough integration, latency and throughput testing across edge and cloud boundaries; identify system bottlenecks and propose optimizations.\nData Integrity & Pipeline Verification: Validate data serialization, pipeline throughput, deduplication, and database persistence across ingestion feeds and analytical storage layers.\nObservability & Defect Triage: Leverage monitoring dashboards, metrics, and distributed tracing to proactively detect anomalies, perform deep root-cause analysis, and track defect resolution across hardware and software teams.\nCollaborative Engineering: Partner closely with embedded software developers, cloud platform teams, and system architects to facilitate seamless system integration and drive design-for-testability.\nCI/CD & Test Automation: Build and maintain automated regression suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines to enforce quality gates for every software and firmware release.\nDocumentation & Quality Standards: Maintain rigorous documentation of system test benches, test frameworks, test results, and performance baselines.\nYour Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.\n3+ years of experience in software or systems testing, with exposure to embedded systems, connected devices, or IoT ecosystems.\nDemonstrated hands-on experience with Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing, including test setup, wire harness troubleshooting, signal/bus simulation, test execution, and results analysis.\nProficiency in Python for automated testing, test harness creation, and data processing.\nPractical ability to inspect, read, and debug compiled code written in C/C++, Rust, or Java.\nWorking knowledge of SQL for querying relational and analytical databases to verify data persistence and message integrity.\nExperience with operating systems such as Linux, QNX, or Android.\nSolid understanding of Agile methodologies, Git version control, and CI/CD automated test integration.\nWhat Can Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)\nExperience with software observability, including monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.\nHands-on experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.\nExperience with data and analytics platforms such as Databricks, Apache Spark, or Apache Kafka.\nFamiliarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.\nKnowledge of telecommunication networks (cellular 4G/5G, LTE-V2X), IoT messaging protocols (MQTT, Protobuf, WebSockets), and transport security (TLS/mTLS).\nFamiliarity with automotive networking protocols (CAN, CAN-FD, Automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP, UDS) and analysis tools (Vector CANoe, CANalyzer, Wireshark).\nUnderstanding of microservices architecture and distributed cloud systems.\nCompensation:\nThe salary range for this role is $90,900 to $136,400. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.\nGM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.\nBenefits Overview\nThe goal of the General Motors of Canada total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan currently includes the following benefits, in addition to many others:\nPaid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave;\nHealthcare, dental, and vision benefits;\nLife insurance plans to cover you and your family;\nCompany and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to help you save for retirement;\nGM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you and your family.\n\nAbout GM\nOur vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.\nWhy Join Us\nWe believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.\nNon-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities\nGeneral Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.\nWe encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visitHow we Hire.\nAccommodations\nGeneral Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. 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