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Job Summary: Manage Validation and verification (V&V) activities across complex, multi-disciplinary projects. This role ensures that system-level requirements are thoroughly validated using industry-standard methodologies, automation tools, and collaborative engineering practices. The V&V Principal Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the quality, performance, and reliability of transit and embedded systems.

Key Responsibilities:

System-Level V&V Leadership

• Lead end-to-end validation and verification planning, execution, and reporting.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to define and trace system requirements to test cases.
• Drive integration, formal system testing, and procedure validation activities.

Team & Resource Management

• Manage and mentor V&V engineers, overseeing daily activities and performance.
• Identify test resource needs and manage V&V schedules and budgets.

Test Strategy & Execution

• Develop and maintain V&V plans, test cases, procedures, and reports.
• Validate software builds and perform test administration.
• Maintain and enhance the System Test Environment (STE).

Automation & Tools

• Design and implement automated test suites using:
  • Playwright
  • Selenium
  • Cypress
  • Robot Framework
  • RestAssured
  • Postman
  • PyTest
  • Katalon Studio
  • TestNG
• Perform API testing and SQL-based data validation.
• Utilize tools such as TestRail, JIRA, Git, Jenkins, and scripting languages for test management and execution.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Interface with hardware, software, and systems engineering teams to evaluate test alternatives.
• Lead Test Readiness Reviews and present V&V status to internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage and resolve system-level ARQs and issues.

Continuous Improvement

• Stay updated on industry best practices in V&V and test automation.
• Evaluate vendor capabilities and contribute to procurement decisions.
• Drive process improvements and standardization across V&V activities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Technology (B.Tech) or Master’s in Computer Applications (MCA) or related field.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in software/system testing, including manual and automated testing.
• Proven experience in validation and verification of complex engineering or embedded systems.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile, and V-model methodologies.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in Transit domain or Automated Fare Collection Systems (AFCS).
• Proficiency in Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, API testing, SQL, C++, C#, Java, UNIX, TCP/IP, VB.
• Hands-on experience with TestRail, JIRA, and test automation frameworks.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Generative AI: Exposure to GenAI/ML tools for testing (e.g., GitHub Copilot)
• BDD: Familiarity with Behavior-Driven Development frameworks like Cucumber
• Performance Testing: Basic knowledge of performance testing tools such as JMeter
• ISTQB Foundation level or above.

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