Position Title: System Test and Validation Engineer Duration: Contract Location: Gaydon Duties: Our Client are looking for a driven and passionate System Test and Validation Engineer to join them in developing a truly exciting and forward‑thinking product-one you can believe in, advocate for, and take pride in delivering. This role sits at the heart of our connected car platform, which underpins our luxury vehicles and delivers seamless digital experiences to their customers. You will take ownership of validating system features that enable this platform, ensuring high quality, robustness, and a defect‑free user experience from concept through to delivery. You will play a key role in shaping validation strategies and continuously improving test processes, with a strong focus on automation, reuse of existing test assets, and leveraging established validation practices across the business. Working on their current technology landscape, you'll be part of an ambitious transformation-evolving today's features into next‑generation digital capabilities that will help take the Client into a new digital era and support their journey toward a carbon‑neutral fleet this decade. In short, the Client are seeking someone with a genuine passion for the automotive industry-an engineer who is confident making decisions, takes ownership, and operates independently without reliance on escalation or close supervision. You will join a highly collaborative, non‑hierarchical team culture that lives our company values and is united by a shared goal: delivering exceptional, innovative features for our customers. Creating detailed test plans to align with software release plans. Leading the test team, setting priorities and monitoring progress of test plans. Designing test cases and scenarios to ensure requirement coverage. Review test artifacts to ensure quality and consistency of test cases, test scripts and test reports. Driving the test execution and reporting test results. End to end testing on vehicles to ensure feature has achieved delivery maturity. Tracking defects and liaising with both internal and external teams to ensure timely resolution Skills: Test strategy and test planning at system level with focus on real-world usage scenarios and failure modes. Defect Lifecycle management. Strong hands-on understanding of automotive architecture and protocols like CAN, Ethernet (SomeIP/DoIP) Experience in using logging and measurement tools like Vector CANoe, Intrepid, etc. Vehicle and test rig level experience including flashing ECUs. Understanding of automotive systems, practices and procedures Why work through Contechs? Contechs is a leading Automotive, Design, Engineering, Technology and Innovation Recruitment Consultancy. Founded in 1997, with an inhouse Contractor Care Team to support all external employees, acts as an employment agency for permanent and contract recruitment. How to Apply If you're interested in applying for this position, submit your application and one of our recruiters will be in touch. If you know anyone that is suitable for the role, please visit the below page where we offer up to £600 referral fee: https://www.contechs.com/refer