Senior V&V Engineer — Safety Testing

Det-Tronics (Detector Electronics, LLC); Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

401(k) retirement plan

Generous PTO & holidays

Professional Growth & tuition support

Employee Assistance Program

Ownership Culture

Job summary

Det-Tronics, a global technology leader in industrial life safety, seeks a Sr. Verification & Validation Engineer in Minneapolis. You will lead V&V activities for NPD and sustaining projects, linking requirements to test cases, plans, and executions while developing test fixtures and automation.

The role involves hands-on testing, creating coverage reports, and maintaining certifications. Strong experience in safety standards and cross-functional collaboration is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience in testing electromechanical products.
• Experience with sustaining and new product development projects, and strong working knowledge of product development processes particularly verification and validation testing.
• Understand requirements in safety and performance standards and apply that knowledge in the evaluation of a product via technical analysis and/or testing.

Responsibilities

• Review Requirements for completeness (clarity, testability, and proper linkage to Test Cases) and provide input to other stakeholders including Design Engineers and Product Managers.
• Work with product development teams to ensure Sub-System Requirements traceability and Test Case coverage.
• Understand Customer and System Requirements and develop corresponding verification and validation Test Cases with proper linkage.
• Create Test Plans and Test Executions using different tools including Jira.
• Perform hands-on product testing by executing Test Cases, capturing and documenting test results and writing test reports.
• Generate Coverage and Traceability Reports in tools such as Jira to track progress in Requirement traceability, test case coverage and overall testing progress.
• Support the design and development of tests, test fixtures, and test automation. Maintain existing certifications, and support preparations for audits and participate in audits.
• Develop optimized design V&V and regression test plans based on risk assessments.
• Participate in process document reviews and editing to check their validity.
• Support internal test capability development efforts.
• Support root-cause investigations and activities for customer complaints and field issues.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to entry-level technicians and engineers as needed.
• Prioritize and manage work requests in an organized and timely manner.

Skills

Test planning & execution

Electromechanical testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Electrical Engineering or Physics degree (preferred)

Tools

Jira

R4J

Xray

Job description

Det-Tronics, a global technology leader in industrial life safety, seeks a Sr. Verification & Validation Engineer in Minneapolis. You will lead V&V activities for NPD and sustaining projects, linking requirements to test cases, plans, and executions while developing test fixtures and automation.

The role involves hands-on testing, creating coverage reports, and maintaining certifications. Strong experience in safety standards and cross-functional collaboration is essential.