V&V Senior Engineer

The Senior V&V Engineer prepares test plans, test completion reports, and daily test status reports, ensuring adherence to best practices for test execution, requirements traceability, and defect reporting. This customer-facing role involves representing Cubic at test status meetings, responding to customer inquiries, and fostering collaborative relationships. Responsibilities include developing manual and automated tests, conducting various levels of testing (subsystem, system, user, end-to-end), documenting results, liaising with engineering and customers, and overseeing test personnel.

Must Have

• Prepare detailed functional test specifications.
• Develop manual and automated tests using industry-standard tools.
• Conduct subsystem, system, user-level, and end-to-end testing.
• Document test results and share findings with stakeholders.
• Liaise with engineering and customers on testing projects.
• Coordinate and oversee test personnel, report defects.
• Prepare and issue various test reports (completion, status, reliability, environmental).
• Maintain test configuration environments.
• Solid experience in Product test or QA environment.
• Experience with manual, exploratory, automated, and test-driven testing.
• Proficiency in TestRail and Jira.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Ability to write clear reports and use Word, Excel, Databases.
• Experience with Windows, Linux, SQL, Basic UNIX, and Confluence.
• Bachelor's in engineering or equivalent experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience.
• ISTQB Foundation certification.

Good to Have

• Relevant industry/product knowledge
• Experience in the Transport or automotive industry testing
• Knowledge of Serial and TCP/IP comms protocols and configuration
• Agile/Scrum experience
• Participate in interviews for recruitment
• Linux Shell scripting
• Use of Project Planning Tools
• Awareness of Smart/Payment Card technology and public key encryption technologies
• Man management experience

Business Unit:

Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details:

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details:

Job Summary:

The Senior V&V Engineer role is required to prepare test plans, test completion reports, and daily test status reports as required. The role will ensure that team members adhere to best practices for test execution, requirements traceability, and defect reporting.  As this is a customer-facing role, the role will occasionally be required to represent Cubic’s interests at various test status meetings and respond to customer enquiries related to testing, whilst maintaining and building a good collaborative working relationship with the customer.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare detailed functional test specifications for both device and system tests
• Provide input and/or conduct Performance Reviews
• Set and coordinate training activities to ensure that the applicable Test personnel’s skills and knowledge are continuously improving.
• Work to eliminate the single points of failure within the knowledge base within the department.
• Ensure that adequate training material is available through video clips, slide decks, and Confluence pages. This material is to be reviewed and maintained on a regular basis.
• Record and report the results of the training progress of applicable Test personnel
• Conduct interviews as required
• Use industry-standard test tools to develop manual and automated tests in a variety of programming languages
• Conduct subsystem, system, and user-level testing
• Conduct end-to-end testing
• Document test results and share findings with development teams and project stakeholders
• Liaise with the Engineering departments and customers with regard to the testing of projects
• Conduct tests both in-house and in the presence of the customer
• Prepare and conduct in-house reliability tests
• Coordinate and oversee the work of applicable Test personnel, collating results and reporting defects
• Attend project test reviews
• Prepare and conduct environmental tests
• Prepare and issue test reports
• Perform Defect Reviews and ensure that they are conducted regularly
• Prepare and maintain the test configuration environments
• Provide Bid estimation support for all departmental activities
• Provide resource allocation input
• Support with the automation of testing activities
• Comply with Cubic’s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures.  In particular, comply with the code of conduct, quality, security, and occupational health, safety, and environmental policies and procedures.
• In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their Manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them.

Skills, knowledge, and experience:

Essential:

• Solid previous experience within a Product test or QA environment.
• Experience of manual and exploratory testing
• Experience in building and executing test cases and plans
• Experience using TestRail and Jira
• Experience with testing methods, including test-driven development and automated testing
• Experience of each stage of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Effectiveness within the previous role of ensuring software is released with a minimum of defects reaching the customer
• Ability to write good reports and general word processing skills (Word, Excel, Databases).
• Good day-to-day planning skills, coordination, and control under pressure.
• To work equally well on their own as well as within a team.
• Windows and Linux experience
• Working knowledge of SQL, Basic UNIX, and Confluence.

Desirable:

• Relevant industry/product knowledge
• Experience in the Transport or automotive industry testing
• Knowledge of Serial and TCP/IP comms protocols and configuration
• Agile/Scrum experience
• Participate in interviews for recruitment
• Linux Shell scripting
• Use of Project Planning Tools
• Awareness of Smart/Payment Card technology and public key encryption technologies
• Man management experience

Education and qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline OR relevant industry experience.
• Six (6)+ years of relevant experience.
• ISTQB Foundation.

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements.  Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

Worker Type:

Employee