Principal Test Engineer

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).
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Job Details: As a Principal Test Engineer (Test Lead), you will be responsible for driving planning and execution of key projects Verification and Validation (V&V) activities across New Zealand for Cubic in the Automated Fare Collections domain.You will lead planning and execution to ensure high quality software and system performance.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will provide technical leadership, mentor testers, enhance testing frameworks, and drive defect management plans to align with global best practices.
You will report to the New Zealand V&V Manager who reports into the Global V&V organization.
Job Summary: This position will be responsible for identifying hardware & software defects and inconsistencies in functionality against defined performance measures and to progress and verify that the system meets and conforms to the System / Sub-System requirements and solution design documents.
This role is responsible for the technical planning, coordination and conduct of test activities at the system level across all projects.
This incumbent will interface with Central Computer and Device software development, System Integration testing, Project Engineers, System Deployment, hardware engineering and production engineering to develop system requirements analysis, system configuration data and automated test activities to ensure required system performance and reliability standards are designed in and verified.
The essential function is to drive design, development and test activities from the system requirements view.
This position typically works under minimal supervision and direction.
Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: Develop test plans and procedures aligned to system and subsystem requirements Develop test cases and scenarios to perform functional and non-functional (performance, capacity, stress, load, and stability) testing Conduct dry run of test scripts and formal testing to verify system stability and functionality prior to formal Systems Acceptance Testing (SAT) and customer witnessing Conduct regression testing to ensure system has not regressed after software updates and changes have been made to the system Work independently on projects Lead a program of work, working closely with Principal Engineers and Project Managers Be the Test SME for multiple projects/domains and the go-to for test expertise Defect tracking and resolution Develop Test Plans (Both Functional and non-Functional) Prepare and issue system test reports Responsible for system integration activities, and maintaining configuration control in the test environments Work closely with business architects, system developers and engineering staff with regard to development of test deliverables, system functionality and issues Work closely with business architects, system developers and engineering staff in preparation of test cases and test scripts Work with external/internal clients or consultants, architects, system engineers, carefully managing requirements, expectations and delivery of agreed outcomes Appropriately escalate unresolvable issues to engineering management Coordinate task estimation for feeding into cost models and project schedules for existing programs and new bids Highly proactive identification and assignment of test and operational issues and help in resolving them General Duties and Responsibilities: Comply with Cubic's Quality Management SystemComply with Cubic Occupational Health, Safety and Environment policies and proceduresComply with security in accordance with established policies and procedures of the organizationsComply with Cubic Human Resources ProceduresOther duties as requestedMinimum Job Requirements: QualificationsEssential:Bachelor's degree or equivalent, preferably in Science or EngineeringISTQB Foundation CertificationDesirable:ISTQB Advanced CertificationProject/Program Management Certification (e.g.
PRINCE2)Skills/Experience/KnowledgeEssential:Minimum of 8 years' experience within a systems test, software testing and processes environment in large projects.Experienced in writing of SQL queries and oracle databasesDetailed knowledge of the various aspects of system and software testing processesFamiliar with word processing packagesFamiliar with planning toolsExperience in using test management tools to develop, write and editing of test plans, test cases and test scriptsExperience in using defect tracking toolsExcellent Communication, Documentation and Record Keeping skills a mustDesirable:Experience within the transportation sector, Automated Fare Collection Systems, or financial sector.Experience with ticketing systems and/or public transportation operation.Experience with Test Automation frameworks and/or Java programmingPersonal QualitiesSelf-motivatedDiligent and pragmaticAbility to work on own initiative and under pressureAbility to communicate at all levelsStrong influential and interpersonal skillsConfident, professional effective communicatorStrong customer focusTeam playerStrong leadership skillsExcellent Stakeholder management skillsHave the flexibility to travel when requiredCondition of Employment:Successful outcome of a National Police CheckThe 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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