QA Engineer

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It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

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Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.

Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!

Role Summary/Purpose:

This role is responsible for the complete verification and validation efforts for Wabtec’s Locomotive Energy Management Product, Trip Optimizer. This individual will scope test plans, write test procedures, perform test execution and review and analyze results.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Review design requirements from system-level and subsystem-level design efforts to appreciate the design intent and ensure testability
• Using interaction matrices, identify relevant test cases / scenarios and document in a test plan
• Identify types of testing required, ranging from desktop verification, software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing, locomotive testing, and pilot fleet operation
• Provide estimates of testing duration as input to planning processes
• Thoroughly document all work outputs
• Hold design reviews for test plans & procedures, as well as for results reviews
• Creates, documents, and analyzes complex test cases and provides feedback and recommendations for product or design changes.
• Prepare and present technical results to internal and external customers as necessary
• Prepare invention disclosures to protect the technology that provides a competitive advantage to the business
• Drive process improvement within the team to improve quality, cost, and time-to-market for development efforts
• Participates in final system integration and validation to identify functional problems.
• Interacts with other engineering groups to define, document, analyze, perform, and interpret tests for products, systems, components, or modifications.
• Participate in simplification/productivity initiatives to drive efficiency improvements such as automation of testing

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Computer Engineering
• A minimum of 2 experience validating/testing software and software development
• Ability and willingness to travel as required

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong understanding of test execution, requirements traceability, defect reporting, & automation concepts
• Demonstrated initiative, resourcefulness, leadership, and interpersonal skills, with an ability to influence stakeholders, solve problems, and deliver results
• Effective verbal & written communicator
• Working knowledge of Matlab / Simulink
• Experience with design & validation of electro-mechanical systems, especially locomotive and/or off-highway vehicles and auxiliary systems
• Working knowledge of locomotives applications & software
• Ability to multi-task & prioritize effectively
• Team player with ability to work with minimal direction
• Strong organizational skills and prior success in working with or leading cross-functional teams

  Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity:

  Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.   

  To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the opportunity to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.

  We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences, and styles… People like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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