We are looking for a PLM Test Lead (Smart Product Platform) for a global manufacturing company in Lund with 50% remote work possibility.

Start is in June 2026, 10 months limited contract to begin with.

Role Overview

The Smart Product Platform Test Lead (Consultant) is engaged on a time-bound basis to oversee the entire testing lifecycle of our new SPP software Development. They are responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering high quality testing activities for our solution involving PTC Windchill, Inventor and Creo. This role ensures that system functionality, integrations, and business processes are thoroughly validated, enabling a stable, compliant, and user-ready PLM solution.

The consultant will bring immediate hands-on expertise, working with minimal supervision to plan and facilitate the User Acceptance Tests and reduce risk to our PLM initiative.

Scope of Work

Define testing strategies, create test plans, assign tasks, manage risks, and report on quality metrics. Act as a leader focused on both technical testing excellence and team leadership, ensuring high-quality product delivery, including:

• Lead end-to-end testing activities for PTC Windchill implementations, upgrades, and enhancements

• Define and own the test strategy, test plans, schedules, and entry/exit criteria

• Manage system, integration, regression, performance, and user acceptance testing (UAT)

• Coordinate testing across Windchill modules (e.g., PDMLink, MPMLink, ProjectLink) and integrations with ERP, CAD (Creo), or other enterprise systems

• Review and validate business and technical requirements to ensure test coverage

• Design, review, and maintain test cases, test scenarios, and test data

• Lead defect management including triage, prioritisation, root-cause analysis, and retesting

• Communicate test progress, risks, and quality metrics to stakeholders

• Support UAT by guiding business users, managing test cycles, and ensuring signoff readiness

• Drive quality best practices and continuous improvement within the testing lifecycle'

Required Experience & Skills

• Proven experience as a Test Lead or Senior Test Analyst

• Hands-on experience testing PTC Windchill (configuration, workflows, lifecycle states, access control)

• Understanding of PLM business processes (Change Management, BOMs, Document Management)

• Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies and SDLC (Agile and/or Waterfall)

• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jira, HP ALM)

• Excellent stakeholder communication and coordination skills

• Experience testing Windchill upgrades, migrations, or cloud deployments

• Exposure to CAD/PLM integrations (Inventor, Creo, SAP)

Desirable (Not Mandatory)

• Experience with Windchill upgrades or legacy-to-cloud PLM transitions

• Background in complex engineering or regulated environments

• ISTQB or equivalent testing certification

• Automation testing experience for PLM systems

This is a full-time consultant position in Lund through Incluso. Start is in June 2026, 10-month limited contract to begin with, with possibility of extension after that.

Please submit your CV as soon as possible since we will review the applications on an on-going basis.

For more information about this role, please contact Kanika Singhal recruiter at Incluso.