Test Strategy Technical Specialist, AD/ADAS
Woven by Toyota1 month ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Define test strategies for autonomous driving software and related vehicle functions.
- Analyze system requirements and select verification and validation methods, including simulation, closed-course, proving-ground, and on-road testing.
- Lead validation planning covering test scope, objectives, coverage, and acceptance criteria.
- Lead technical discussions with software development, system engineering, test execution, validation, and tool teams.
- Prioritize testing based on risk, safety impact, system complexity, and development phase.
- Provide technical guidance to validation engineers and test teams without requiring direct people management.
- Create and continuously improve system-level test methods and best practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in system verification, validation, performance testing, or quality engineering for AD/ADAS.
- Experience defining test strategies from system requirements and selecting appropriate test methods or environments.
- Strong understanding of system-level behavior, interfaces, performance metrics, and end-to-end software behavior.
- Understanding of simulation-based testing and real-vehicle testing.
- Experience analyzing logs, metrics, traces, and test results to identify defects, regressions, and requirements or coverage gaps.
- Experience leading testing activities through influence rather than direct people management or personally executing every test.
- Practical experience with automated testing, regression testing, and continuous integration environments using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Basic knowledge of C++ and Python.
- Business-level communication skills in English and Japanese.
- Preferred: knowledge of automotive software development and safety processes such as ISO 26262, ASPICE, AUTOSAR, MISRA, or SOTIF.
- Preferred: familiarity with requirements management tools such as JAMA.
- Preferred: experience leading test architecture, test strategy, or quality improvement initiatives as an individual contributor.
- Preferred: experience evaluating machine-learning models, including performance metrics, dataset quality, edge cases, regression, and model behavior in safety-critical systems.
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience.
- Flexible working time.
- 20 days of paid holiday per year, prorated.
- 6 days of sick leave per year, prorated.
- Weekends, Japanese national holidays, and other company-defined holidays off.
- Japanese social insurance, including health insurance, pension, workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, and long-term care insurance.
- Housing allowance, retirement benefits, and rental car support.
- In-house software and language training programs.
- Interviews are conducted via Google Meet unless otherwise stated; applicants may submit an English or Japanese resume, with English preferred.
- Equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.
About Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota exists to accelerate Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation from a car company into a mobility company. Rooted in a legacy of reinvention, we carry forward a singular founding principle: to innovate for the benefit of others. Today, we are driving this transformation from two vantage points: redefining how vehicles are built, experienced, and connected to the world to realize a true software-defined vehicle, and reimagining how people, goods, information, and energy move and interact in society to empower individuals from all walks of life. Through these two lenses, we combine bold innovation with real-world execution, bridging the gap between present and future to help Toyota evolve its business and its role in society.