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You understand how requirements, design choices, risks, and real-world use should shape a thorough and efficient V&V approach. Working across disciplines, you will clarify ambiguities surrounding V&V and turn them into practical test strategies which others can follow. You will use experimental design and statistical reasoning to select appropriate tests, interpret performance results, and support engineering decisions. You will also develop and improve test methods, validate those methods, support test tool qualification, and improve the effectiveness of test planning & execution.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nDeliver A Verified and Validated Product\nDefine and execute test strategies for system-level, integration, and hardware-level testing. Understand the end-to-end verification process which ultimately demonstrates the system meets all requirements.\nDevelop and maintain comprehensive V&V documentation, including but not limited to verification plans, verification protocols and reports, test method validations, traceability matrices, and risk assessments. Provide regular updates and communicate progress, findings, and recommendations to cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and management.\nDrive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the verification and validation process.\nEstablish alternative verification approaches, including inspection, verification via trace, design review, analysis, simulation, and or automated testing strategies which minimize manual testing effort while maintaining regulatory and quality compliance.\nUse Data and Statistics to Make Better Decisions\nCharacterize product performance (using statistical tools such as DOE, ANOVE, and Capability Analysis) to identify influential factors, meaningful operating ranges, sources of variation, and worst-case conditions. Use results to focus formal testing where it adds the most value.\nDefine and document defensible sample-size and analysis rationales based on risk, variability, available characterization or historical data, and the type of evidence needed.\nTurn data into actionable recommendations by distinguishing signal from noise, assessing performance margins, and communicating uncertainty and tradeoffs clearly to technical and nontechnical partners.\nDrive Product Quality Through Insight and Execution\nDevelop a deep understanding of product function, requirements, and design intent to assess the impact of changes and issues, shape test strategy, and build effective V&V plans.\nInvestigate unexpected results using structured problem-solving methods. Look beyond the immediate failure to identify root causes, contributing factors, and implications for product quality.\nDrive defects from identification through investigation, resolution, and verification, working across disciplines to turn findings into effective solutions.\nCommunicate findings and recommendations clearly, using evidence to help the team prioritize issues, and make informed decisions.\nAnticipate obstacles, unblock work, and find creative ways to meet challenging schedules while preserving the rigor and quality of V&V evidence.\nWhat You’ll Bring\nMinimum Requirements\nBachelor’s degree (or equivalent degree earned outside of the United States) in an engineering field and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree in an engineering field with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\nHands-on experience planning, developing, executing, and documenting verification or validation tests for complex products, with the 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