Cyber Security Specialist

Looking for specialization - Cybersecurity Testing

About CARIAD (Car, I Am Digital)

CARIAD is an automotive software company that bundles together Volkswagen Group's software competencies and further expands them, building upon a heritage of bringing automotive innovation to everyone. CARIAD is building a unified technology and software platform, including a vehicle OS, vehicle cloud platform and a new unified architecture for all of Volkswagen Group’s brands. The brand profile can be found on its website - https://cariad.technology

CARIAD India operates under a brand licensing agreement with Germany-based CARIAD SE. So, here’s a chance to innovate and transform automotive mobility!

You'll join a team of 500+ skilled experts and developers at CARIAD India and around 6,000 CARIDIANs globally, who bring with them a wealth of experience and knowledge. The areas of work involve the development of platform components such as firmware, boot loaders, AUTOSAR, Linux/QNX BSP, Service oriented architecture-based middleware components.

To explore an exciting & progressive career at CARIAD India: Visit us at: www.embitel.com Follow us at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/268681/

Skills Required:

• Proven experience in components testing in the automotive domain (ECUs, vehicle platforms, integration).
• Hands-on experience in Python scripting, Robot Framework and test automation tools.
• Strong understanding of Vehicle networking protocols (CAN, SOME-IP, TLS etc),
• Experience in Automotive Cybersecurity and understanding of ISO/SAE 21434 (with familiarity in IDS)
• Experience in Access control, Firewall, Network Segmentation, CAN Bus Security, Ethernet Security, Secure Communication and, OTA.
• Hands-on experience with Xray in JIRA or Codebeamer for test case management.
• Experience in working in Agile environments (SAFe / Scrum / Kanban)
• Experience in creating test runs and structured test reports.
• Basic knowledge of backend tools (like Databricks) and ability to execute SQL queries for data validation.
• Proficiency in Linux environment, Python and experience in tooling support skills or scripting (shell scripting, etc.)
• Ability to collaborate with cross‑functional and international teams, and clearly communicate findings.
• Strong documentation and reporting skills.
• Analytical and structured problem-solving skills with attention to detail and problem-solving attitude.
• Good to have experience with Scapy - network packages construction (Ethernet/VLAN/IPv6/TCP/UDP/ICMPv6/DoIP)
• Good to have familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Docker).

Key Responsibilities

• Perform component, integration, and execute manual and automated end-to-end testing for automotive systems.
• Analyze and validate CAN messages, system triggers, and testing of for Intrusion Detection System (IDS) including setting up of test setups and maintaining hardware.
• Develop and maintain tests as part of an international product team, being responsible for the quality of the tests and their results.
• Support in the validation of products, prototypes, MVPs, vehicle-level test and official end-to-end validation activities
• Manage and track test cases in Xray (JIRA) – creation, update, execution, traceability with requirements/implementation JIRA tickets and result documentation.
• Trigger and monitor test runs, ensuring all test evidence and results are documented.
• Create detailed test reports for project stakeholders.
• Collaborate with developers and CI/CD engineers to simulate environments (e.g., SOME-IPs, system triggers).
• Perform cloud-related validation (Backend tool usage (eg Databricks), running SQL queries for validation).
• Develop automation using Python and write helper scripts in scripting languages such as Shell.
• Collaborate with IDS teams continuously improving the tooling and processes and solving potential roadblocks.
• Articulation of security findings and presenting to project stakeholders.