GE Vernova

Principal Engineer – Verification, Validation & Test Automation

GE Vernova

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Markham • United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Define, maintain, and enforce V&V strategy, technical standards/rules, and best practices.
  • Ensure V&V strategies are aligned with product requirements, operating profiles, and customer use cases.
  • Act as Design Authority for V&V, test automation, and performance verification approaches.
  • Chair and lead verification and performance-focused design reviews.
  • Review and approve test architectures, performance test plans, and readiness for major milestones.
  • Provide formal technical sign-off for V&V and performance readiness.
  • Lead architecture and evolution of automated test frameworks supporting functional and performance validation and verification.
  • Define scalable test infrastructure capable of validating real-world product workloads.
  • Drive automation across: Unit and component testing and system-level test environments Automated performance, stress, and endurance testing.
  • Analyse verification gaps, defect escape data, and field feedback to identify systemic issues.
  • Improve early detection of performance and integration defects.
  • Define and track metrics for verification effectiveness, including performance-related escapes.
  • Lead or support investigation of performance-related and system-level issues discovered during development or in deployed products.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) from an accredited college or university.
  • Significant and demonstrated years of experience in verification, validation, and test automation for embedded or industrial systems.
  • Proven experience verifying product-level performance in real-time systems.
  • Expertise designing automated test frameworks, including performance and stress testing.
  • Demonstrated success reducing performance-related defect escapes.
  • Experience acting as a technical authority in a global organisation.
  • Excellent communication and technical leadership skills in a global, matrixed organisation.
Benefits
  • Competitive benefits, and great development opportunities - including private health insurance.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
verificationvalidationtest automationautomated test frameworksperformance testingstress testingdefect analysismetrics trackingsystem-level testingreal-time systems
Soft Skills
communicationtechnical leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingorganizational skillsattention to detailadaptabilitydecision-makinginfluencing