Embedded Software Testing Engineer - Automotive

Overview

Expleo is a global engineering, technology, and consulting service provider that partners with leading organizations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses.  

Expleo benefits from more than 50 years of experience developing complex products in automotive and aerospace, optimizing manufacturing processes, and ensuring the quality of information systems. Leveraging its deep sector knowledge and wide-ranging expertise in fields including AI engineering, digitalization, automation, cybersecurity and data science, the group’s mission is to fast-track innovation through each step of the value chain. 

With a worldwide presence in 30 countries, our global footprint includes excellence centers around the world, including Romania since 1994. #LI-CI1

Responsibilities

• Manage and validate software and calibration deliveries in multiple automotive formats, including binary images and flashware containers, ensuring readiness for deployment
• Verify software package integrity through memory map validation, checksum/CRC checks, and hardware/software compatibility assessments

• Perform checksum recalculations and corrections following authorised software modifications, ensuring successful ECU programming and bootloader acceptance
• Program and update ECUs across bench setups, HiL environments, and vehicle platforms using CAN, CAN FD, and Ethernet/DoIP communication protocols
• Execute end-to-end UDS programming activities, including security access, software download, data transfer, validation, and dependency checks
• Support diagnostics over DoIP for next-generation vehicle architectures and IP-based communication platforms
• Conduct post-programming validation by confirming ECU identification data, coding status, software compatibility, and programming quality.​
• Troubleshoot and recover ECUs following unsuccessful flashing attempts, applying recovery procedures and collaborating with engineering teams when required.​
• Configure and maintain test benches,including power supplies, wiring harnesses, CANnetworks, and communication interfaces.​
• Create, maintain, and optimize test casesbased on system requirements and customer specifications.​
• Execute functional, integration, regression,and robustness testing activities to ensure software quality and reliability.​
• Investigate software issues, reproduce defects, and provide detailed defect reports supported by traces, logs, and software baselines
• Analyse communication traces and measurement data to identify root causes and support efficient issue resolution
• Improve testing efficiency by automating repetitive flashing and validation activities through scripting and tooling
• Communicate project status, testing progress, risks, and coverage metrics to stakeholders within the project governance framework.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with automotive communication networks, including CAN, CAN FD, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet.
• Solid knowledge of automotive diagnostics, including UDS (ISO 14229) and DoIP (ISO 13400), with familiarity in interpreting and working with ODX diagnostic data.
• Experience working with software binaries, including the use of hex editors, checksum validation tools, binary comparison utilities, and file format conversion tools.
• Good understanding of ECU software architecture, including bootloaders, application software, calibration data, EEPROM memory, and their interaction during flashing activities.
• Practical experience with industry-standard diagnostic, calibration, and engineering tools such as Vector CANoe, CANalyzer, CANape, ETAS INCA, or similar solutions.
• Experience with: XENTRY/DAS, Vediamo, DTS Monaco
• Familiarity with requirements, test, and defect management tools such as Jira, Polarion, DOORS, or equivalent platforms.

Desired skills

• Knowledge of scripting languages used for test automation and process optimization
• Experience working with HiL platforms for embedded software validation and testing

What do I need before I apply

•  3 days per week at the office

Benefits

• Meal Tickets
• Holiday Voucher 
• Private medical insurance  
• Performance bonus 
• Easter and Christmas bonus 
• Employee referral bonus 
• Bookster subscription