V&V Principal Engineer

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 12+ 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.