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 be occasionally 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.
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