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.
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.

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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