Senior Software Validation Engineer - Rail Infrastructure

Siemens Mobility; Homestead (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 109,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Software Validation Engineer to join their innovative team. In this pivotal role, you will design, develop, and support cutting-edge solutions for North American Rail Automation, collaborating with experts to enhance the Positive Train Control initiative. Your day-to-day will involve creating test plans, debugging complex issues, and leading a talented test team. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the future of rail transportation while enjoying a supportive environment that values growth and success. If you're eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic field, this role is for you.

Benefits

Health and wellness benefits

Annual incentive target

Opportunity for growth

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering field required.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and communication skills essential.

Responsibilities

• Assist with requirements review, analysis, and validation.
• Create and maintain Test plans and Test cases.
• Manage test team activities and participate in Agile ceremonies.

Skills

Debugging

Troubleshooting

Technical Writing

Communication Skills

Project Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering

Bachelor’s degree in software engineering

Tools

Unix

Git

Gitlab

Python

Shell scripting

Job description

At Siemens Mobility, we are at the forefront of innovation, crafting and manufacturing a wide range of rolling stock, including commuter and regional passenger trains, light rail and streetcars, metros, locomotives, passenger coaches, and high-speed trainsets. Our groundbreaking technology powers cities and railroads, providing traction-power substations, electricity transmission, and signaling and control systems for freight and passenger rail and transit systems. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a difference, this is the place for you!

As a Senior Software Validation Engineer, we invite you to join our team to design, develop, and support our vision for North American Rail Automation. You will collaborate with domain experts, architects, developers, and testers on the Siemens Back Office Server (BOS), a key component of the Positive Train Control (PTC) initiative. PTC is revolutionizing the rail transportation industry and will serve as a foundation for future technologies aimed at network optimization and autonomous rail networks.

What your day-to-day will look like:

• Assist with requirements review, analysis, specification, verification, and validation.
• Create, review, maintain, document and implement Test plans, Test cases, and other Customer deliverable items.
• Adhere to established guidelines and processes to meet technical standards and ensure maintainability.
• Demonstrate leadership skills and communicate complex and technical concepts effectively, both in writing and verbally.
• Debug, solve, and isolate hardware and software issues.
• Manage and assist the test team in their daily activities (Act as an advisor to junior engineers), including reviewing validation feedback, approving Pull Requests, and merging them to the master repository in Git.
• Plan work scope, estimates, and schedules for the test team based on sprints, deliver releases to customers, and estimate release dates based on defects and change requests.
• Participate in daily standup meetings, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, and Client defect triage meetings.
• Verify external defects logged by customers, reproduce them in the Test Environment, and work closely with the Development Team.
• Be able to understand and run non-functional tests and requirement traceability matrix.
• Be part of a 24x7x365 on-call rotation handling customer emergency support calls.

To thrive in this role, you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, computer, or software engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Unix environment and commands.
• Sound understanding of ISO QE standards.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent verbal communication, presentation, and technical writing skills.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.
• Proven experience in systems/software development and testing and project leadership.

It would be great if you had:

• Solid understanding of railroad software and systems or experience working in a federally regulated industry.
• Experience with containers, cloud environments, scripting in Python/shell, and Gitlab pipelines is a plus.
• Proficiency in C++ programming.

We aim to hire top talent and arm them with the opportunity to make top dollar. Can you see yourself learning, growing, and succeeding here? If so, we'd like to meet you!

This job is based in Pittsburgh, PA. We offer a variety of health and wellness benefits to employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html. The base salary range for this position in Pittsburgh, PA, is $109,100 - $147,200, and the annual incentive target is 10% of the base salary. The salary may be higher or lower depending on the budget and the candidate's experience, knowledge, skills, and qualifications.

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