Job Description

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.

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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Worker Type:

Employee

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We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law.