V&V 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). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details:

Job Summary: Join Cubic Transportation Systems as a V&V Engineer, where you’ll play an important role in validating product functionality, identifying defects, and ensuring reliable, high-quality solutions for our customers.

In this role, you’ll work across manual testing, system-level validation, and Hardware-Software Integration Testing (H-SIT), collaborating closely with engineering teams to investigate issues and improve product quality. You’ll also have opportunities to contribute to test planning, requirements traceability, defect management, and customer-facing test reviews.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute tests: Develop test plans, test cases, and functional test specifications for subsystem, system, device, and end-to-end testing.
• Validate hardware and software integration: Perform H-SIT to verify that hardware and software components work together as expected.
• Drive product quality: Execute manual and exploratory tests, identify defects, investigate issues, and collaborate with development teams to resolve them.
• Manage testing activities: Track test progress, coordinate execution schedules, maintain requirements traceability, and report testing status, risks, and outcomes.
• Document and communicate results: Prepare test completion reports, daily status updates, and clear documentation of test findings.
• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with engineering teams, project stakeholders, and customers to support testing activities and resolve queries.
• Support customer-facing testing: Participate in test reviews and, where required, conduct testing in the presence of customers.
• Maintain test environments: Help configure and maintain test environments and support reliability and environmental testing activities.
• Share knowledge: Contribute to test documentation, training materials, and knowledge-sharing activities to strengthen team capabilities.
• Improve testing practices: Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, processes, and efficiency, including test automation where applicable.
• Support team development: Contribute to knowledge sharing, mentoring, and other team activities as needed.

Minimum Job Requirements:

Mandatory Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline, or relevant industry experience
• Two (2)+ years years of relevant experience in product testing, software QA, or a Verification & Validation (V&V) environment.
• Strong hands-on experience in manual testing and exploratory testing.
• Practical experience with Hardware-Software Integration Testing (H-SIT).
• Experience preparing, maintaining, and executing test cases and test plans.
• Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and software testing methodologies.
• Experience in defect reporting, tracking, and collaboration with development teams.
• Familiarity with test management and defect tracking tools such as Jira and TestRail.
• Good analytical, problem-solving, planning, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team.
• Working experience with Windows and Linux environments.

Desirable:

• Basic knowledge of physical devices and their testing.
• Exposure to API testing and database testing, including basic SQL queries.
• Experience with test automation tools such as Playwright or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and test-driven development.
• Basic UNIX commands, Linux shell scripting, and Confluence.
• Knowledge of Serial and TCP/IP communication protocols.
• Experience with product reliability, performance, or environmental testing.
• Familiarity with smart/payment card technology or public key encryption.
• Experience coordinating testing activities, mentoring team members, or supporting customer-facing reviews.
• ISTQB Foundation certification is desirable.

The 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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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.