Quality Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

• Category: Quality Engineering

Description

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Description

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren MI or Austin TX three times per week, at minimum.

The Role

Our teams are developing a contextual & personalized “always with you” companion app, enabling seamless interactions with your vehicle and GM. We are looking for software test engineers to join the journey to ensure high quality interactions for vehicles around the globe used by millions of drivers. 

The Software Quality Engineer will participate in the inception of new features collaborating to review and influence the creation of business and software requirements.  To bring the feature to life in high quality sustainable working software, you will create and execute automated and manual tests, log defects, and report test metrics and test status to the project teams. 

This role requires a deep experience in software test strategy, creation of automated test suites, integration testing with new vehicle capabilities, and proving our software has the quality to release through test metrics and reports. Software Quality Engineers work collaboratively with developers and product managers for the successful and on time delivery of mobile applications globally with the highest quality possible. 

What You’ll Do 

Build test plans to ensure the quality of features exposing technology in our newest vehicles as well as those supported by millions of drivers using the mobile application today. 

Build test suites, develop and execute manual and automated test cases. 

Log, track and verify resolutions of requirements and software defects. 

Hands on Integration test with the capabilities in the newest GM vehicles. 

Collaborate with experienced test leads to assist in test strategy and process. improvements. 

Review test cases written by others and provide feedback/assistance. 

Drive quality based on feedback loops on issue trends and issue triage. 

Advance the state of the art of quality engineering practices. 

Additional Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)​​  

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.  

3+ years of developing and executing manual and automated tests for mobile applications on iOS or Android. 

Experience with TCM and Defect Tracking tools such as BrowserStack, ADO, JIRA, TestRail, or Zephyr 

Experience using mobile test automation platforms and frameworks (e.g., BrowserStack, Perfecto Mobile, Appium, Espresso, XCUITest). 

Experience with Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket for managing test scripts. 

Experience ensuring compatibility across multiple devices and operating system combinations. 

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)​  

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.  

3+ years of developing and executing manual and automated tests for mobile applications on iOS orAndroid. 

Mobile test automation experience on a large consumer application in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store 

BrowserStack expertise – Hands-on experience with BrowserStack for mobile device testing - both manual and automated functional tests 

Gherkin – proficiency in writing test scenarios using Gherkin using a declarative style 

Page Object Model– strong understanding of the Page Object Model (POM) for structuring automation tests. 

Programming skills in Java with experience in writing automated test scripts for mobile applications using Appium 

CI/CD Integration – experience integrating tests with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI/CD. 

Understanding of network conditions, throttling, offline testing and using tools like Charles, Fiddler, Wireshark to observe mobile to microservice interactions 

API Testing – familiarity with tools like Postman, RestAssured, Karate , for API automation testing and manual manipulation 

Experience with multiple test frameworks – Robot , Gherkin, Detox 

Performance Testing – familiarity with JMeter, Gatling, or k6 for mobile performance testing. 

Experience testing wearable applications – Apple Watch, Android Wear 

Experience testing integration with external hardware devices 

AI/ML in Testing – knowledge of AI-powered test automation tools for visual and functional testing. 

Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and ability to collaborate with developers and product teams. 

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. 

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate. 

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington. 

The salary range for this role is $95,000 to $171,800. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position. 

Bonus Potential: An incentive pays program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance. 

Benefits: 

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more. 

About GM

Our 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.

Why Join Us 

We 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.

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Company

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General Motors

At General Motors, we are passionate about earning customers for life.  This vision unites us as a team each and every day and is the hallmark of our customer-driven culture. In fact, there are a lot of exciting things to share about our company.  Our story starts on November 18, 2010, when we completed the world’s largest initial public offering, emerging with a solid financial foundation that enables us to produce great vehicles for our customers and build a bright future for employees, partners and shareholders.

Leading the way is our seasoned leadership team who set high standards for our company so that we can give you the best cars and trucks.  This means that we are committed to delivering vehicles with compelling designs, flawless quality and reliability, and leading safety, fuel economy and infotainment features.  All are intended to create that special bond that can only happen between a driver and their vehicle. Making the world’s best vehicles can only happen with the world’s greatest employees.  We take great pride in our work, and take great care to deliver exceptional cars and a positive ownership experience to our customers around the world.