Validation & Verification Engineer TopSky One

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Your Role Working from our Melbourne Office in the World Trade Centre on Wurundjeri land, we have an opportunity for a Verification & Validation Engineer to support TopSKY, one of the key subsystems within the Civil Military Air Traffic Management System (CMATS). TopSKY provides the core Air Traffic Management functionality that enables the safe and efficient management of Australian airspace.

This is a 2-year fixed-term contract and offers the opportunity to work on one of Australia's most significant ATM programs alongside international, multidisciplinary teams and industry-leading subject matter experts.

Key Responsibilities As a V&V Engineer, you will help ensure the system is built correctly and meets its intended operational purpose. Working within a complex, software-intensive, safety-critical environment, you will plan, execute, and support testing activities that contribute to safer, more efficient air traffic management.

Verify the solution's compliance against functional and system requirements

Validate the system's fitness for purpose against operational concepts and user needs

Contribute to requirements analysis, ensuring requirements are testable and verification approaches are clearly defined

Develop, execute, and document verification and validation activities in line with project schedules

Perform system integration, verification, and validation testing across complex software-intensive systems

Support Acceptance Verification & Validation (AV&V) activities with customers

Analyse test results, identify defects, and support investigation and resolution activities

Participate in requirements reviews, test procedure reviews, and technical workshops with customers, suppliers, and project stakeholders

Communicate testing progress, risks, issues, and outcomes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Your Experience On day one in this role, we'll expect you to bring the following skills, experience and behaviours:

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience) 5+ years experience in Verification & Validation, Test Engineering, Systems Integration & Test, or a related discipline

Strong understanding of the software development…