Senior System Validation and Automation Engineer (Lead)

About Company:

One of the American manufacturers of backup power generation products for residential, light commercial and industrial markets.

An Ideal Candidate:

This lead role will oversee both manufacturing test and system validation functions within the Pune team. The person in this role will be responsible for standing up the system validation satellite lab in Pune and partnering closely with the US-based team to build out scalable automated test capability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering
• Proficiency in Python-based object-oriented programming
• Experience with GoLang, C#/.NET, SQL, Bash/Shell scripting, and automation-focused software design practices
• Working knowledge of the US residential electric grid and associated codes and requirements

Key Competencies:

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the build-out of the system validation satellite lab in Pune, working in close coordination with the US-based engineering team
• Design and deploy scalable automated test frameworks for high-coverage, system-level validation of electrical systems in lab and hardware-integrated environments
• Integrate test automation with lab instrumentation including power supplies, electronic loads, grid simulators, DAQs, oscilloscopes, relays, thermal chambers, and various communication interfaces
• Develop software for test orchestration, equipment control, data acquisition, fault injection, diagnostics, and automated reporting and visualization
• Build and maintain automation solutions that interface with hardware and embedded systems using field bus protocols
• Troubleshoot and diagnose complex issues across software, hardware, communications, and test infrastructure, identifying root causes and driving corrective actions to closure
• Expand the cloud data platform supporting test data management, and provide recommendations for ongoing improvement
• Collaborate cross-functionally with firmware, hardware, systems engineering, quality, and product teams to define requirements, improve test coverage, and support release readiness
• Establish and promote best practices for automation architecture, code quality, test design, data management, and scalable validation processes
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and technicians, growing the team's automation capability and engineering rigor.