Quality Assurance Engineer
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with systems and software engineers to define verification and validation scope.
- Analyze requirements and develop test plans, strategies, cases, and procedures with requirements traceability.
- Design and execute functional, integration, system, regression, and release validation tests.
- Establish laboratory test environments and test benches and identify required hardware.
- Troubleshoot hardware, software, protocol, and test setup issues and support root cause analysis.
- Execute testing of RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, TCP/IP, UDP, Ethernet, Modbus, and RF interfaces.
- Use protocol analyzers, packet sniffers, serial analyzers, and debugging tools for protocol verification.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts using Python, LabVIEW, TestStand, or similar tools.
- Log, analyze, track, and verify software defects through closure.
- Prepare test reports and objective verification and validation evidence.
- Participate in technical reviews, quality improvements, process compliance, and testability initiatives.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide guidance on testing methodologies and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline from a recognized university.
- Academic performance of at least 70%.
- 4–6 years of experience in Software Verification & Validation, Software Testing, or System Validation.
- Experience in railway, locomotive, aerospace, automotive, industrial automation, or another safety-critical domain.
- Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Life Cycle.
- Experience with requirements-based testing and defect management processes.
- Familiarity with software test design methodologies and verification techniques.
- Experience with requirements and test management tools such as DOORS, IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM/CLM), IBM Quality Manager, ALM, or equivalent tools.
- Working knowledge of user interface testing and system-level validation.
- Hands-on experience with automation tools and scripting languages such as Python, LabVIEW, TestStand, or similar technologies.
- Experience with communication protocols and networking concepts.
- Familiarity with continuous integration and automated test execution environments.
- Experience working in Agile development environments.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to mentor junior engineers and support team growth; cybersecurity testing and secure communication validation experience is an added advantage.