Senior Engineer, Functional Testing

Job description

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.   Who are we?   Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.  Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more! Who will you be working with? TCOS (Train Control Office Suite) team has dedicated group of professionals committed to delivering high-quality results. We have a diverse set of skills and experiences that allow us to tackle complex challenges. Through open communication and collaborative problem-solving, we continuously strive to improve our processes and outputs. The team is composed of individuals with expertise in areas such as software development & quality assurance. We work closely together to ensure seamless integration of our efforts. By leveraging each member's strengths, we can provide innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our stakeholders. Our shared passion for excellence drives us to go above and beyond in supporting the organization's objectives. How will you make a difference? As a Senior QA Engineer within the TCOS (Train Control Office Suite) team in the Signaling & Systems P&L under the Digital Intelligence group, you will play an important role in validating that our software products meet high standards of quality, reliability, and safety. You will be responsible for understanding requirements, designing and executing detailed test cases, validating key customer features, supporting regression testing, and contributing to integration, functional, and automation test coverage. Your role will require applying QA methodologies, quality engineering practices, automation tools, and CI/CD-based testing practices. We are looking for a quality-driven engineer who can translate requirements and system behaviours into clear, repeatable, and maintainable test solutions. In this position, you will work closely with developers, QA leads, architects, and product managers to identify risks, clarify requirements, validate fixes, and ensure quality is considered throughout the SDLC. As a senior engineer, you will contribute to test maturity by improving test coverage, supporting automation, sharing QA best practices with peers, and helping the team deliver reliable and maintainable software solutions.   What do we want to know about you? You must have below key skills or responsibilities: 1) Quality Strategy & Test Planning • Understand feature scope and identify quality risks, dependencies, and test coverage needs early. • Contribute to test strategy, scope, and risk-based coverage across functional, integration, and end-to-end workflows. • Create and maintain test plans, entry/exit criteria, and traceability from requirements to tests and defects. • Provide realistic test effort inputs and highlight schedule or quality risks in a timely manner. 2) Test Design & Documentation • Author clear, maintainable test cases for functional, regression, exploratory, edge case, and boundary-condition scenarios. • Define and maintain test data, environmental prerequisites, and test evidence required for effective validation. • Apply structured test design techniques such as equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables, and BDD/Gherkin where applicable. 3) Test Automation & Framework Contribution • Develop and maintain automated tests for UI, API, and integration layers using the team’s automation framework. • Implement reliable smoke, regression, and acceptance tests with maintainable locators, reusable utilities, and appropriate data strategies. • Support CI/CD execution by analyzing automation failures, improving stability, and reducing flaky tests. • Participate in reviews of test code and test design; follow automation standards and contribute improvements to the framework. 4) Test Execution & Quality Gates • Execute functional, integration, regression, and release validation testing across assigned features and workflows. • Support quality gates by providing accurate test status, defect trends, test evidence, and risk callouts before approvals. • Maintain and execute smoke/sanity suites to support rapid validation and release confidence. 5) Defect Management & Root Cause Analysis • Log and triage defects with precise reproduction steps, logs, screenshots, test data, and impact details for quick isolation. • Work with developers, QA leads, and product