Chapter Area Lead – Software Testing and Test Automation
Bosch · Posted Nov 2
Mobility, industrial technology, consumer goods, and energy and building technology services
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About the role
Bosch Digital’s Software Engineering Chapter Domain includes the Software Testing & Test Automation Chapter Area, which owns professional methods, standards, expertise development and functional excellence across delivery organizations. The area covers test automation, functional testing, load and performance testing, and test architecture, with a focus on end-to-end quality engineering, meaningful automation and reusable enablers. This role is a senior technology and people leader responsible for setting the professional direction, evolving testing standards, leading Chapter Leads, building the competence portfolio and driving adoption of quality engineering practices.
What you will do
- Set the professional direction for software testing and test automation, translating business needs and technology developments into a clear capability strategy and roadmap.
- Define and evolve testing standards, methods, reference practices and guardrails while allowing teams appropriate flexibility for their product and delivery context.
- Lead, coach and develop Chapter Leads; strengthen succession, leadership capability and a culture of ownership, feedback and continuous learning.
- Build the required competence portfolio through recruiting, workforce planning, upskilling and reskilling, ensuring that expertise is available where business risk and demand are highest.
- Represent the Chapter Area toward the Software Engineering Chapter Domain, Product and Business Alliances, Tribes, regions and customers as a senior expert and thought leader.
- Drive reuse and cross-organizational adoption of test frameworks, practices and engineering enablers instead of fragmented project-specific solutions.
- Shape the evolution of AI-enabled quality engineering, continuous testing, automation, performance, security and reliability practices.
- Balance professional excellence with capacity, staffing, skill mix, utilization, cost and measurable business value.
- Several years of substantial leadership experience in software engineering, IT, digital product development or a comparable technology environment.
- Experience leading leaders, multiple teams or a broad professional community rather than only one delivery team.
- A strong record of developing people, building capability and enabling others to take ownership.
- Experience influencing across functions, regions and organizational boundaries without relying solely on formal authority.
- Recognized senior expertise in software testing, test automation or quality engineering.
- Deep understanding of software-development lifecycles, risk-based testing, test design and test-automation architecture.
- Practical knowledge across several areas: API and integration testing, functional and non-functional testing, load and performance testing, CI/CD and DevOps, test environments and data, quality metrics, secure software practices, reliability engineering.
- Ability to evaluate emerging approaches, including AI-assisted testing, and separate sustainable engineering improvements from short-lived tooling trends.
- Ability to translate technology and market developments into an actionable capability strategy.
- Sound judgment on where global standards and reuse create value and where local flexibility is necessary.
- Experience anticipating competence gaps and steering recruiting, development and deployment priorities.
- Confidence working with workforce supply and demand, capacity, staffing, investment priorities and measurable outcomes.
- Ability to explain complex engineering and quality topics in clear business terms.
- Confidence facilitating decisions where quality, delivery speed, capacity, cost and risk compete.
- Credibility with testing experts, engineering leaders, Product Owners, Product and Service Managers, architects and senior business stakeholders.
- Excellent English and the ability to work effectively across cultures and time zones.
- You grow by growing others and coach leaders instead of solving every problem personally.
- You lead through expertise, credibility and purpose, creating autonomy through clear alignment.
- You combine high technical standards with pragmatism, customer orientation and business judgment.
- You actively give and seek constructive feedback and create room for experimentation and learning.
- You remain effective in ambiguity, resolve conflicts constructively and take accountability for decisions.
- You think globally, are capable of managing multicultural teams, respect different contexts and build trusted networks across boundaries.
- University degree in computer science, software engineering, engineering, business information systems or a comparable discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Significant professional experience in software engineering and quality engineering, including responsibility beyond a single product or project.
- Leadership experience in an international, distributed technology organization.
- Excellent English; additional languages are an advantage.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- BE, BTech, ME, MTech, MBA
- 15+ years of relevant experience
- Leadership skills
Preferred qualifications
- Bosch experience
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Bosch
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services, operating across mobility, industrial technology, consumer goods, and energy and building technology sectors. Driven by its purpose to create technology that is "Invented for life," the company leverages its expertise in hardware, software, and IoT to shape global trends such as automation, electrification, and artificial intelligence.
- Industry
- Automotive
- Company size
- 406225 employees
- Founded
- 1886
- Location
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Leadership
Chairman of the Board of Management
Deputy Chairman and Chief Financial Officer
Markus Heyn
Deputy Chairman and Chairman of Mobility
Frank Meyer
Member of the Board of Management
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