System Test Team Lead

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Job Summary

This product-focused role tailors electronic and electrical systems for Cummins products across a variety of customer applications. The position translates product requirements into hardware and software technical requirements that control product operation and ensures comprehensive validation of fully integrated systems.

The role leads embedded software verification and validation activities, supports system integration and test strategy development, and drives execution excellence across varying business scenarios and software life cycles.

Key Responsibilities Test Strategy, Development & Execution

• Lead automotive embedded software engineering activities to deliver project expectations across multiple software life cycles.
• Develop and execute system, software, and integration test plans.
• Prepare and maintain Design Verification Plan & Report (DVP&R) documentation.
• Lead test development and execution across HiL, MiL, and SiL environments.
• Ensure validation coverage analysis and robust verification of requirements.
• Review test outcomes regularly and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
• Ensure adherence to defined test processes and quality standards throughout the year.
• Contribute to lessons learned and organizational knowledge databases.

Cross-Functional Coordination & Customer Interface

• Facilitate collaboration between customers and software/calibration teams to gather requirements for test development.
• Coordinate with customers and test leads to prioritize test development and execution resources.
• Work with Validation Managers (VMs), Lab Operations, and technical teams to ensure required hardware/software test environments are available.
• Support planning and validation activities for new product introductions.
• Coordinate test planning activities with customers and VMs.
• Manage CSAR DCR activities (non–test development related).
• Ensure timely delivery of all test development and execution requests.

Systems Engineering & Technical Leadership

• Investigate electronic application and system issues; determine root cause and lead resolution.
• Apply and improve systems development processes including modeling, simulation, calibration, troubleshooting, and product life maintenance.
• Translate stakeholder needs into verifiable system and software requirements.
• Establish acceptance criteria and track requirements throughout the system lifecycle.
• Support system design decisions impacting calibration, requirements, diagnostics, and subsystem performance.
• Review work of less-experienced developers and testers to ensure robust and reusable design.
• Lead process development and continuous improvement initiatives within the test community.
• Provide independent leadership for smaller business-impact projects or complex components/systems with full accountability to the project team.
• Coordinate work across technicians, temporary staff, and junior engineers while mentoring and transferring knowledge.

About Us

Cummins is an equal opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.This product-focused role tailors electronic and electrical systems for Cummins products across a variety of customer applications. The position translates product requirements into hardware and software technical requirements that control product operation and ensures comprehensive validation of fully integrated systems. The role leads embedded software verification and validation activities, supports system integration and test strategy development, and drives execution excellence across varying business scenarios and software life cycles.