Test Planner

Job Title: Test Planner
 
About Kyyba:
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances.
At Kyyba, the overall well-being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values; incorporating value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creates a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower our employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility that they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development. 
 
Job Description
 
Who we are looking for
The Vehicle Test Planning Engineer role will manage the vehicle testing that occurs between various teams during the vehicle development process, help coordinate seasonal testing activities, and manage the vehicle test fleet to complete all deliverables to the product timing plan.
 
 
What you get to do

• Test planning, vehicle test plan usage optimization, and coordination for all CLIENT product development activities like DV/PV testing, prototype evaluations and drive evaluations that support with program gateways and milestones.
• Manage testing priorities with various teams and coordinate vehicle test usage and location of testing between teams.
• Coordinate seasonal testing vehicle usage including Summer and Winter testing.
• Coordinate test execution across multiple internal and external test facilities
• Help organize and execute benchmarking activities on competitive vehicles
• Manage and optimize test timing, vehicle uptime, and test completion by vehicle availability and testing that needs to be done for a vehicle program
• Coordinate durability, corrosion, body (interior & exterior), vehicle dynamics, NVH, weight, Aero/thermal, weight, safety, NVH, propulsion, chassis, electrical, brake controls testing activities.
• Manage the entire test vehicle fleet including competitors vehicles throughout the whole vehicle lifecycle, consisting of vehicle check-in/purchase, documentation, tracking, and disposal.
• Coordinate test vehicle access requests from other CLIENT Teams.
• Manage vehicle fleet to make sure each of the users and vehicles are ok to test per the plan
• Support vehicle testing activities as needed throughout the vehicle development process.
• Create and present clear & concise vehicle uptime and usage status and technical reports.
• Help coordinate fleet updates (hardware and software) and optimize testing and uptime.

• Associates or Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• 6-8 years of experience with Vehicle test planning capability.  
• Excellent communication, Team building and relationship building skills.  
• Ability to lead teams and meetings through technical tradeoffs and optimized solutions with attention to detail.  
• Broad vehicle technical and vehicle development process knowledge.
• Technical writing and documentation experience  
• Functional experience with all regulatory requirements, vehicle level requirements, and system level testing run on Body bucks.
• Experience with EV propulsion systems, high-voltage systems, and Brake Controls

• An INC 5000 company for 10 years
• Corp! Michigan Economic Bright Spots 
• Crain’s Detroit Business Top Staffing Service Companies in Detroit
• TechServe Alliance Excellence Award- IT and Engineering Staffing & Solutions
• Best of MichBusiness winner in HR Wizards & Partnerships
• Metro Detroit Elite Category: Recruitment, Selection & Orientation for 101 Best & Brightest
• 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work for in Michigan