Define, maintain, and enforce V&V strategy, technical standards/rules, and best practices.
Ensure V&V strategies are aligned with product requirements, operating profiles, and customer use cases.
Act as Design Authority for V&V, test automation, and performance verification approaches.
Chair and lead verification and performance-focused design reviews.
Review and approve test architectures, performance test plans, and readiness for major milestones.
Provide formal technical sign-off for V&V and performance readiness.
Lead architecture and evolution of automated test frameworks supporting functional and performance validation and verification.
Define scalable test infrastructure capable of validating real-world product workloads.
Drive automation across: Unit and component testing and system-level test environments Automated performance, stress, and endurance testing.
Analyse verification gaps, defect escape data, and field feedback to identify systemic issues.
Improve early detection of performance and integration defects.
Define and track metrics for verification effectiveness, including performance-related escapes.
Lead or support investigation of performance-related and system-level issues discovered during development or in deployed products.

Bachelor's Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) from an accredited college or university.
Significant and demonstrated years of experience in verification, validation, and test automation for embedded or industrial systems.
Proven experience verifying product-level performance in real-time systems.
Expertise designing automated test frameworks, including performance and stress testing.
Demonstrated success reducing performance-related defect escapes.
Experience acting as a technical authority in a global organisation.
Excellent communication and technical leadership skills in a global, matrixed organisation.

Principal Engineer – Verification, Validation & Test Automation

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