What you will do / Key Responsibilities
Test Strategy & Project Ownership
• Own and drive the testing strategy across the project lifecycle.
• Define and manage test approaches, test plans, test readiness criteria, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure testing activities are aligned with project requirements, system specifications, and customer expectations.
• Lead operational scenario validation to ensure the system performs effectively under realistic operating conditions.
• Approve test readiness and ensure required prerequisites are in place before testing activities commence.
• Lead and coordinate FAT, IHT, SFT, SAT, and other system acceptance activities as applicable.
• Monitor overall testing progress and provide clear reporting to project leadership.
Customer & Stakeholder Management
• Lead customer test workshops and facilitate technical discussions related to system testing and acceptance.
• Act as the key testing interface between the customer and internal engineering teams.
• Present test results, issues, risks, and mitigation plans to relevant stakeholders.
• Manage expectations and ensure alignment between customer requirements and testing outcomes.
• Participate in engineering discussions, design reviews, and system-level technical meetings.
Multidisciplinary Integration
• Coordinate testing activities across software, controls, electrical, mechanical, simulation, and other engineering disciplines.
• Drive system integration activities and ensure interfaces between disciplines are properly validated.
• Coordinate resolution of complex cross-disciplinary defects and technical issues.
• Guide Test Integration Engineers and provide functional leadership to the testing team.
• Support and mentor junior engineers and promote consistent testing practices.
Risk Management & Continuous Improvement
• Identify testing-related project risks and support the development of mitigation and contingency plans.
• Drive defect investigations and ensure critical issues are followed through to resolution.
• Identify opportunities to improve testing processes, tools, methodologies, and system validation.
• Promote standardisation and reuse of test procedures and best practices across projects.
• Ensure complete and accurate test documentation and project handover deliverables.