Working Student / Intern – Test Automation Engineer for Automotive Infotain

at  MBition GmbH

Your Mission
MBition, Mercedes–Benz is bringing the automotive industry into the future! How?
We are working on a software-defined architecture, that allows us to create state-of-the-art customer functions that span one or more domain controllers with significant processing power. One of these high-performance domain controllers is used for automated driving functions (e.g. automated driving on highways).
We do this in Berlin and Sindelfingen as a 100% subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz AG, which has been perfecting the art of moving people, products and services from A to B for more than 120 years.
With an international team of 500 employees, we want to integrate people who appreciate quality, creativity and teamwork just as much as we do. Together we create passionate technology on exciting topics like: automated and autonomous driving, infotainment systems or mobile APPs. And we need YOU to help us shape the future!
Sneak preview of your future tasks
You are looking for a challenging but also interesting internship / working student position, that lets you dive deep into software verification, more specifically how it is automated. You are interested in furthering your knowledge of software design and architecture by helping us improve various test automation frameworks and libraries that will verify the quality of the software on different levels.
If this sounds like it fits, then this is your chance!
The test enablement team is looking for an intern / working student to support our software verification process by helping develop and maintain our test automation toolchain.

Your responsibilities will involve:

• Implement and maintain libraries and toolchains that support our test engineers and developers to run automated test cases
• Help define the architecture of new libraries/improve the architecture of existing libraries
• Develop an understanding of what our end users require our infrastructure to do, and translate that to code
• Support our end users by analyzing bugs of the automation toolchain
• Help your colleagues with the analysis of the test infrastructure and derive improvement recommendations
• Write documentation describing new and existing code
• Work closely with a cross-functional team collaborating with you to optimize our software testing process
• Be a key player in our user-driven culture

Your Profile

Education

• You continue your Bachelor or Master studies (or equivalent) in computer science, electronic engineering or a comparable relevant education or significant expertise that enables you to fill this role.

Must-Have:

• Strong interest in embedded software/system testing, or test automation in general
• Understanding of SOLID principles, or other software design principles
• OOP experience. Python is preferred, but not mandatory

Nice to have

• Experience in software development and/or testing from i.e. university projects
• Experience in automating tasks (projects, or day-to-day work)
• Experience or interest in: automotive diagnosis, networking, git, CI/CD

Personal Skills

• You enjoy taking initiative in order to find solutions to technical problems
• You have strong analytical skills and can break down complex problems into concise and measurable pieces.
• You have good communication/presentation skills, are team oriented and reliable
• Self-organized and highly collaborative
• Flexible and can-do attitude
• Continuous learning attitude

Language skills

• Fluent English

Why us?

• A chance to work on a new generation of Infotainment Systems, which will power millions of cars.
• An international, interdisciplinary innovation lab, which is part of the Mercedes-Benz AG.
• Agile working methods and open feedback culture.
• A brand new modern and fully accessible office facing the Spree.
• Flexible working hours.
• Free coffee, fruits, social events, and more.

Interested?

We look forward to receiving your complete application, including CV (in English or German) and relevant references with the following information:

• Job title and reference number.
• Salary expectations.
• Earliest start date.

We would like to encourage people with health impairments to apply to our jobs! Our building and work places offer the possibilities to adjust to different employee requirements

• Implement and maintain libraries and toolchains that support our test engineers and developers to run automated test cases
• Help define the architecture of new libraries/improve the architecture of existing libraries
• Develop an understanding of what our end users require our infrastructure to do, and translate that to code
• Support our end users by analyzing bugs of the automation toolchain
• Help your colleagues with the analysis of the test infrastructure and derive improvement recommendations
• Write documentation describing new and existing code
• Work closely with a cross-functional team collaborating with you to optimize our software testing process
• Be a key player in our user-driven cultur