Embedded Software Verification & Validation Engineer

Location: Herstal, Belgium; hybrid work with two remote-working days per week

Company

Engineering company delivering software, electronics, cybersecurity, embedded systems, IoT, and digital transformation services across regulated sectors including defense, aerospace, railway, automotive, medical, energy, and telecoms.

What you will do

• Analyze software and system requirements and define verification and validation activities.
• Develop and maintain test strategies, plans, cases, procedures, and automated test campaigns.
• Execute unit, integration, system, regression, qualification, and target-hardware integration tests.
• Investigate anomalies, reproduce issues, support root-cause analysis, and manage defect follow-up.
• Maintain bidirectional traceability between requirements, test cases, and results, and assess release readiness.
• Support qualification and certification activities, technical reviews, customer reporting, and continuous improvement of V&V methods and tools.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in embedded software testing and validation.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and V-Cycle methodology.
• Knowledge of software integration, system testing, software quality assurance, and requirements documentation.
• Familiarity with real-time systems, microcontrollers, embedded Linux, and RTOS.
• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools, including VectorCAST, Cantata, TestStand, Robot Framework or equivalent, and Jira, Azure DevOps, or Bugzilla.
• Ability to work with C, C++, Python, ARM-based systems, Git-based version control, and continuous integration tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, technical documentation, and reporting skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in defense, aerospace, railway, automotive, medical devices, or another regulated industry.
• Knowledge of DO-178C, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, EN 50128, or MISRA C/C++.
• Experience with automated testing and scripting, and familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop or software-in-the-loop environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time CDI employment with a human-sized, collaborative engineering environment.
• Additional legal days off and training opportunities.
• Mobility package covering transport or a car.
• DKV and group insurance, meal vouchers, and eco vouchers.
• Work on innovative projects with personalized employee follow-up and continuous skill development.