Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute manual and automated test cases for the automotive assistant across infotainment, navigation, climate control, and vehicle settings.
• Validate voice recognition, intent detection, and response accuracy under varying acoustic and environmental conditions.
• Collaborate with developers, UX designers, and system engineers to define test strategies, test coverage, and quality benchmarks.
• Ensure compliance with automotive standards such as ASPICE.
• Analyze logs, trace data, and assistant behaviour to identify bugs, performance bottlenecks, and user experience issues.
• Support customer joint test sessions, field trials, and OTA update validation.

Required Qualifications:

• Fluency in both German(Native) and English (spoken and written) is mandatory.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in software QA, preferably in automotive or embedded systems.
• Experience with test automation tools (e.g., Robot Framework, Selenium, Appium)
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional, and safety-critical environment.
• Good to have familiarity with voice assistant platforms, natural language processing, and AI model testing.

Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and ) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world. Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world's leading automakers – from Ford and Fiat Chrysler to Daimler, Audi and BMW to Geely and SAIC – to transform how a car feels, responds and learns. Its track record is built on more than 20 years of industry experience and leadership and more than 500 million cars on the road today across more than 70 languages.  

As Cerence looks to the future and continues an ambitious growth agenda, we need someone to join the team and help build the future of voice and AI in cars. This is an exciting opportunity to join Cerence's passionate, dedicated, global team and be a part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry. 

Cerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications. Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

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