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Experience Required: 6 years in Automotive Software Dev/Quality 3 years in Program Mgmt., Expert in Proj Mgr Education Required: Bachelor's Degree ## Description * Design, build and maintain the project plan including scope, schedule, budget and risk management. * Lead the gathering of product requirements and project scope in a holistic manner across multiple teams or business functions. * Monitor progress to plan and design a recovery strategy if project deviates from baseline plan. * Assemble and publish effective status reports able to serve a variety of audiences from project team member to Executive. * Design and deliver Executive-level presentations to support the governance process for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). * Design and run effective program-level meetings to communicate status and coordinate efforts. * Collaborate with peers, managers and team members across the organization to solve problems, develop plans and coordinate work * Promotes and encourages collaboration and transparency and builds trusting relationships between business, delivery and other entities within the organization. * Plays an instrumental role in the organizations Agile transformation, acts as a change agent and shows strong leadership skills with a positive and collaborative attitude * Developing test cycle plan, schedule, and timeline. * Define project scope by prioritizing features/Platform system under test considering the Product Direction Letter, program priorities, and the test strategy and policy. * Build, manage the product backlog, and keep product backlog transparent to the team to ensure it is understood. * Leads the initiative of creating Test Epics for the features/Platform System as part of the preparation for the PI Planning meeting and continues it during the Team Breakout Session. * Participating in Scrum events and collaborating with the team Conduct retrospectives on completed projects to support process, policy and tool-set improvements * Evaluating feedback at each iteration. * Hardware Configuration Management * Define and specify the required vehicle variants to support the scope of the test project * Plan, procure and maintain vehicle components including surrogate, prototype, and instrumented parts * Analyze bills of materials of target program and donor programs to identify surrogate parts, minimize ordering of unnecessary parts, and exclude simulated component * Procure and coordinate hardware updates * Software Configuration Management Define * test cycles in line with software release schedules, the software change management process, and prototype software delivery * Maintain obtaining ARXML file and communicate the updated file to the modelling and interface team. * Perform software updates * Communicate software release information to the test team * Communication Management Main point of contact for the test organization and the electrical program management team * Monitor and report progress of the test project execution, software maturity, and vehicle hardware and software defects (All P0, P1 defects should be discussed in Program Scrum meeting) * Regular analysis to Jira dashboard to understand progress and program overall health * Follow up\\Manage incident lifecycle to ensure timely incident disposition. ## Related Videos - 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