Systems V&V Team Leader

Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal‑management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative‑energy powertrains. Serving two primary markets – passenger vehicle and commercial truck – Dana provides the world’s original‑equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.

Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered System & Software, driveline, sealing, and thermal‑management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative‑energy powertrains. Serving two primary markets – Light vehicle & commercial truck equipment – Dana provides the world’s original equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.

• Oversees direct report functions such as interviewing, selecting, training, supervising, evaluating performance, and/or developing staff, work schedules/vacations, and assignments; organizes staff meetings; coordinates continuing education training and in‑services for staff.
• Lead and be responsible for the overall System V&V Functional engineering team within the Global Software Organization to ensure quality work products are produced and provide evidence that aligns with ASPICE, ISO 26262, IATF‑16949, and ISO‑SAE‑21434 compliance.
• Work with the SW V&V team, Process, engineering program/project managers, SW stakeholders on a day‑to‑day basis in aligning with all functional Sys/SW features as part of the overall timing plan.
• Lead the overall V&V functional engineering team to ensure all validation deliverables meet the expected program timing plans, SOPs, and quality standards.
• Develop System V&V functional validation plan as part of capacity planning, decompose to sprint planning, development and properly execute all plans coverage features pertaining to the customer program milestones.
• Collaborate with engineering programs team and participate in internally/externally customers technical discussion (validation results, summary, final DVP & R, design changes request alignment internally/externally).
• Collaborate with Process/Automation and HIL Commission teams to align timing and bench needed as required to perform V&V functional validation pertaining to the program milestones.
• Lead overall System V&V functional team to meet technical, quality and program budget targets and support both external and internal audits as needed.
• Ensure bidirectional traceability from test case to Sys/SW requirements.
• Take part in various development and formal testing phases in the Sys/SW development life cycle.
• Execute all Sys qualification, Sys Interface, regression testing, & bug fixes validation.
• Support development and improvement of Sys/SW V&V methodologies and tools based on industry best practices.
• Ensure test cases are created/revised for the V&V requirements called out in the Sys/SW release plans.
• Support and align cross‑functional teams in development, root cause analysis.
• Review/record any test environment configuration changes.
• Coordinate/notify all test schedule changes with all impacted parties.
• Enter all noteworthy information into program test log (e.g., bench problems, hardware).
• Support/participate continual improvement with other V&V program leads, raising the effectiveness and efficiency of the team through the introduction of SW automation tools, methods and process improvements and coordinating with the Continuous Improvement product owners.
• Support a standard product methodology mindset, seek opportunities to re‑use solutions, improve quality and reliability whilst reducing the delivery timeline and associated costs.
• Understand the key milestones in the program plan, ensure that the plan correctly provisions for the required strategy/process/automation activities.
• Perform various technical duties in support of research activities.
• Perform other…